After several attempts to retire, I am an author!

Retirement is easy, I can quit whenever I choose. Not so! I have retired several times, but now I find myself an author. I have published several articles on Associated Content. Also, I am a full professor at the Trout University where I have written several on line classes for teaching the art of trout fishing. So, now I am working on the computer about six hours per day and I have applied for a part time job outside the home as well.

North Carolina Trout Fishermen Prefer Pizza

Yes, it is somewhat secret and most will not readily admit it, but the preferred food after a tough day in the NC mountains is; you guess it Pizza! Personally, I have never considered it a sucessful trout fishing trip until I have hungrily downed my share of pizza washed down with Coke. However, I have learned that some other fishermen have the same appetite as well.

Orvis Helios Fly Fishing Rod a Sucess

While at the recent Orvis Warehouse Sale in Charlotte, NC, I had a good close up opportunity to review the new line of fly fishing rods. It's the Helios line, the lightest, strongest and most flexible fly-fishing rod Orvis has ever produced.

These rods offer the latest technology in resins, to reduce the weight. That technology coupled with a new lighter reel seat, makes them the world's lightest fishing rods . The Orvis team spent over two years to develop and perfect the new line, but it has paid off in sales, which are going thru the roof!

As I looked over those beautiful rods, I could not help but wonder what roll in the development of the rod, was played by my friend Tom Rosenbauer, Marketing Director for Orvis Rod and Tackle.

New Jersey Trout Fishing-Better Than Ever!

A fisherman contacted our web site http://www.troutu.com/ requesting information about trout fishing in New Jersey and pennsylvania. I have some friends who have fished the Pennsylvania waters and just one friend who had fished the New Jersey waters near the Deleware Water Gap. Of course, I have emailed them for more individual information and I am waiting for a reply. In the meantime, I have discovered that a lot of factors have combined to make New Jersey a great trout fishing success story. Many of the streams that course down and through the steep, wooded terrain of the Ridge and Valley and Highlands regions, as well as the rolling plains of the Piedmont, provide the cold water habitat that trout need. New Jersey has over 500 miles of streams with water quality capable of supporting trout reproduction and/or adequate for the year-round survival of trout. A 20 lb. brown trout of your dreams wasn't caught until 1995 in Round Valley Reservoir...... and I thought that the only trout in NJ were in an aquarium!

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