HOW-TO: 5-Step DIY Rod Tube

Posted on January 1, 2010

1. Go to hardware store. 2. Buy PVC stuff 3. Glue PVC stuff together 4. Breathe in PVC Glue, depress nervous system 5. Adorn with accumulated stickers [Inspiration derived from Urbn Outdoors last spring. He went further, making rod socks and streamer cases.] UPDATE: Original inspiration goes WAY BACK to the Headmaster of the Brownline School, JP the Roughfisher. Here’s his original post, with apologies for not remembering where I got the idea.

Tagged: crazy glue sniffers, DIY, JP Lipton, pvc pipe, rod tubes, roughfisher

Film Tour in Maine Equals Cornell ’77?

Posted on May 11, 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

The Nobility Of Brown…

Posted on March 16, 2009

And not the german trouty kind, either. Roughfisher weighs in on fly fishing’s real frontier, where all the so-called trash fish become the treasure.

Tagged: a call to arms, brownline fly fishing, dirty canals are beautiful, roughfisher, trash fish

Blog Flies II: Roughfisher Version

Posted on January 28, 2009

Many thanks to the Roughfisher for his creations as reward for catching a bowfin. They will be used only for good. Here’s one more Obamicon as a salute to old JP.

Tagged: advancements in ditch fishing, brownline paraphernalia, carp flies, fly tying, roughfisher

Blog Flies

Posted on January 26, 2009

People ask, what’s the point of having a blog? You don’t make any money. There are, like, a million people doing it, and your words get lost in the clutter. You should be ashamed of yourself you stupid idiot. (That’s just Mom.) And I answer them thusly: Sometimes you get free flies. A while back I sent Michael Gracie my Drift tickets. As thanks, he just sent me some killer poppers and clousers. [editor's note: I am supposed to share a few with Jason Puris of The Fin but I think I'll just tell him they never showed.] As a side bonus, he sent them along in a reusable plastic sandwich container. Thanks MG, they will be used and abused. And, as a result…

Tagged: clousers, Fly Fishing Blogs, fly tying, michael gracie, poppers, roughfisher

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