Reading blog reader Nicholas’s comment (below the post here) made me realize something: there’s tremendous luck that goes with fly fishing. The luck happens when you fish a run that no one has yet hit and disturbed. It occurs when you are nymphing, ready to cast at the end of the drift…and, find a fish
Category: Swift River
Swift River Steelhead Worm Fly: THE SNACK ATTACK
Hope this post finds everyone healthy and happy as can be given the current situation. At least, we can still get out in the woods. Given that the rain seems to want to keep the rivers all high, I figured you all may want to get a secret fly recipe that keeps the rod bending
All the Better
There’s something good and right about fly fishing with a friend when the noise of the world is a bit too persistent. There’s something even better and almost just when it happens during a pandemic. And, so it was on Saturday when fellow blog writer, Jamie Carr, and I met up to fish. Jamie and
Bamboo Fever
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