While it’s becoming increasingly clear that the cost of wanton economic growth over the last decade may be escalating prices on nearly everything (except homes) — now the outlay required to appropriately outfit one’s self as a trout bum appears well out of my reach.
A swift click on a link promising that I could “Win [...]
Posts under ‘Fly Fishing’
I can’t afford the rising cost of being a “bum”
best sport/hobby after kids?
Is fly fishing the best sport to take up in the kid-less years?
Neil Ulman makes a good and well-written argument for it in his recent article prophetically titled Wading into Heaven in the Wall Street Journal. He describes many fly fisherman’s experience:
Perhaps, like me, you retired to a land of hills and cold-water streams and [...]
gotta get me a gig like that
It’s clear that someone missed the boat when it came to choosing a career path.
While the ASVAB would point me towards logistics in the U.S. Army and local community college’s career assessment would suggest fish and game warden or interior designer carpenter, not once was it revealed that scratching out a living in a rock [...]
Eastern Sierra here we come
Cool nights, fog in the morning and a flip of the calendar hint that’s it time to pack up and climb over Sonora Pass.
This time next week it’ll be prime time in the Eastern Sierra. A bunch of us fly club members will attempt to float flies between the weeds at Hot [...]
trout and a/c
There truly is no place like a cold tailwater for hiding from the heat.
A little trout fishery near the cabin offered a (literally) cool escape from the scorcher that hit the Saturday of Labor Day weekend ’08. Willing rainbows and brookies provided the entertainment. They even taught my fly-fishing-student-for-the-day a thing or two ‘bout fly [...]
