Experimenting With Video

For about a year now I have been trying to use my camera as a video camera. Several small clips have turned out to be "say not to bad". I'd like to share them with you over the next few weeks.

This is a CT stream with a series of beautiful waterfalls.

Soft-hackle fly fishing on a small stream.

Mother's Day

I would like to wish all moms out there a very Happy Mother's Day.

The day was set aside to bring attention to show the enormous value and influence Mothers have on  us. So everyone please take a moment to think back on the Moms in our lives and say "Thank you Mom.

Small Stream Journal 5-12-17 Let's Celebrate

I had a few hours around mid-day and chose to fish a stream close by. It took a half hour to get there and a minute later I was geared up and making my first cast. There is a little undercut with a nice tree above that I like to make my first cast, the reason it generally holds a fish or two and it did not change any from previous times.

A few casts and I was into my first brookie of the day.

He was a spirited jewel and he moved around that little stream like a fast train. He actually plowed through a leaf jam in his quest to shake the hook.

A new fly that was tried for the first time by me. The pattern has been around for years. I noticed it in a book of "North Country Flies" more on it later.

The prettiest brook trout of the day. She took a liking to that sexy color blue and said I must have it.

A Lady Slipper. It will probably bloom on Mother's Day.

What better way to celebrate such a grand day.

Sudbury Valley Trustees, The Brook Trout has Another Friend

Yesterday after a considerable amount of time I paid a visit to the Sudbury Valley Trustees Memorial Forest conserved property. This trip was planned I guess from the first time I had a conversation with a board member who is Bruce Osterling. The conversation was about several wild brook trout streams mere miles from metro Boston. My ears perked up and I just had to see this. Bruce and I met at a local Starbucks and discussed our plans for the day. After that strong jolt of caffeine we head to the home base of the SVT. It's a beautiful old farm that has gone under some updating but still very much retains it's original charm. It was here where we met the Executive Director of SVT, Lisa Vernegaard. She was very gracious and spent some time telling me about the work of SVT various properties and highlighting the one we were to visit today. I was very appreciative of the way their mission was laid out to me.

Then it was time to head out to the "Forest"....a lovely drive and we were there.

This place is an incredible habitat. You can not look in any one direction and not see beauty.

This is a seep...there are brook trout that use this "above, and below ground" waterway.

It would not be New England without old stone walls.

A wild brook trout stream...cooled by underground springs that keep the water in the 50's even in the summer. I could not get in there to fish for I was not in waders.

In areas I could access I was able to coax a few fish.

My guide for the day, a very knowledgeable Bruce Osterling.

There are not many cold water stream in eastern Massachusetts, but this is one of them. I can't say thanks enough to the people who work so hard to preserve this area, and others like it. The brook trout needs as many friends as he can get, and Sudbury Valley Trustees are a "Best Friend"

One of several brought to hand this day...a true wild New Englander, a native and a friend.

More information here...http://www.svtweb.org/news/brook-trout-memorial-forest