I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn’t take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.
I’d love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn’t brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.
I live in a beautiful part of the world – western New Hampshire along the Baker River – and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
I’ve never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful – a sunset, a moose, an elephant – and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That’s always struck me as strange.
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking – plenty of it.
I’ve taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.