Dec 18. 2006
Goosewing Coachman?
Hey - why not?
Blog entry
17 years 4 months
Dec 12. 2006
Cheated!
I was cheated when I bought this book by Valentine Atkinson
Blog entry
17 years 4 months
Dec 7. 2006
Morning fishing
Getting up to see the sun rise
Podcast
17 years 4 months
Dec 5. 2006
More Jorgensen
A second Poul Jorgensen video online
Blog entry
17 years 4 months
Dec 2. 2006
The Rise
In my ways, fly fishers and fly fishing are a lot like cooks and cooking. There are trained and certified professionals, part time hobbyists, celebrities, long honored traditions, well known recipes, several popular magazines, centuries' worth of books, and an entire industry built around the subject.
Review
17 years 4 months
Dec 2. 2006
Tigerfish from my Verandah
When you speak to old timers about fishing for tigerfish on the Zambezi River they will tell you of driving along dirt roads, cutting a path through the forest to get access to the river. Lions still running wild, and while they fished elephants chased anglers away from the bank. This is not how it is today.
Article
17 years 4 months
Nov 30. 2006
Asp Parade
Some refer to the asp (Aspius aspius) as the "poor man's tarpon" but according to Hungarian Vilmos Varga it's a quarry onto itself, worth pursuing with a fly rod and a bunch of large streamers, giving you a lot of fun and something new to catch.
Article
17 years 4 months
Nov 28. 2006
The Trout Whisperers
This is the first fly fishing novel I have ever read. In fact, it might be the first one I've ever heard of, so I don't have anything to compare it to. I'm also not a literary critic, so I don't even know if I'm qualified to review the book. I guess the best I can offer is the perspective of the target audience - a fly fisherman who enjoys reading books.
Review
17 years 4 months
Nov 28. 2006
Nymph-Fishing Rivers and Streams
Rick Hafele should be a well known name to most fly fishers. He's been the entomology columnist for American Angler magazine for years, co-authored the successful "The Complete Book of Western Hatches" with Dave Hughes, and did a popular video for 3M called "Anatomy of a Trout Stream" which co-starred a large fish-shaped rock.
Review
17 years 4 months
Nov 28. 2006
Bob Jacklin's Yellowstone Ties
Bob Jacklin is one of a handful of true legends in Fly Tying, and certainly needs no introduction here. In this DVD, he ties six of his favorite flies for fishing western trout waters - Grey Wulff, Royall Wulff, March Brown Nymph, Green Drake, Platte River Special, and Great Western Stonefly.
Review
17 years 4 months
Nov 27. 2006
A Passion for Steelhead
Dec Hogan is well known in the fly fishing world as a master of the two-handed fly rod, but until I picked up "A Passion for Steelhead" I did not know much about Dec Hogan the angler. 313 pages later, that surely has changed, almost to the point where I feel the book's title is a bit of an understatement.
Review
17 years 4 months
Nov 22. 2006
Server blues... again
If you are Jack, we're the beanstalk: we just keep growing
Blog entry
17 years 5 months
Nov 14. 2006
Poul Jorgensen video
Watch legendary Poul Jorgensen tie in this excellent online video
Blog entry
17 years 5 months
Nov 12. 2006
Thin Blue Lines
Lithuania's 758 rivers, streams, and brooks cut like thin blue lines across the map offering a wealth of fishing opportunities. British Ripley Davenport married a Lithuanian girl and this opened his eyes to the Blatic state's potential.
Article
17 years 5 months
Nov 1. 2006
Honey Shrimp
There are thousands of shrimp patterns in the world, made from the same template. This pattern is a time consumer, but it makes it more interesting tying shrimp flies. The eyes, proportions and legs gives this pattern some kind of magic.
Article
17 years 5 months
Oct 31. 2006
Mel Krieger's Patagonia
The first words spoken on this DVD are: "Every so often in life comes a person that is one step above the rest...", and it continues talking about Mel Krieger - who is the person in question as "Not just any mortal...".
Review
17 years 5 months
Oct 30. 2006
Chuck-n-Duck
Chuck-n-duck fishing isn't for everyone. Morality aside, it is an effective angling technique, one worth learning if you find occasionally find yourself in a situation where drifting a nymph along the bottom of a distant lie is the difference between catching and casting practice.
Article
17 years 5 months
Oct 30. 2006
GFF Summit 2006
The first Global FlyFisher Conclave
Podcast
17 years 5 months
Oct 27. 2006
Streams of Consciousness
I will admit right now that I had never heard of Jeff Hull prior to reading his new book "Streams of Consciousness". Obviously, I have been living with my head in the sand, or - more likely - way too close to a laptop screen, because his resume is pretty impressive, with writing credits for some big time magazines. Big time as in "known outside the fly fishing world".
Review
17 years 5 months
Oct 27. 2006
Salmon River Skunking
We had anti-fish slime all over us
Blog entry
17 years 5 months
Oct 26. 2006
The Bahamian Rhapsody II
Second part of the Bahamian bonefish joyride as described by The Gang of Four. Join Paul, Tomaz, Ian and Simon on more bonefish fun, a sailboat regatta and lots of good, clean Bahamian fun.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 24. 2006
The Bahamian Rhapsody I
Go on a bonefishing adventure and catch bones, tarpon, shark and a wealth of other species in the waters of the Bahamas. Tomaz Modic and Paul Slaney tells the story of fish caught and released, lines and rods broken and lots of fun had.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 23. 2006
Martin Westbeek
Tying has become as much a passion for Dutch Martin Westbeek as fishing, and Martin is a regular tyer at shows and fairs in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Britain, and also tied in the USA.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 23. 2006
Mart's Bibio
A nice thing about this Bibio is that it's versatile. Play with it, use lighter of heavier hooks, fish it with or without floatant, wrap a thinner or denser hackle, and so on. But make sure you have some Bibios in your flybox spring suddenly is here.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 13. 2006
Hen Hackle
Awhile back, I received a shipment of hen necks and saddles from Whiting Farms. The saddles struck me with their intense colors and solid web, then necks with their stem length and shortish barbs. These feathers were perfect for the wet flies I was working on.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 10. 2006
GFF Caps
We're considering having another batch made
Blog entry
17 years 6 months
Oct 9. 2006
Fall Colors
Autumn is my favorite time of year. All summer long I look forward to that first crisp morning where it feels good to put on a fleece shirt even though there is not a cloud in the sky. This past weekend, the weather was about as perfect as one could expect.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 8. 2006
Summit pictures
A new GFF Pix category for pictures from the GFF Summit
Blog entry
17 years 6 months
Oct 7. 2006
I wish
I whish I could go fishing a bit more often right now. But work and weather prohibits that
Blog entry
17 years 6 months
Oct 6. 2006
S&L's Lost Flies
Dick Stewart and Bob Leeman's book "Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon" has inspired fly tyers for the 24 years since it's publication in 1982. Here, finally, we get to see some of the patterns listed in the back of the book that did not have supporting photographs.
Article
17 years 6 months
Oct 4. 2006
Eyes of Epoxy
Tired of buying eyes, that make your shrimps look great? They are expensive and yet it is hard to find the color you want or the right size. It is not complicated and a good pursuit during winter time.
Make your own in all sizes and colors you want.
Article
17 years 6 months