Fishing

Find the food, and the right living conditions, or water temperature, and you'll find fish and success.  When I first started fishing the big lakes many years ago, my greatest mentor in learning the basics of the art was the legendary guide Art Libby.

Through years of experience I've learned there are some basic rules which govern your success or failure when fly fishing for brook trout. And no, I don't mean the garden variety of six to 10-inch specimens found in most Maritime ponds and streams

I HAVE FISHED the Dungarvon River many times in the months of July and August and have taken salmon and grilse in different conditions with various kinds of fly-hook combinations and strategies. I have also fished here in May with expectations of those early-run large salmon that challenge the turbulence of the little river. I've taken trout at this time, in the half pound class, and many smaller.

White: symbol of purity. Well, sometimes. For as we all know, appearance and reality are frequently divorced, and, well, meringue often covers lemon. And so it has been in my relationship with alabaster patterns. At times, as trout after trout was seduced, so was I-but then, for no apparent reason, the next time I staked my fortunes on white, it betrayed me utterly.