Posts tagged “advancements in ditch fishing”

#1 Hit Blog

Posted on October 30th, 2009

The Winner of the Blogger’s Ditch Fishing Gear Contest is: Honky wins as per being the 31st comment, picked by Random Number Generator. BLOG PROFILE: Since it’s the weekend and we’re too tired to email some questions, this is what we may or may not know. Blanco’s been putting up sophomoric hilarity for some time now. The proprietor possibly works in a fly shop somewhere and probably doesn’t need any of this stuff but he gets it anyway. Yacht Club please send correspondence as to where to send this paraphernalia.

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BLOGGER’S CONTEST: Win Ditch Fishing Array

Posted on October 21st, 2009

Bloggers sent me a lot of stuff this year in the form of flies, fly boxes, t-shirts, tunes and fly tying scissors.  Michael Gracie, Matt Stansberry, Roughfisher, Keith Barton, Jason Puris, Murdock…all sent something my way. I need to finally give something back. Some of you know I like hitting the ditches when I visit South Florida for the funky payoff. So I’m offering up a Ditch Fishing Kit. This includes: –The Redington Predator 6w rod they sent me to demo for a ditch rod review. –A couple of mutant flies. –A 6th Finger tying scissor from the man who coined the term “Brownlining.” –A long sleeve bass t-shirt from Apex Predator. RULES Bloggers only. If you have a fishing related blog that’s been…

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Ditch Fishing Paraphernalia: Shorties

Posted on July 30th, 2009

A man serious about the prospecting of ditches needs a shorty. As discovered researching  ”A Brief History of Ditch Fishing” a 7’6″ snub-nosed can be a deadly weapon at close range. My dad’s old Horrocks-Ibbotson is to me a ranking northeast small stream trout rod (bought in his time for $12). But for my ditch forays I wanted a 6w with extra mustard. I tried two less expensive commercial rods under eight feet: the Redington Predator and the Temple Fork TiCrx 6w. I’ve fished both of them in close quarters north and south since April, and used an anonymous 9′ 6w as the field test control. Here are my thoughts: REDINGTON PREDATOR 71064: 7’10″ six weight. The Redington Predator has backbone. It’s 4 inches…

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A Brief History of Ditch Fishing

Posted on March 27th, 2009

I loved the article in the Wall Street Journal about brownlining, and was glad to see props go out to Fat Guy, Gracie, JP, et al, and for the esteemed Mr. Chandler and Mr. Barton getting credit for coining a new name for a fly fishing genre. But the article stopped a little short. Before brownlining there was ditch fishing. The concept of casting flies in less than pristine settings goes back decades. In Florida, many well known fly fishing luminaries and pioneers cut their teeth fishing the Everglades and the vast network of man-made backwater canals that carve up the southern tier of the state. It is well documented that anglers such as Flip Pallot, Chico Fernandez, and Norman Duncan–who invented the Duncan…

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