Fishing
This is the type of knot that you use to attach more tippet to your leader.
What is a surgeon's knot?
This rule for casting is also the same rule for driving a car.
What is "hands at 10 and 2"?
Central England is known as the birthplace of this specific type of fishing. Not just "fly fishing" but this more specific term.
What is "dry" fly fishing?
This is a 149 mi (240 km) long river in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut, United States.
What is the Housatonic?
This body of water is where the Housatonic River empties out.
What is the Connecticut Sound?
These subsurface flies act as larvae.
What are nymphs?
We get a glimpse into the culture of this state, where the story takes place.
What is Montana?
Rivers in England have different qualities, but they are often called this type of stream, named after the makeup of their beds.
What are "chalk" streams?
This river is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south largely through eastern New York state. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains at Henderson Lake in the town of Newcomb, and flows south to New York Bay, a tidal estuary between New York City and Jersey City, before draining into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Hudson?
If you got into a raft and headed straight south on the Housatonic, you would eventually reach the confluence of this river.
What is the Ten Mile?
If we rig a dry fly with an underneath nymph also tied onto the same line, it is called this.
What is a "dry dropper?"
Paul and Norman's father is a minister in this denomination.
What is Presbyterian?
Isaak Walton wrote this text, considered the holy bible of modern fly fishing.
What is the "compleat angler"?
This river is a 23-mile, historically significant waterway flowing from Westchester County to the East River, famously known as New York City's only freshwater river.
What is the Bronx River?
One notable native of these waters was Chief Squantz of this tribe, who still holds a portion of the former reservation on the west side of the Housatonic River, in what is now called the town of Kent. Hint: we have a road named after it...
What is Schaghticoke?
This form of cast is primarily used in tight places which is why its associated with this motion...
What is "roll" cast?
The story takes place on the Elkhorn River as well as this river, which is also the name of an indigenous tribe from the area.
What is the Big Blackfoot River?
Isaak Walton had a friend and collaborator who helped him with his writings. He also wrote one of the first books on gambling...
Who is Charles Cotton?
This river in Ontario, Canada is situated nearby to the hamlet Avening, as well as near Banda. Close to Creemore...
What is the Mad River?
The Blackberry river in Canaan, CT is an example of this, a term for a smaller river that flows into a bigger one.
What is a tributary?
In bait fishing, it's called a "bite," and in fly fishing, it's called this...
Norman Maclean grew up out west but spent a huge part of his career as a professor at this midwest university.
What is the University of Chicago?
What is the River Dove?
This river is a major North American waterway flowing roughly 740–800 miles northeast from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean, acting as the Great Lakes' primary outlet.
What is the Saint Lawrence?
The Housatonic river's name is derived from the Mohican phrase "usi-a-di-en-uk", translated as this.
What is "beyond the mountain place" or "river of the mountain place"