Tag Archives: fishing
Book Review, “The View From Coal Creek” by Erin Block
I HAVE TO CONFESS I HAVE A WRITER'S CRUSH ON ERIN BLOCK. I started following her blog, Mysteries Internal, a couple of years ago and the sound of Erin's voice in my head became as familiar as a favorite song. When she first started posting about...
Sunday Classic / Tarpon On The 4 Weight
Let me be clear on this…I am not a dumb ass. Well, at least not a big enough dumb ass to try and catch a tarpon on a four weight. But I did buy a new four weight reel the other day and a ten...
Saturday Shoutout / Carp Fishing in America
THE WEATHER IS STARTING TO WARM UP AND CARP GUYS ARE GETTING RESTLESS. ERIN BLOCK OF MYSTERIES INTERNAL GIVES YOU THE HISTORY AND HYSTERIA OF CARP FISHING IN AMERICA. Many things seem like great ideas at the time, yet most are only figments of a hopeful...
Gary Merriman Ties The Tarpon Toad
I'VE KNOWN GARY MERRIMAN FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS AND ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT A YEAR AGO THAT HE WAS THE CREATOR OF THE TARPON TOAD. The Toad is a great pattern and almost anyone who has fished for tarpon has tied one on at some point....
Sunday Classic / Conch And Beer For Dinner Again?
By now I'm back from the Bahamas long enough to stop grumbling about the cold but not quite long enough for the line burns to have healed. I've done my best to rid the world of Conch and Kalik but if you can find any...