Fly fishing can define an experience, a personality, an event, a place. Listening to the voices of those who see such things through the lens of fly fishing can be captivating. If you fish, you’re hearing something in your own language. Hearing them can make you think, push you to do something, or just pass …
Picture yourself hooking, fighting, and landing a fish. It could be a trout, a bass, or a bonefish. Regardless of your quarry, put yourself in that moment immediately after it has been unhooked. Things could play out in a few different ways: You could bonk it on the head and eat it later. It might …
It was a damp fall morning. The kind of morning where the weather wasn’t great but at least it wasn’t damp and summer. There wasn’t any humidity to speak of, just a little wet. You could see it on the changing leaves, sense it underfoot, but not feel it in the air. We had gotten …
Why? Because you’re reading this, for starters. A real trout bum isn’t going to be online, clicking through articles about fly fishing and fly fishing miscellany. A real trout bum would be fishing. If not fishing, he or she would be doing what needed to be done to make fishing in the immediate future possible. …
I love fly fishing for bass, panfish, and all the other warmwater species that swim with them. While a lot of progress has been made within fly fishing culture for the acceptance, appreciation, and celebration of this side of the sport, there are still plenty of people who see it as a second-tier option. Is …
The average post on Casting Across runs around 600 words. That isn’t a lot. That is like a few pages of a book. (Books are like websites that people have printed out and stapled together and you don’t need wifi to read.) Why keep it short? Well, I don’t spend a lot of time reading …
I understand why bad pictures get the black and white treatment to make them more interesting. (I’m guilty of that.) I can tolerate people using Snapchat to make their faces slimmer and their eyes brighter. (I’m not guilty of that.) I’m opposed to using filters on brook trout. This isn’t some sort of crusade or …
I had three offers to go fishing today. That’s right, I live a pretty privileged life. Offer #1: float a large, super productive trout river. Offer #2: chase the swelling population of stripers off the beach. Offer #3: spinning rods, bluegill, and not a whole lot of fishing myself. Can you guess which one I …
Do you fly fish? If you answered “no,” then the next question is “why not?” If you answered “yes,” then there are about 100 questions to follow. The reason being the remarkable amount of diversity within fly fishing. One angler might primarily pursue trout on spring creeks while another’s quarry is whatever happens to be …
To catch a fish, all you need is a cane pole, some line, a hook, and a worm. To cook meat, all you need is a pan and some heat. Those approaches will get the respective jobs done. Fishing or cooking like that could be considered doing things the easy way. Straightforward methods work, but …
