Mike Hyde with the ladyfish of a lifetime on the fly by Long Key in Layton, FL! If there was ever a week to be a fly fisher in the Florida Keys, the week of May 16 to 22 was not it. As I write this, there’s an ongoing Small Craft Advisory calling for east
Rich Strolis’s ‘Shucked-up Emerger’
There’s no shortage of fly pattern tutorial videos these days. Many of them are an impressive display of the fly tyer’s art, but one has to wonder if some of them actually catch fish. I get on a creative streak from time to time, whipping up experimental patterns that look great but most of them
Walt Randall: ‘The Hat’
Here is a very moving guest post from Walt Randall. A happy Father’s Day to all…. Dedicated to my Dad, Bill Randall, and to all the fathers and father figures in our lives. Dad returned from Germany and the Army of the Occupation in 1955. He brought back with him a taste for good lager,
Caught Four, Shoulda Been More
This past weekend Doover2 and I decided to go fishing to see if we could scare up a few trout. Friday night, as we were texting back and forth about where we should go, we were all over the map. With my weakened medical condition, I was looking for something that wouldn’t require a lot