While most of us were eating hamburgers and watching fireworks over July 4th weekend, Benjamin Ferguson and his buddy, Shawn Widrick, were fishing for brook trout deep in the Adirondack backcountry.

Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

Benjamin Ferguson has taken his canoe all across the Adirondacks, searching for big brook trout in wild places. And during a paddling expedition over Fourth of July weekend, the adventurous New Yorker ...

Benjamin Ferguson from Lowville, New York, and his fishing pal Shawn Widrick of Croghan, New York, are old hands at wilderness camping, canoeing and fishing in the wilds of the Adirondacks, located in ...