A
Brief History of Atlantic Salmon in Western Mass.
©2006
By Joe Overlock
For this months article I thought it would be fun to
look into the history of Atlantic Salmon here in Western Massachusetts.
As many of you already know, Atlantic Salmon used to dominate
our streams here in New England. The early settlers made reports
of salmon runs so large that they would fill up entire rivers.
Farmers would use pitch forks to spear the salmon and toss them
on the river banks by the hundreds...
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Rod
Review: W.W.
Grigg GX706-5, 7 Foot 6 in. 4/5 Weight 2 piece
Estimated retail price: $50
©2005
By Joshua Field
About five months
ago I read a positive review for an extremely inexpensive graphite rod
by W.W.Grigg that someone had purchased for their son only to find that
it was such a competent caster that they claimed it for themselves. Curiosity
got the better of me and I went out searching the web for this rod. It
turned out to be surprisingly difficult to find...Read
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The Deerfield
River continues to be pillaged
By Dave Willette
North Adams Transcript
5/7/2005
The Deerfield River serves many purposes
to many people, and most of these users aren't aware they
are ruining this
beautiful waterway. The river has three major by-products:
enjoyment, economic impact, and, of course, electricity generating
power. ...Read
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Born-again
Bamboo
By Matt Alibozek (Berkshire Fly Fishers
Member)
My step-grandfather Ellwood started taking me fishing when I was about twelve
years old. He would pick me up at 6:00 a.m. sharp and we would be off to
one of our favorite local small streams to see if we could catch some trout....Read
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Is
this fly-fishing for dummies or is it just me?
By Johnnie Carrier (Berkshire
Fly Fishers Member - North
Adams, MA)
I just wanted to
try fly-fishing that’s all. It looked beautiful. Like
a wisp floating over the fisherman’s head. Flying out
to a projected target. The bait floats out and on the water
and then the strike, like an explosion under water; the result
is the means of all the other functions...Read
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The
art of selecting the right fly
By Jonathan
Cherneff
From
40 cents to $4,000, from super-realist to impressionist
to post-modern, from Catskill flies tied in Sri Lanka to
the flies of the English peerage to those of an American
pioneer, there is a fly for every budget and for every
fly fisher, but do the fish really care? Read
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The
Hendricksons on the Housatonic
By Jonathan Cherneff
Rolling
down his car window, a man shouts to an angler hip-deep
in the Housatonic River, "Any sign of the Hendricksons?" Now,
anyone in these parts, who is wearing neoprene waders and
wielding a fly rod, knows the Hendricksons. Nope, the Hendricksons
are not some tourists who have gone missing since their
canoe flipped. Neither are they the folks who opened the
new cafe down at the bridge. The Hendricksons are bugs. Read
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Michael Pegorari fishes the Housatonic in Stockbridge along
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