Tag Archives: learn to fly fish
The Fish Gods and The Temple of Swing
A steelhead is caught one way and one way only, on the swing! The temperature of the room is getting kind of warm. The fishing banter takes on a surly tone when one of the guys mentions bobber fishing. This is steelheader slang for nymphing under...
Fly Fishing The Zombie Apocalypse
Will someone please invent the Zombie Apocalypse virus, because I am so ready! Do you ever wonder why the Zombie Apocalypse is so popular with twenty-somethings? Seriously, you get more than two of them in a room and there’s going to be an hour of...
Sunday Classic / Keep It Clean With A Clearing Cast
I’ve heard salt water fly fishing described as long periods of boredom punctuated by brief periods of panic. I don’t know that I find staring at miles of gorgeous flats boring but I’ve felt that panic a time or two. It’s a stalking game and...
Saturday Shoutout / Creative Juices Are Flowing
There’s some pretty cool stuff happening this week! First off the much awaited first edition of Pulp Fly is available. Some of the coolest guys in fly fishing have put down on paper some of the best writing I’ve seen on the subject. For $5...
The Belgian Cast
Learn the Belgian cast and rule the wind. You know that feeling you get when you watch a school of bonefish swim away while you squirm and wrench your arm out of socket trying to get your fly out of your back? Yeah, me too. Casting...