(Jay Nichols photo)
October 31, 2025
By Jay Nichols
One cabinet in my gear room houses a stack of coffee-stained, beat-up DeLorme atlases from states near and far, many of their blue-lined pages marked up with notes. These maps were tools as important as rod and reel, and oftentimes using them to find new spots less traveled brought more fish to hand than any new fly pattern or upgrade in gear.
While I always have one for my home state of Pennsylvania in my vehicle—honestly more out of habit than anything—I have gradually retired these DeLorme maps in favor of...
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