From Walt: if Hallmark were to make a Christmas movie about fly fishing, it might look something like “Speying For Love.” This story is a sequel to Bill Hager’s “The Christmas Trout,” which appeared on this blog last Christmas. When last we saw Marcy, she was standing in Willowemoc Creek near Roscoe, NY, flushed from
Category: Humor
Transgressing
On Saturday, when Jo and I were departing from the river, I asked if he wanted to write about our day’s adventures or if he wanted me to. He said it didn’t matter. He would write something up, but I could too if I wanted to. “Well, I might if you promise not to edit
Desperately Seeking Stockies
If you are anything like me, and I know I am, you are just about ready to give up on winter fishing for trout. I know, I know…. Nearly every day those guides and their clients on Instagram are holding up fish so big and beautiful that even Herman Melville wouldn’t have words to describe
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