Posts under ‘Fly Fishing’

Forget the too-weak magnifying glass on the fly tying vise…we’re gonna need a microscope.
And no fish will be safe.
While others resort to fishing the foul-smelling irrigation ditches — brownlining — close to home in the off season, I’m betting my marbles on “buckypaper” for that smallest of fly rods…maybe a size .01 wt¹ for those [...]

Just about booked a flight to for long stay in Dullstroom, South Africa.
One might not expect to find the words “plague” and “brown trout” uttered in the same sentence here in the Queen’s North American Colonies, but it seems the British Invasion of lo’ so many years ago created just such a problem in South [...]

Thanks to climbing flows, plans for the club fishing trip this Saturday to the Stanislaus River have been abandoned. Guess I’ll clean the nine months of accumlation from my desk instead.
We were to hit the Two Mile Bar section after flows hovered just above 200 cubic feet per second; eminently fishable. The flows climbed to [...]

I’ve been remiss in posting. But I’ll claim the excuse that it’s easier to get into the swing of a quick vacation than it is to get back into the swing of everyday life.
The previous post hints at the end of my visit last week to the Evergreen State. It was a good visit that [...]

Summer’s official end — not the one marked on the calendar — came crashing down this morning with the standard fall overcast and threat of rain.
I’m relieved that our Indigenous Summer was short lived, giving way to crisp autumn air, fresh pressed apple cider and that last hustle to any water high enough [...]