Connecticut Fly Angler

 Spring 2023 is in the books now as the most frustrating herring run year of my short time chasing this sometimes magical event. It had its ...

Another herring run has come and gone here in Connecticut. In April the alewives came in moderate numbers, danced their dance, drew in all t...

 Once each spring, I make a run north to get on the American shad run. The American shad draw big striped bass, just as the river herring do...

 The herring run isn't a singular event, but rather a series of waves or pulses of fish entering the system. Moon phase, temperature, an...

 There is no short cut to catching large striped bass on foot on the fly. I've found it to be one of the most difficult pursuits in fish...

 Some nights spent pursuing the herring run are very slow, even if those herring are in fact present. There are swirls and splashed of alewi...

 I didn't really target stripers this winter. I didn't feel I could justify my want to catch some in the face of clear evidence that...

 Spring is here in New England, and so continues my love letter series to my favorite time of year.  Before chances of stripers eating river...

The gently undulating body of a dying sea lamprey brushed against my leg, as blind to the fact that I was a living organism as it was to the...

Each year I make one trip up to Massachusetts to fish for American shad. It's a something of a rebellion trip, because a lot of people g...

Every season has its night. Unfortunately, "the night" of herring season 2020 was equivalent to many nights in 2017, a few in 2018...