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PROMO: Montauk Rocks, T&T

Posted on May 17th, 2012

Some friends are involved in things of a promotional nature, and I’m going to mention them here: MONTAUK ROCKS Richard Siberry, a photographer and videographer and beach junky, is seeking financial backing for his much-anticipated Montauk Rocks movie through Kickstarter. T&T RODS Matt Smythe, of Fishing Poet, is working social media for Thomas & Thomas rods, which is giving away a free rod to one random person who “likes” them on a social media platform. That is all.

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Off Label

Posted on February 24th, 2012

An unexpected package came in the mail last spring and I opened it. These electric little plastic baggies fell out and I thought, this was meant for somebody on the Furthur tour. But it was clearly labeled, Free Range Dubbing. I didn’t know what to make of it, or with it. I am not a fly tier but someone who ties flies, a selection of saltwater patterns and some bastardized variants, none of which require dubbing. I resolved to learn some patterns that do, but I am lazy. And forgetful.   The other day I started rummaging for other materials and saw the package and remembered. I bought some dubbing wax. I know just enough to be dangerous but it doesn’t matter because there…

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First, There Was Alistair

Posted on February 21st, 2012

At this moment, there are exactly 113,347 fly fishing blogs in existence. Twice that many have come and gone. (Where are you, Blanco Honky?) But of all the blogs that are, were and will be, none can make the same claim as the the Urban Flyfisher: World’s First Fly Fishing Blog. His name is Alistair, he fishes in Scotland, and this is his story.   You are recognized as the first fly fishing blogger. With no real contemporaries at the time, what compelled you to start a fly fishing blog? Essentially I wanted to start a diary that I could update easily involving photos. I did not know any html so found this new fangled thing called “blogging” and it looked like it would…

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Things That Matter on the Flats

Posted on February 2nd, 2012

 You motherf&*$&*rs got no creep,” -Kima Greggs, “The Wire” Season 2 The bonefish started moving away from me the second I raised my rod to throw and I had no accounting for it. But Ellie, my guide, gave me a look that made it clear this was all my fault. “What’s in your bag, Pete?” he asked, and I felt embarrassed for overlooking such a small thing that could dampen my prospects. I get to go flats fishing for bonefish, on average, about once every two years, so I am no authority on the subject. But in my brief travels I’ve picked up things that have stuck. Besides the general obvious ones–false casting sucks, poise counts and so on–it sometimes seems to be the…

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Lights Out, Guerilla Radio

Posted on September 28th, 2011

    Rob from A Bad Backcast invited me onto his weekly show on Kayak Fishing Radio to talk about The Blitz: Fly Fishing The Atlantic Migration. Very generous considering the book is unintentionally kayak-free. (We had a whole yak session cancelled due to A Noreaster.) There is a green canoe, though. Here’s the link where you can listen to a podcast of the conversation on iTunes: A Bad Backcast Radio Interview Things turn wild around minute 13 when I smash a styrofoam cooler over Rob’s head and threaten to kill his head writer Jackie Martling.* (*Statement not actually true.)

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Operation Sponsor Gracie, Redux

Posted on June 2nd, 2010

The dude’s got cat-like reflexes and used to play drums for Les Claypool. Last year we tried to get him propped out for the Teva Games Costa 2Fly Competition for no good reason. This year he’s rocking the 10-gallon for good cause: Raising money for Casting For Recovery. Give him a pledge for points scored over on his site, and see how he does this weekend.

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Bonefish Perspectives

Posted on May 23rd, 2010

SECOND PERSON You come on the scene three days into it, and walk into the Slack Tide at Andros South and immediately someone drops a line at your expense. Ball busting travels. Then you wake up in the morning and you’re on the flats, stepping quietly, and trying to figure out how the hell the guide walking next to you is looking at the same water but seeing entirely different things. Your line is floating behind you and you’re creeping forward hoping you get it done. The guide stops and points and you don’t see anything but you lay down the line and strip, and you feel the tension as the line starts clearing but it catches on the reel handle and that’s it.…

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