Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Inshore, Offshore, Reviews, tagged Fly Fishing, lefty kreh on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The most famous of fly fishermen are famous for something else. Ted Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Tiger Woods…(probably the most recognizable of all time is a pretend one, Brad Pitt as Paul Maclean)…The lone exception to that would be Lefty Kreh. In the fly fishing community at least, he is a one-namer, like ”Babe” to baseball fans, “Jerry” [...]
Posted in Fly Fishing, Inshore, Offshore, Reviews, tagged baitfish, Fly Fishing, saltwater on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s what I like about Fly Fisherman’s Guide to Saltwater Prey. There’s not a single photo of a gamefish in the book, save for the one the author’s holding in his bio pic on the back cover. Every picture in this book is either of a type of saltwater prey or of the fly that [...]
Posted in Fly Fishing, Inshore, Lit, Reviews on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Holy Fucking Shit. If I had to choose three words to sum up Rich Murphy’s encyclopedic Fly Fishing For Striped Bass, these would serve the purpose. The words hold special relevance to me in relation to this fish, because they are exactly what I uttered the first time I felt the whump of a striper [...]
Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Lit, Reviews on September 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is not a fishing book. It is a book in which the author uses a fly fishing trip to Alaska as a vehicle into deep personal introspection. In his writing, the author Lou Ureneck references a quote from Socrates that, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” These pages represent an examined life.
Ureneck invites [...]
Posted in Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast, Reviews, tagged Orvis Helios Rod Review on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
THE CASE STUDY: I fish saltwater in the Northeast. Most of the time when I pick up a rod to cast I have an immediate primary objective: defeat wind. If that goes well and a hookset results, the rod needs the fighting strength to combat the savagery of bluefish, the brute strength of stripers, and the blistering [...]
Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Reviews, Video, tagged DVD review, Kiwi Camo, Trout Bum Diaries on April 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I received a review copy of the lastest venture from the guys in the Angling Exploration Group, and upon watching the DVD of their New Zealand adventure, I have come to the following conclusion: I hate them. Actually, the better description of my feelings towards them is unabashed envy. There are few people in the [...]
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