Armand Courchaine, master Fly Tyer of Marlboro will be sharing some of his secrets to motivate freshwater Bass to make that critical error in judgment. As the waters warm up, it would be timely to refocus from trout and stripers to large and smallmouth bass in some of the great ponds of the Nor’East region….
Continue reading →Charlie Costello started fishing as a boy growing up in Rockport, Massachusetts. Has fly fished all of his life and traveled to many great fly fishing destinations. He regularly travels to Iceland to fish for salmon, brown trout and Atlantic salmon. He will present a slideshow of some of his fishing adventures on Iceland’s northern…
Continue reading →The Nor’East Chapter will host Ron Lasko from Cape Cod and author of “A Tale of Two Rivers.”If you share our sea-run fever for restoring local salter trout populations, you will not want to miss this lecture on fishing the Quashnet and Mashpee Rivers of Cape Cod. Ron Lasko will discuss his passion for these rivers,…
Continue reading →Owners of the North Country Angler in North Conway, New Hampshire. Bill and Janet will present Fly Fishing the Eastern Slope of the New Hampshire White Mountains covering the home waters he has fished for over thirty years, including the Saco, Ellis, Wildcat and Swift Rivers. He’ll also talk about Mountain Pond and the Androscoggin…
Continue reading →Monster Brookies and Pike were on display within Robin Reeve’s informative talk and slide show on fishing in Labrador. This early season imagery got many of our members yearning to hit the water. The Orvis store made us very comfortable and provided wonderful food and beverages to the membership. There was a discount provided to…
Continue reading →In an effort to switch things up a bit, the chapter will hold its April 1st Chapter Meeting at the Orvis Store at the North Shore Mall. Our speaker for the evening is Robin Reeve. As managing partner of Three Rivers Lodge, Robin has spent the last fifteen summers along fertile rivers of the Labrador…
Continue reading →The chapter enjoyed a very innovative talk by Jim MacCartney on mobile wood deployment in trout streams that uses half man and half mother nature technique to naturally deploy cover for improved trout habitat. Thanks also to Jim MacDougall for providing some highlight photos of the meeting.
Continue reading →Join us this month for a presentation by Jim MacCartney, River Restoration Director for Trout Unlimited (TU). Jim works nationwide on a variety of river restoration projects including stream crossing remediation, channel restoration, bank stabilization, habitat enhancement, dam removal, and watershed assessment. Before joining TU, he worked for the NH Department of Environmental Services where…
Continue reading →Thanks again to Kalil Boghdan who drew a standing room only crowd at our February meeting. His presentation about stirper fishing in the Essex, Parker, Merrimack and Ipswich estuaries was very informative and made everyone in the room long to be in the salt casting to a boil with birds above. His extensive knowledge and…
Continue reading →Photo: Lakewood Camps Join us this month for a presentation on fishing Maine’s Rapid River, presented by Whit Carter of Lakewood Camps. The big fishing attraction at Lakewood Camps is the Rapid River. Named the best natural brook trout stream in the lower 48 states, and listed as one of the top 100 best places…
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