The day dawned very windy and ended very windy. However, the sky was blue from corner to corner and the fish were at least a bit cooperative. Even though I’m on the downside of the king run this year, I took a couple of them early in the day, and then saw my friend Lou […]
My friend, Cap’t Jake Jordan had a hip replacement done this summer. He made fast and good recovery and is now out chasing the false albacore. These are among the fastest and strongest fish you’ll ever hook on a fly rod. After a 20 minute fight done almost entirely in the backing, the fish surrenders […]
I had a note today from John Beth who sent a photo of a nice brown taken by our mutual friend, Dr. Dan “Doc” Zavadsky. I’ll be down there this coming week looking for this fish’s companions and others, too. Watch for photos this week.
Long Flies is coming soon. Watch here and on Jason’s blog for further announcements. Jason and I have settled on the cover art for Long Flies. It has the perfect look and feel to it, and I think it’s a great visual to introduce the reader to this wonderful facet of fly fishing. Long Flies […]
The Fall Salmon season is well underway, and I’m headed off to experience it once more. John Beth will be joining me for a couple of days, and we will not only be looking for kings and cohos,but browns and steelhead as well. I will be posting regularly (I hope daily) next week about conditions […]
The International Fly Tying Symposium is coming up, November 19, 20. If you’ve never attended, I urge you to shake a leg and get out to see all the great stuff at the Symposium. It is the largest fly tying only event in the world and features tyers from all over the world. There’s all […]
It’s amazing how dependent we’ve become on computers and the internet. One doesn’t give them a second thought until one or the other is not working. That’s been the problem this last week with our internet service. It’s been out of service. Hopefully it will be back in play with no problems going forward. Now […]
Day two dawned cold, foggy, and overcast. I was more than excited to get out. This is fall laker weather. So after an icy dip in the lake, a shave, and breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon with homemade bread and blackberry jelly, we set out. The others wanted to search for walleyes and probe […]
I’ve just returned from a fall lake trout fishing excursion. I say excursion because we drove 11 hours and then flew and additional 45 minutes into the remote Ontario lake. We fished the same lake last year and got there a week too late. Being the intelligent creatures that we are, we selected a week […]
I had a comment/question asking about clarification and differentiation for the Belize Knot, Kime’s Clincher (Clifford’s Knot), and Lefty’s No-slip. 1. All of them are non-slip loop knots. 2. All of them start with an overhand knot in the end of the tippet. 3. I particularly like the Belize Knot for finer tippets where a […]