Category Archives: Fly Fishing Lifestyle
Eternal Return
By Lauren Holt "IN HINDSIGHT, CHANGE WAS CERTAINLY ON OFFER THAT SANTERIA SUNDAY MORNING" “There is no being apart from becoming.” – Hegel maahnk maahnk maahnk maahnk maahnk maank I rolled over to find my phone and kill my alarm, groggy in the stillness and the purple dark of...
Are We Being The Best Ambassadors For Fly-Fishing?
Are you proud of how you represent fly-fishing? I sat in a meeting the other day, a discussion really, with a group of fly fishing guides. Most of them are guys I like and respect. I was very quickly stoked at, from my perspective, how they...
Confessions of a Trout Guide
WHAT HAPPEN ON THE RIVE, STAYS ON THE RIVER...USUALLY. So this time of year in Colorado, the rivers are blown, there is no one in town and all the guides are hanging around the shop bullshitting about their worst/best days on the water. It got me...
What Is The Future of Fly Fishing?
HAVE YOU HEARD THE TERM "FLY FISHING 2.0"? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS? If you do you might be ahead of me. Whether it's marketing, zeitgeist or a true sea change in the nature of the sport one thing is for sure. Fly fishing is...
Stream Etiquette, Two Stories About How To Share The Water
TWO EXPERIENCES IN TWO DAYS LEFT ME WITH TWO VERY DIFFERENT FEELINGS. I spent a couple of days fishing in North Carolina a couple of weeks ago. A dear friend came in from Colorado and gave me the chance to share some of our eastern rivers....