The actual decision-making is fuzzy, but the mission was clear: Joe Webster would flyfish every single day of 2022. Accomplishing this feat would not require much in the way of habit changes for Webster, who had fished most days the previous year as well. Indeed, he began in stride on Jan. 1, his wading boots still wet from the day before.
Fly anglers love making a hard thing harder. Much of the sport is based on this premise. So, if you’re going to fish every day of the year, Webster figures, it ought to be done in a fourseason climate. Webster lives in Maine, where the average high temperature is in the thirties for three months of the year. There are also well-defined open-water and ice-fishing seasons. So, his mission was made more difficult not only by extreme winter temps but also logistics, in that much of the freshwater in the state freezes over, is closed to flyfishing, or both.
Webster grew up in southern Maine, surrounded by water both fresh and
