Fountain Dweller Guide Service

ABOUT YOUR GUIDE

Joe Conklin

For me, this was heaven. My Mother arranged for the family to take a vacation in the Berkshires at my Uncle's second home. I vividly remember driving up to the house and immediately noticing that a brook, complete with riffles and pools and boulders nearly the size of a VW Bug, ran along side the property. Something inside my consciousness informed me that there were trout in that unnamed brook and "they belonged there." Suffice to say that I caught many wild brook trout on that vacation and today, nearly forty years later, my passionate pursuit of "the dweller of fountains" is unabiding.

Brook trout are only one of the fish that I enjoy chasing with a fly rod. Early Spring will usually find me fishing Lake Winnipesaukee tributaries for landlocked Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout. I also love to fish the Dead River near Kingfield, Maine for one of the few runs of large, wild rainbows in New England. The list goes on: Salmon River steelhead, Quebec Atlantic salmon, New England stripers, Connecticut River smallmouths, pike, pickerel and even panfish. I have also fallen hard for the magnificent Atlantic bluefin tuna.