Posts tagged “the blitz”

DIY

Posted on May 7th, 2012

A tree falls across the road barricading you from where you want to go and there’s no way around it and the people already past it aren’t going to stop and look back on your account, so the only thing to do is pour gasoline into the chainsaw. DIY is the prevailing ethic behind most of the blogs out there in the fly subculture. There are no set rules as to what one is or has to be and anyone that tells you otherwise is not worth the breath he just wasted. I am proud to be part of two projects that have come forth via DIY channels in the past year, with my participation in them a direct result of doing this blog.…

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Lights Out, Guerilla Radio

Posted on September 28th, 2011

    Rob from A Bad Backcast invited me onto his weekly show on Kayak Fishing Radio to talk about The Blitz: Fly Fishing The Atlantic Migration. Very generous considering the book is unintentionally kayak-free. (We had a whole yak session cancelled due to A Noreaster.) There is a green canoe, though. Here’s the link where you can listen to a podcast of the conversation on iTunes: A Bad Backcast Radio Interview Things turn wild around minute 13 when I smash a styrofoam cooler over Rob’s head and threaten to kill his head writer Jackie Martling.* (*Statement not actually true.)

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My Life As A Hand Model

Posted on May 3rd, 2010

You can see a few more close-ups of my digits in Tosh Brown’s gallery here. There are actually a lot of pictures of better fly anglers, as it’s the second wave of photos from our in-progress book project. It ain’t about me. It’s about guys like Bob Popovics and the Salty Flyrodders and Jason Puris and John Page Williams. Guys who drop what they’re doing and alter their life patterns around the migrations of fish. And also the guides and conservationists who make it all their life’s work. We’ve got a couple of more legs to go, and some of us have a couple thousand more words to write, but it’s all good.

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And So It Begins (Book Saga Continues)

Posted on April 22nd, 2010

Tosh Brown flew in to Baltimore and I was an hour late picking him up, violating one of my guiding life principles: Never piss off a Texan. But the book project rolls on. We beelined it up to Havre De Grace, where the Susquehanna River empties into the northernmost reaches of the Chesapeake Bay. From there we drove up through Delaware and to the Jersey Shore. I had to bail after the first five days of this leg, but Tosh headed back down to Maryland to catch up with more rocks on the way down to Annapolis. Special thanks go to many people for making this trip possible: Capt. Tom Hughes Capt. Sean Crawford Bob Popovics and his entire crew. (And for that awesome…

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