I have been fly fishing for nearly 20 years and, until recently, I had never cast a bamboo rod. This is intentional, and there’s a distinct reason. I was fully expecting that once I did so, the percentage play was that I would be fully engaged from that point forward. Bamboo was simply was not
Category: Philosophy
Surviving Fly Tying Season with the Help of Podcasts
Although we are still in winter, the nights are getting a little bit shorter. The days are a little bit longer. This is encouraging, but we still have a long way to go before I will be thrashing thin blue-line brookies with spiders and other wets. Which means, for me, just like for many of
The Streamer Skunk
There aren’t any glossy photos of kick-ass fish in this post. That’s because I didn’t catch any today. I fished starting at dawn and devoted all of my time to streamers. And, not just any streamers, but those that were six- to eight-inches and articulated. They were the low-probability option on a winter’s day. I
Mellow Yellow
Like many anglers who learned a cast or a tip from Bernard “Lefty” Kreh, my son and I both feel a bit of a connection to the legendary angler. Maybe, it’s more like a small debt. Or, a dash of jealousy, even, as Lefty was a person who accumulated multiple lifetimes of fishing knowledge and