Fishing

Brookies: healthier than imagined?

For more than 30 years, brook trout have been protected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Keeping a brook trout anywhere in the park has been prohibited since 1976, and some brook trout streams were closed to fishing altogether. […]

General

Listen, kids: Father’s Day near

Every year as the end of May approaches, I struggle with Father’s Day presents — not the ones my kids get me, but the annual walk through sporting goods stores trying to figure out what my father needs. […]

Fishing

Don’t Bank on Shallow Bite

It’s so easy, sometimes, to fish the bank. You can see everything you want to throw at; you can make shorter, more accurate casts; and when you catch fish, that’s even better. […]