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The Perfect Conditions

The best time to go fishing is when you can. Despite all the advice from the experts in the magazines about planning and predicting the perfect conditions, this is the mantra of the working class angler. That is not to say that some times are not better than others. But the truth is for the …

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Coming in from the cold

  This past weekend Keystone Fly Guides returned to the frigid shores of lake Erie for more fly n fin pursuits. Unfortunately conditions did not change much sine the prior week and the creeks were mostly low and clear. Fortunately this was also the weekend of PaFlyFish.com Steelhead Jam! Misery may love company but with …

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Clearly Scared: a Lake Erie steelhead halloween on the fly

This past weekend I made my annual Halloween pilgrimage to Erie,  PA in search of shadowy ghosts who rise from the depths of the lake and haunt the waters of the tributaries through the winter. Unlike many of my impromptu trips throughout the year this one was planned and I had company. For the past …

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