Category Archives: Freshwater
Like Novocaine
Standing in hip waders casting to rainbow trout from the truck. Snapping the neck and sliding one into the creel. Knowing that by June the water will warm until they can no longer stand it.
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Northeast
Stolen
When there is no time afforded you have to steal some. Five casts. Fifty casts. Five hundred. Whatever it takes to make something out of another thing that you don’t rightfully have. One jump should suffice to bend it back … Continue reading
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Freshwater
VIDEO: The Two Minute Rainbow Trout
Some time-lapse footage of Scott Hale working the brushes.
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Media, Pimped Content, Video
Accidental Triploid Encounters
As it swims closer along the bank it becomes apparent we are dealing with something of more substantial immensity than the chunky black bass standing sentinel over the drain pipe. It makes the heart skip a beat and the eyes … Continue reading
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Freshwater
FLORIDA: The Ditch Slam
The whole thing started with the least of expectations. I had a rod and some time to kill due to a delayed appointment. I made some casts. I caught nothing. I drove to the appointment. Delayed again, for another hour. … Continue reading
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Freshwater
Camouflage
Makes sense about that pre-wiring for ambush.
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Freshwater
Sing Me Back Home
I would never argue they’re the most challenging fish or that casting from a mowed patch of St. Augustine equates with an emerald bonefish flat, but it’s something I like to do. And on the technicolor scale they take a … Continue reading
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Freshwater
Don’t Care How Big Mama Is
This ain’t no tournament and I ain’t got no sponsors to placate. If you’re willing to take on the surface it’s all well and good.
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater
Suburbia
Extreme couponers are stealing my recycling. Once I put it to the curb it’s in the public domain, I suppose, but when a black Ford Econoline creeps slowly in front of the house at 3am, it creates unease. Why was … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Northeast
