It’s been a fruitless and frustrating start to trout catching for me this year. Just hours after making the “threat” of giving all of my fly fishing gear away to Sam, we find a couple of really beautiful brook trout. Result: I’m keeping my gear.

My good luck guy and main Netter…pictured here having narrowly missed a bevy of fly fishing hand-me-downs and a fish of his own.

The luck of a Grandfather and a well chosen fly…