Our goal is to fly fish for wild trout on as many flows as we can in the state of Pennsylvania. My son and I unofficially started our quest in 2017 but soon realized it would be cool to make it a little more “official” by starting this blog to chronicle our progress toward the goal. We are hoping to do a minimum of 10 new waters each year. The blog posts below represent our “official” trip to a particular flow that we count toward “The Quest”. Enjoy!
I flew to California to spend some time with my son for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We plan to fish the wild trout sections of the Truckee River and the East Carson River on this trip. Our base of operations is South Lake Tahoe so that means we will need to travel through a number of …
On this particular day, the river was unfishable by most standards and only a couple bank eddies provided a thin sliver of opportunity. Even in those "spots", I dared not wade out into the water more than a step or two. Just enough room for some semblance of a poor roll cast weaving my body, …
The first day of trout season was bitter sweet this year. My son who has lived in PA for the past two years will be headed back to California tomorrow to resume his life there. I am thankful for the many fishing memories that we have made over the past two years. He is a …
Long hikes and big brown trout
Thanksgiving morning trip to my boyhood fishing haunt.
Wild Trout Chronicles 