I just got back from Blackville, New Brunswick. I drove up last Thursday, and fished Friday – opening day of the Miramichi salmon season – and Saturday before coming home this morning.  The fishing was as good as I’ve had in the 15 or so years that I’ve been going up.  I’m sure it doesn’t compare to the good old days when the Miramichi was thought to have had regular runs of several, …Read More →

Yesterday it was summer, or at least it felt and smelled that way out of doors here in Falmouth, Maine. This morning I had a tree swallow in the field near my house.  It is not the earliest I have had them, but it is a few days earlier than normal.  All the warmth is going away tonight, and we even have some snow forecast on Monday and Tuesday.  In Blackville, New Brunswick there, …Read More →