I read somewhere that gardening has now surpassed angling as the most popular pastime in Canada among men. This is a sad claim and something that must have to do with the state of our fisheries, and also with the state of our male population. Read the rest of this entry »

Rarely do the laws of nature and man combine to create an enduring accessible resource for the shared benefit of “everyman- ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’” Read the rest of this entry »

Today fly fishing is much less about fishing and way more about the ritual of celebrating an atavism mostly faded from modern memory. New Brunswick is blessed with countless gravel bed gin clear or stout colored boreal rivers flowing to the North Atlantic. Most are gentle in their grade and flow – long gone the alpine gorges. Read the rest of this entry »