Already!  If you find yourself face with the opener for trout a week away and an empty fly box, I might be able to help.  I just finished tying 50 #10 BH flasback Hare’s ears and I’m moving back to BH woolly buggers.  These are great early season patterns.  If you need these or any other flies give me a call. 802-989-0398.

Don’t forget this Sunday the 4th Annual Festival of Fly Fishing is being held at the Shelburne Field House located on Athletic Drive in Shelburne Village. For Directions  and event details go to http://www.flyfestvt.com/.

Mark the date for this years Festival of Fly Fishing.  This event gets better and better each year.  There are some of the best fly fishers in Vermont giving instruction and insight on all aspects of the sport.  This year I’ll be giving casting instruction, so stop by and say hello!

Now that I am done stuffing the stockings of lucky anglers with fly assortments for the up coming season.  I am busy with Clients orders who were not so lucky, and filling boxes for Stream and Brook guides.  While I am at it , I’d like to offer “Fly’s for a Buck” .  This weeks fly is the Muddler Minnow.

I also own the Gladstone House in North River NY that I rent.  It sleeps 10-12, and  it’s a great location for both Alpine (20min. to Gore Mt.) and X-country ( out the door to 50k at Garnet Hill) skiers.  I still have prime dates for the rest of the winter.  Mention Castaway flies or Stream and Brook and get a 10% discount on your stay.

http://www.adkbyowner.com/listings/VR5260.html

All of us at Castaway Flies & Stream and Brook Fly Fishing would like to wish everyone a festive Holiday season. We should all be thankful for time spent with family and friends. While your enjoying the harvest and fermentation’s of the season, don’t forget to mention that the gift giving season is coming and that Stream and Brook has gift certificates available.   A Stream and Brook gift certificate makes a great gift for the angling enthusiast.  No matter what your fly fishing experience, you will enjoy a day spent with one of our guides. You can learn how to fly fish with a 2 day school, or experience new water, techniques and strategies, or fish for different species with half or full day trip. Gift certificates are always available, however if you purchase before January 1st 2013, you’ll get 2012 rates.
Flies make great gifts as well. So, if you’re securing a guide for a day of fishing doesn’t work out, the next best thing is an assortment of  Castaway Flies “Guide Flies”. These are the flies that our guides say” gotta have” in the box.

For more information contact me.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

That’s a moto that I live by from Oct. – Dec.. Just because the reg. season has closed, doesn’t mean you can’t fish. In fact, if you don’t hunt, fishing has been great and there are still waters that are open year round CR/ALO. For those of you who don’t hunt, and wish you could fish all your favorite water year round. There has been much talk about an “Off season” license. Still CR/ALO, but for anglers willing to gear up when temps are freezing, could be a good thing for all involved. If you are interested in such a license let Fish and Wildlife know. As for me, I turn my sights to hunting, however that doesn’t mean I won’t fish. I always hope to score early so I can do other things. It would be great to continue fly fishing on my favorite water.
As for weather, SS Sandy continues to effect our weather. I have recieved just under an inch of rain in Westford, from 5 days of Sandy.
Nothing heavy here, but the Browns River and Lamoille in Fairfax are up and dirty. Now that she is pulling away we will be getting some of the chillest weather of the season with snow possible over the weekend.
Salmon and Steelhead fishing has been on fire where you can find open water with good clarity. Nymphs have ruled over streamers. Small BHCopper Johns, BHGoldstones and Hare’s ears.
My reports will become even more infrequent, but I will let you know if I’ve been out and what I know and hear. Make sure to check out the my Fly Tying Club this winter. This is when I do 90% of my fly tying for individual clients and Stream and Brook Guide Service looking to stock up for next year. It’s your opertunity to get flies our guides use for a “Buck a Fly”.