Tag Archives: fishing
Hard Driving
By Jason Tucker "A little humor folks" It’s Friday at last. You have worked hard, saved up, finagled the time off from job and family obligations for this trip and now it’s here. The bite is on, the vehicle is loaded and you are making the long trek...
A Team Approach To Landing Big Fish
WHEN LANDING A BIG FISH YOU NEED THE DECK STACKED IN YOUR FAVOR. On my recent trip to Alaska West, I hade ample opportunity to practice big fish landing skills. We fished from the boat a good bit and it seemed like every five minutes we...
The Wife And The Mistress
By Ethan Smith A lesson on accuracy and line speed in saltwater fly fishing via infidelity. Note: The following is a bit of "local wisdom" from a Belizean guide. It is intended for educational purposes only. It’s premise is largely chauvinistic, misogynistic, and generally in bad taste....
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...
Do weights and simplicity go together? A tenkara perspective
ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO I VISITED CHEESEMAN CANYON FOR MY FIRST TIME. Cheeseman is a renowned fly-fishing destination in Colorado; it is well known for sizeable fish that think they are too good for our flies. The canyon features deep pools with relatively slow moving water....