It was the same tired, tawdry pick-up line that I’d used many times before without success. But when you are new in town and really need some action, you never stop trying. The object of my interest had deep brown eyes, a husky voice, and a three day beard. “I’ve just moved to the area
Author: Bill Hager
Five Ways to Fall in a River
While I’m not nearly the fisherman that the other BlogFlyFish writers are, I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert on the subject of falling in a river, having done extensive personal research. My fly fishing buddy, Doover1, has been an eye witness to much of my research. Invariably, I always fall when he
Fast Friendships on the Farmy
Fly fishing is a lot of great things. But one of the best things is the way mini-friendships can happen spontaneously on a river. Saturday, my fishing buddy, Doover2, and I drove to what we knew would be a flooded and chilly Farmington River. We were hoping that the rising river would mean active trout
There Oughta Be A Law
With apologies to Shakespeare, “to be or not to be” is not the question. There are some things that just ought not to be. There are others that just ought to be. This article is about things in the fly-fishing world that should be obvious but somehow are not. I’ll start the list, and maybe