Category Archives: Fishing Stories
Saturday Shoutout / Hendricksons
"YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT THIS SHIT WHEN YOU'RE YOUNGER." This piece by Steve Zakur for Hatch Magazine is one of the nicest I've read in a while. A frank story about fish and flies, friends and failing health. Proof that things don't always work out like...
Sunday Classic / F-ing-A Yampa!
This story contains adult language. If you chose to read it, don't complain. IT TAKES A FEW MINUTES TO SET IN, WE ARE ON ONE OF THE GREATEST TROUT RIVERS IN THE WORLD AND THE FISH ARE GOING OFF AND WE ARE TOTALLY ALONE. Wal-Mart, Frisco,...
Careful What You Ask For
All fish are not created equal. It's funny how what we want out of fly fishing changes over the years. We've all heard the story, I want to catch a fish, I want to catch a lot of fish, I want to catch a big fish......
Saturday Shoutout / Unsalted
THIS WEEK TOM HAZELTON, VIA MIDCURRENT, TELLS A TALE OF FLATS BOATS AND FLY RODS ON LAKE SUPERIOR. Tom's on to something. I don't know why more folk aren't fishing lakes with flats boats. I done it a few times and it just makes sense. This...
Saturday Shoutout / The Naming
A GIFT FROM THE FOLKS AT MIDCURRENT It doesn't take long. A paragraph, maybe two, for me to fall into a favorite writers words. To feel the rhythm of them or hear their voice in my ear. Everything else fades to black and I'm truly...