Are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the… cause. Getting things in order for FIB Fest at Andros South next week.
Tagged: Andros South, bonefish, Deneki, trips we lucked into, Ximenez
Pike Painting, originally uploaded by mattstansberry. Matt Stansberry’s been doing a little painting. We’re liking the pike.
Tagged: fly fishing painting, watercolors, we like pike
I play in front of people once a year. Everybody’s drunk, the expectations are low, and the co-players are as bad or worse than me. It’s always been a dream to play a set at a dive bar, but I settle for the annual spring pike trip. The six string makes the packing list along with the tuning device for the tone deaf, and the memories of being asked to stop playing Bad Moon Rising on repeat.
Tagged: Creedence!, finger picking, geeters, pike trip, the saddest of all keys
You can see a few more close-ups of my digits in Tosh Brown’s gallery here. There are actually a lot of pictures of better fly anglers, as it’s the second wave of photos from our in-progress book project. It ain’t about me. It’s about guys like Bob Popovics and the Salty Flyrodders and Jason Puris and John Page Williams. Guys who drop what they’re doing and alter their life patterns around the migrations of fish. And also the guides and conservationists who make it all their life’s work. We’ve got a couple of more legs to go, and some of us have a couple thousand more words to write, but it’s all good.
Read this post on Capt. Gordon’s blog, and then this one. Then try chanting “drill baby drill” again. I dare you.
Read this post on Capt. Gordon’s blog, and then this one. Then try chanting “drill baby drill” again. I dare you.
I walked the banks at sunrise this morning. The fish were active on dawn patrol. I fooled just one into thinking my fly was an insect, then just put down the rod and watched for a while.
I shall call him Tiny.
Tagged: brown trout, central new york, tiny fish pursuits
