Amazing what open eyes can see. Assuming the brain can connect the dots.
Planning for trout chasing next weekend gets all eight cylinders firing when in comes to research. Water levels are low. Temps may be high. And little good can come of catching and releasing already stressed out wild fish.
So the interweb gets tickled for [...]
Posts under ‘Fly Fishing’
interesting surprise
nothing beats a “free” weekend
In the words of my father, I “made out like a bandit” this weekend. And had a spot of luck too.
It began Friday when the new hard drive for our Series 3 Tivo arrived. The old hard drive decided to take a permanent vacation, presenting the dilemma of either purchasing a new Tivo, meaning we’d [...]
big guy, pink fishing rod, one big catfish
Sometimes it’s a good thing to take break for fishing to hit the “potty;” had three-year-old Alyssa not handed her pink Barbie fishing rod to grandpa, she might be swimmin’ wit da fishes. Catfishes that is.
That’s 32 inches of whiskered fish — almost as long as his granddaughter is tall and two inches longer than [...]
pictures of the latest flies
Finally took some pictures of my latest attempts at fly tying…
I’ll be at the fly-tying desk…
one fly for the trees, one for the fish, one to remember how to tie the blasted thing
Scooped up my fully equipped fly tying desk — which eerily looks much like a little folding wooden TV tray — and plopped it between myself and the TV last weekend. Armed with a rack of threads, small and even-smaller hooks, a few tungsten beads and a diet soda, I set to tying a few [...]
