Here’s one fine pair of nippers! These are not your momma’s nippers, and they’re not your daddy’s nippers. These are decidedly the Humvee of the nipper world. Abel has always built superb products and these beasts are no exception. There’s heft, there’s superior nipping power, there great looks, there a needle to clean the hook […]
My friend, Captain Jake Jordan, recently landed what would most certainly have been a new world record Blue Marlin on the fly rod. He refused to kill the fish, and so it will have to stand as an unofficial record. He deserves praise and thanks for this unselfish act. Here’s the report from his skipper: […]
I will appear on Roger Maves Show–www.AskAboutFlyFishing.com tonight, February 2, 2011, Ground Hog Day, at 7pm Mountain Time. We will be discussing Fishing the Film and other topics. Let’s hope I get it all right the first time so I don’t have to do it endlessly until I do. See you then.
For more info, click here. From the website: Tom Helgeson’s Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo will continue this year on April 1, 2 and 3 at a wonderful new location — The National Sports Center in Blaine. As you may have heard, Great Waters founder Tom Helgeson died in November after a brief battle with […]
While at the Somerset New Jersey Show, I met Morten Bundgasard, Managing Director of Pro Tubefly System. Now here’s innovation. I can’t believe that someone actually has made plastic propellor blades for tubes. WOW is all I have to say. At long last, someone is thinking. In addition, they have a variety of cone head […]
At the Somerset Show this past weekend, I gave a presentation on “Nymphing,” and was asked several times about the pattern for the Snail Fly. It’s so easy that it’s almost embarrassingly so. Here’s the pattern for the Snail Fly: Hook: Sizes 10-14, standard shank length hook (I like a heavier wire nymph hook because […]
Sunday, day 3 at the Somerset Show, sported a good crowd of enthusiastic people who attended the presentations, destination theaters, adventure theaters, demonstrations, workshops, and filled the Show floor. I managed to visit my friend Ken Reinard, the Colonial Angler, at his “shop,” that he had set up at the show. Ken has spent a […]
Day Two—Saturday—at the Somerset Fly Fishing Show was crowd deluxe. Yesterday’s snow storm held the crowd to a respectable size, but today’s crowd was simply smashing. I managed to visit a couple of long-time friends in the industry, and get caught up on their activities. Simon Gawesworth,, Spey caster extraordinaire, was at the Rio booth, […]
The Show opened with a snow storm that dumped 4 to 6 inches of snow on the region. I had a fly casting class at 8:30 am with 10 students signed up. To my surprise they all showed up on time. I say to my surprise because the storm had only just cleared out and […]
For all of us interested in long flies, their history, tying tactics, and etc. this is the site where we can exchange ideas, read about the ins and out of long fly origins, and show our skills at dressing these important imitative flies: http://www.streamerlist.com/. Have a look.