Tag Archives: Fly Fishing
Support the Bonefish Tarpon Trust
We like the Bonefish Tarpon Trust because they have a cool sounding URL – tarbone.org – and because everything they do is driven by scientific research, and the desire to keep doing it. So when Aaron Adams dropped a note … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Save the World
Oregon Streams In Jeopardy, Skeena Screw Job
Got an email yesterday from Matt Stansberry of the Caddis Fly Blog, talking about how plans to ramp up logging could seriously damage some Oregon streams. Some are household names to fly fishermen, even those of us East Coasters who’ve … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Other Blogs, Save the World, Travel
STRIPED BASS: Ace of Spades Brings Good Luck
You win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me…
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast
Going With Glass
Upstate last week, I found my dad’s old fiberglass fly rod in the boat shed. I think he bought it in 1963, or maybe 1961, not sure. It’s called the “Mohawk Deluxe.” Manufactured by the Horrocks-Ibbotson Co, Inc., of Utica … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater
More Pike Trip Highlights
A pike fooled by an Eat Me fly. The smallmouth bass went off. This one hit a bass hook fly. Sunset Cast The rest are in my flickr photo set.
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Northeast
Carp on the Fly: The Interview
I’ve already declared 2008 the Year of the Carp. One reason for that, besides occasionally obsessing about weird fish, is I’m tired of living vicariously through the exploits of John Montana, who posts all about whacking carp on one of … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Other Blogs, Q & As
REVIEW: All The Best
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Inshore, Offshore, Reviews
KEYS: Tarpon Frustration
Everyone’s seen the hero footage of noble saltwater fly anglers matching wits with silver kings, but thefin.com has two short clips showing what fly fishing for tarpon is really like, a lot of the time.
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Inshore, Other Blogs
