Patrick and Anthony are two of MA’s newest guides, specializing in everything from trout to stripers with an emphasis on conservation and teaching the next generation of anglers. Both are hardcore, fishing many times a week regardless of the conditions, and have a lot of experience on Massachusetts waters. Additionally, Patrick and Anthony are Swift
Category: Interviews
Interview: Dan Trela of Trela Custom Rods
If you are fishing a river and no one else is catching except for one angler, who is fishing small dry flies, that likely is Dan Trela. If you are fishing the Swift River and someone is catching fish, chances are that someone is fishing a fly purchased from Dan. He also makes custom fly
Interview: Mark Longmire, Syndicate
Over the past year, there’s one fly rod company about which I keep hearing over and over: Syndicate. Competitive anglers are raving about their “tightline nymphing” fly rods for being incredible and priced below competitors’ products. So, I reached out to them and am grateful that co-founder Mark Longmire agreed to be interviewed. Mark has
Interview: Phil Monahan of Orvis
Phil in Norway If you follow social media for fly fishing, one name appears over and over again: Phil Monahan. He’s the person in charge the Orvis fly fishing blog, among other many responsibilities. So, I dug around and learned that he is a former guide, previously edited “American Angler,” and is a passionate fisherman,