One of my favorite writers, Chris Hunt, often captures the true essence of fishing, in his recent post High Country (below) he outdid himself. I always enjoy his writing as I do our all to infrequent conversations. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do. Where will I fish today? Upstream, where […]
Along the Ocean (Policy Task Force) Front
If you are a saltwater angler you probably recall some of the hue and cry surrounding the Obama administration’s Ocean Policy Task Force. This task force was purported to being writing the regulations that would, among other things, close the oceans to sport fishing. The final report from the task force was released recently and for the most […]
Tenkara in the Ozarks
As a tenkara fan, I keep my eye’s peeled for posts, tweets, updates etc on anything related to tenkara style fly-fishing. Brian Wise‘s post at Fly Fishing the Ozarks quickly caught my eye. It is a great post on the “feel” you get when you use a tenkara rod for nymphing. He also points out how using […]
AFFTA Board election draws a crowd
This is really impressive. Twenty-eight people have thrown their fishing hats into the proverbial ring for the nine seats available on the American Fly Fishing Trade Associations board. As a board member this is a really exciting time. After some of the kicking around that AFFTA has gotten, deserved or not, the fact that so […]
Rick Bach, Tenkara and the EBTJV
When I got a note from Rick Bach asking about trout fishing in Maryland I wrote back saying I was not much on Maryland but would be happy to take him to the mountains in Virginia to fish for brook trout with a tenkara rod. Rick being an adventurous young man, after all he is fishing his […]
ASA releases Comprehensive Angler Access Study
The simple fact is that if anglers can’t access the water they will be driven from the sport. There are a lot factors that drive a person’s decision to go fishing. The study for ASA by Responsive Management looked at those decisions with an eye toward helping guide programs to improve angler access. Durable decisions […]
