“If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.” – John Gierach There are thousands of fly patterns in existence—too many to know. Walking into a fly shop, you might…
“There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.” – Roderick Haig-Brown November—it’s the time when many people start “winding down”…
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.” — Tom Brokaw Like most hobbies, fishing, and particularly fly fishing, can be tainted by a certain degree of “snobbery”. Use these ten archetypes as a gauge of where you…
“A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart.” - Roderick Haig-Brown
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of Mankind” – H.D. Thoreau STARTING OUT The first “fly rod” I ever had was a 12 inches…
“Fishing has been styled ‘a contemplative man’s recreation,’ … and science is only a more contemplative man’s recreation.” – H.D. Thoreau Going fishing somewhere new is a lot like conducting a science experiment. First, you start with a hypothesis—a big…