Right on the Fly

17/04/2025

The Sea-Run Trout’s Return to Wellfleet
Understanding a subspecies that starts in fresh water but needs access to the sea

BY JIM GILBERT via provincetownindependent

https://provincetownindependent.org/news/economy/fisheries/2025/04/09/the-sea-run-trouts-return-to-wellfleet/

In May 1840, a small group of sport fishermen set out from Newport, R.I. in search of sea-run brook trout. Traveling first by ferry, then by coach and horseback, and […]

01/04/2025

Unmatching the Hatch
By Mike Lawson via MidCurrent

https://midcurrent.com/techniques/unmatching-the-hatch/

29/03/2025

Nice piece on the Connetquot!

https://www.thefisherman.com/article/the-connetquot-sacredness-in-suburbia/

You'll never forget it. It’s magical, and it happens here, on the Conny.

24/03/2025

World Championship Winning Flies: Howard Croston's Mass Attack Caddis

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1MAjf6ps-PU

In this fly tying tutorial Fulling Mill Technical Manager Steve Carew walks us through tying Howard Croston's Mass Attack, which is a caddis dry fly that he ...

20/03/2025

Fly Tying 101: All About Thread
By Jason Freund

https://www.thescientificflyangler.com/post/fly-tying-101-all-about-thread

Thread is the most essential of fly tying materials (assuming you don't count the hook as a material). Fly tying thread's role is pretty simple, it covers the hook and lashes material to that hook. And it sounds pretty simple but, of course, fly tyers make it a lot more complex. To simplify, there a...

21/11/2024

As if the NY water system didn’t have enough issues…

05/09/2024

More information on Delaware Aqueduct Shutdown

https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/whats-new/delaware-aqueduct-shutdown-impact-upstate.page

In June 2024, we anticipate entering the last phase of a $1 billion project to repair the longest tunnel in the world—the Delaware Aqueduct. We will be connecting a newly constructed 2.5-mile bypass tunnel to structurally sound portions of the existing Delaware Aqueduct, permanently conveying wate...

05/09/2024

Feel like this has definitely been effecting water levels!

The Longest Tunnel in the World Is Being Fixed Under Newburgh

By Jonah via wrrvradio

https://wrrv.com/longest-tunnel-delaware-aqueduct-project-newburgh-ny/

The massive billion-dollar project is happening right under our feet

02/09/2024

“Too hot for trout: Why some anglers are rethinking their approach to fly fishing”

By Nathan Rott via NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/31/g-s1-19833/fishing-angling-trout-montana-water-climate-change-blackfoot-river

As Western Montana's blue-ribbon trout waters warm due to climate change, anglers are increasingly wrestling with the ethics of their sport.