Wondering if anyone can help me choose a good line. My first intention for my St. Croix is the South Branch, not for trout, not a 7 wt for that, but smallmouth bass, since there are some big ones I'm after. My second intention--it will come later--is the Salmon River in NY for steelhead. If I...

No directions w/our new Flyrise 3 reels on how the drag works, nor could I find any instructions online. Have never needed a drag fly fishing, besides once w/a guide. There's a knob on the right when the reel is positioned to reel from the left, loosens & tightens, but the spool does not give...

My son & I fly fished redfish behind Isle of Palms, SC, recently. The first one I hooked was more than 10 pounds, the largest fish I've ever had on a fly rod. Here the water was clear; I saw the fish approach with two others just as big. Since we had been practicing our double hauling on a...

https://www.google.com/#q=lake+musconetcong+suffers+weed+killer Agree with me or not, I'm convinced the weed killer in Lake Musconetcong destroys the lake and makes the situation worse for the Musconetcong River below. Read the article I posted the link to. The water is ugly. Surely it's...

One of my brother's wife & daughter sighted a fisher cat in Wall Twnsp. It's a large member of the weasel family, sort of like a wolverine, made high pitched cries. They ran home & looked it up online, amazed. This specie was extinct in NJ, due to all the clear cutting for iron mining, 1800's...

I just bought a TFO Signature 6 ft, 2 weight rod & Ross Flyrise, thanks to Brk Trt, and I'm not sure which 2 weight line to buy for the reel, other than it should be a floating tapered line. What brand does anyone suggest? Even though I've fly fished some since I was 10, I'm still a novice at...

I got word today from Raritan River Headwaters Association that 4500 gallons of ammonium nitrate spilled into the S. Branch below Califon. A farmer was having his fertilizer tank filled. What will this do to trout and smallmouth bass, I wonder? The news flash from RRHA didn't say, but that it is...

Has anyone fly fished the Paulinskill Gorge? I'm thinking of hiking in, in May. How long & strenuous to get to it? Are there enough holdover and wild browns for good fishing despite the lack of stocking projected for this spring?