This year, the week between the Pleasanton and Pasadena Shows is affording an opportunity to fish at a new venue here in California. Roy and Daneen Gunther have invited Chuck and Janet Furimsky and I to join them at their facilities on Goodwin Lake near Jamestown. This long, narrow lake sports very healthy rainbows in […]
My friend, Theo Bakelaar, from Holland sends his salute to all U. S. fly fishers. He has been experimenting with eel skin sculpin designs for European waters. These are foam headed flies that are fished on a sinking line. In my forthcoming book, Long Flies — Streamers, Bucktails, and Other Big Fish Flies, I discuss […]
I saw my good friend Capt’n Jake Jordan at the Raleigh Show and he told me of all the recent adventures of fishing for sails and marlin. Here’s a report from his group in Guatemala. Greetings from Guatemala, just to keep you up to date, the fishing has been good to say the least. Some big […]
The Raleigh Show was a great success. Lefty Kreh, Joe Humphries, Bob Clouser, myself, and others offered classes, gave tying and casting demos, and spoke with PowerPoint presentations. Sunday morning I had a couple of hours to tour the show, and bumped into my old friend, Jay Bergan, who owns and operates the Five Rivers […]
My old pal, Theo Bakelaar, sent me a URL for a site that he writes for that you, my readers, may find interesting. It’s written in Dutch, but there is an opening video that has some great riseform shots in it. Have a look: www.flyfever.com.
I will be at the fly fishing show in Raleigh, NC, this weekend. I will be offering a casting class, a fly tying class, and giving fly tying demonstrations, casting demonstrations, and Power Point presentations on several topics. There wll also be time to sign books. If you can get there this weekend, stop by […]
A very fast, easy to tie, and effective caddis pupa can be built from just a touch of dubbing and a little poly yarn or Antron yarn. It’s on of the flies in my Down and Dirty (D&D) series of imitations. It can be dressed in any needed colors, and the tyer can manipulate the […]
My friend, Theo Bakelaar, sent me photos from Holland of people skating on the canals. It’s been cold enough there this winter to freeze the canals, and thousands are enjoying the great skating.
Every once in a while someone creates a new and better mouse trap. Here’s the best hackle pliers I’ve seen in many a day. It holds a hackle feather like you can’t believe. It’s super light so it doesn’t break delicate feathers, and it’s formed in a loop so that one can merely insert an […]
In my travels around the US I run into products that certainly need to be publicized. Goat Head Sole Spikes are one of those items. This year, felt soles are banned in Alaska and a number of other states. This means, of course, that we will all be wading with rubber soles. And although wading […]