ABOUT US
Hey—I’m Ben. I fly fish a lot and occasionally put it in writing.
Sometimes people care enough about my writing to pay me for it. This has not yet been true on the fishing side of life for me. There are, however, a number of things that cross over between fishing, writing, or reading what other people write about fly fishing. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably come to the same findings.
There’s a rhythm to both, an open-ended strategy that can be as loud or as subtle as possible, yet it calls you back the same. They take practice, patience, and a whole lot of mess-making. You can be a student your entire life. Putting too much emotion into either usually hurts you, not helps. You can do everything right and fail, you can stumble into something beautiful.
And, in the context of this website, you can do it just for the sake of doing it. The writing I get paid for doesn’t really appear here—mostly just a log of ramblings and things I feel like sharing when inspiration strikes. Some of the pieces are better than others. You may not hear from me for a while. I can’t even promise you’ll learn something.
But you might.
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I’m an East coast native with roots to Long Island, NY. As a kid I grew up fishing the waters of the Long Island Sound. At the age of 19, I fell in love with fly fishing. While at the University of Vermont I honed my skills targeting pike, smallmouth, largemouth, musky, and other fun species. Since graduating in 2020, I’ve been a tried and true saltwater fly fisherman with passion for targeting stripers, bluefish, and albacore. When I’m not fishing locally in New York, I’m in hot pursuit of my dream catches.
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I found my way into fly fishing at the beginning of high school, and taught myself on the streams and ponds around my New Jersey home. As soon as I could drive, I headed to further waters in the Catskills, Pennsylvania, and New England. I was hopelessly obsessed by the time I went to college in Vermont, and spent the next four years putting my skills against the region’s wide range of fish species. Soon after graduating I followed through on a lifelong dream of moving to the West, and now reside back in New England.
Trout remain my favorite fish to catch on the fly, but a few warm water species such as pike and smallmouth bass are close behind. I also have a deep fascination for native fish and their natural histories, and love the adventure of tracking down unique and rare subspecies. All of that said, I will fish for just about anything that swims, and at the end of the day I just love discovering what lives under the surface of whatever water I come across.
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