Rightfully so, many consumers think that marketing is out to divide them from their hard earned money. Consequently, most hype surrounding new or novel innovations is received with a fair amount of skepticism. But what if some of these features are more than gimmicks? Today I’m sharing four products with design or function elements that …
Countless tourists head to coastal New England cities, towns, and remote coastlines every year. Trust me: I sit behind you as I try to get around during my normal day-to-day. With around 6,000 miles of coastline, there is room for all of us. And there is just that much more room for stripers, bluefish, and …
The vast majority of your dry fly presentations ought to be made upstream, with you standing slightly to one side of the fish. This optimizes your cast, your mending, and your hook set. But what if you can’t do that? What if there is a fish that is downstream, under cover, and slurping bugs off …
Well, I’m breaking with tradition for this one. I’m not calling it “Fly Fishing Accusations XXX.” That said, there are some interesting segments in this episode. I get a little fired up about how people feel the need to police the fishing gear designed to solve problems. I also circle back to fallfish, tenkara, and …
Looking back on 300 podcast episodes, I am not surprised at which shows saw the most downloads. Everything is right in line with the kind of content that people love to ingest. These are, according to you, the “greatest hits” of Casting Across: 3 Steps for Introducing Fly Fishing If Casting Across does one thing …
300 episodes. That, my friends, is a lot of my digitized voice out there on the internet. Today I’m breaking free from my rigid, one-note format. I’ve got a guest. In fact, I have the most special of special guests. My wife of 21+ years. Her perspectives on nearly every topic are worth listening to …
Not everyone does podcasts. I get that. And while the Casting Across Fly Fishing Podcast is a big part of what I do on here, there is a reason that written articles get the prime publishing days on the calendar. Still, I do think the podcast adds something special to the content of Casting Across. …
In case you’ve been living under a rock (like a caddis nymph, perhaps), I’m going to be the bearer of bad news and inform you that fly fishers have the reputation of being quite the opinionated group of individuals. And as the maxim states, opinions are like… well, they’re like waders that have been sitting …
I wouldn’t say that I get too worked up about what people say in and around fly fishing. But the extreme ends of gear perspectives bug me. One says that the most expensive gear is the only way to go. The other says that whatever you can find is all that you need. As is …
There is a good chance that you have some habits when it comes to approaching certain types of water. After a few decades of pursuing brookies, browns, and cutthroats in mountain streams I have developed a simple little scheme for identifying what they’re keying in on. Today I share the three dry flies I use …
