Ben Groppe

Anglers fishing the Swift River

Fire, Ice, and Hatchery Trout

The air temperatures were measuring in the single digits, and in the back of my mind I knew this was the coldest weather I’d ever fished in.

Canoeing the Taunton River

Beat The Heat (Boston Project)

Small interactions and discoveries on painfully slow days are the kinds of things that remind you to stay locked in as an angler.

Starting Somewhere (Boston Project)

I prepared to revamp my hunt for some local bass. There was just one mission in the salt I had to complete first.

The Carp Tour (Boston Project)

The clouds lifted as we walked up to the first pond, and the brightened shallows of the mud flat before us were suddenly alive with dozens of waking dark shapes.

The Boston Project

There’s an endless supply of rivers and coastline around this place, an inspirational mess of water to pick apart. Sounds like a fun project to me.

Details, Deschutes, and Doritos

Anglers and trout are both masters of efficiency, and have an uncanny skill to survive and thrive on as little as possible.

Summer in Review: New Jersey

This inevitably came with a drastic change of scenery, a great deal of culture shock, and, pertaining to this blog, a considerable decline in world class year round fly fishing waters.

Winging It in the Inland Northwest

Luckily, this dilemma allowed me to develop one of the greatest skills an obsessed fly angler can have— Making a fishing trip appear out of thin air.

How to See Trout

Sight fishing for trout can happen across a range of difficulties, but what remains a constant necessity in all scenarios is seeing fish, and the right one at that.