Film Tour in Maine Equals Cornell ’77?

Posted on May 11th, 2009

I missed the Fly Fishing Film Tour in NYC, read that in Indiana it was quite lame, and thought until now that the place to catch it had to be Austin, TX. But I may have to reconsider. On Thursday, June 4th the Tour is rolling through Portland, ME. Flies and Fins is hosting it, with striper guide Eric Wallace as the point man, helped in no small part by Alex the Wildman. College Kid Ben, The Roughfisher, I’m sure Marshall DeMott, and all the cool kids will be there. I’d drive up myself if it wasn’t six hours away and I wasn’t leaving to go tarpon fishing the next day. The Portland crowd has less than a month to work it out and…

Tagged: Austin, flies and fins, Fly Fishing Film Tour, FlyFishChick, lame Dead reference attempts, Maine, Patagoniaflies, Portland, roughfisher, Texas

Winter Blues

Posted on March 6th, 2009

Unrelated email conversations with Jeremy of Flies and Fins and Michael Gracie of, well, Michael Gracie, brought back the memories of a trip that constituted four days of uninterrupted awesomeness. I haven’t gotten to play the tuna game since that trip, though Lord knows we try, but it’s not an everyday–or even every year–happening to have fly-rodable bluefin come into the backyard. Watch the water rip at 3:18; that pretty much sums up why this is the holy grail of northeast salt. Damn I’m ready for the season.

Tagged: 12-weight quarry, bluefin tuna, flies and fins, michael gracie

Hand Grabbin’

Posted on December 17th, 2008

Ain’t quite like flatheads.

Tagged: flies and fins, fly rods are for sucks, offseason entertainment

Steelhead Jump

Posted on December 7th, 2008

Short but sweet

Tagged: chrome, flies and fins, steelhead

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