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Letters to the Fly Fishing Editor

Every week I get some interesting emails because of Casting Across. Most of the time, they’re quick observations or pertinent questions from website readers and podcast listeners. I think it is great. And I do my best to respond quickly and thoughtfully. In fact, I actively encourage feedback. Leading up to podcasts episodes that end …

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Rusty Flybox: Vacation

[Gone Fishin’] More appropriately: gone. My wife and I have taken a much needed trip away. Work, life, etc. has been incredibly busy for a while now. Nothing new, nothing unique to us. We’re just blessed to be able to head somewhere warm. And, conveniently enough, somewhere with fish. That will be a post for …

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5 Years of Casting Across

“You should do  it. You should write about fly fishing.” We had spent the day fishing the West Branch of the Delaware,  A number of fat brown trout came to hand, fooled by sulpher emergers. After the mist and the dark made seeing difficult and wading treacherous, we retreated to a riverside pub. “You’d be …

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The Pursuit of Fish: Trout & Feather and Casting Across

I’m excited to announce a new collaboration with another great online fly fishing resource: Trout & Feather. Tim Cammisa has been running Trout & Feather since 2014. His YouTube channel features over 250 videos; the bulk of which are fly tying videos. I’ve used Tim’s videos for my own tying, and have referred many Casting …

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Writing a Classic Fly Fishing Story

If you were to write a classic fly fishing story you’d start with an existential statement. Maybe something about water or wind  or the challenge of catching a fish. You’d develop it a bit. Then, you’d launch into the metaphor. Because this is real fly fishing writing, and everything is a metaphor for something else. …

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Podcast Ep. 10: Listener & Reader Feedback, I

I truly appreciate every thoughtful comment I receive on Casting Across. Moreover, I feel that if you took the effort to continue the conversation that I started then I should respond. In this episode, I interact with three comments that I received. They are from an article on the website, a social media post, and …

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The Casting Across Fly Fishing Podcast

Today I’m introducing the Casting Across Fly Fishing Podcast. Fly fishing podcasts are something I’ve written about frequently. I have learned a lot from listening to them. More importantly, I enjoy them. Through the ten articles that have appeared thus far, I have sent hundreds and hundreds of Casting Across readers to the following podcasts. …

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New Stream, Same Fish

Shiny and new, eh? After three years, Casting Across has received a little makeover. I didn’t sink dozens of hours into focus groups and hundreds of dollars into design consulting. I  knew the direction I wanted to go in, and with a few tweaks I got there relatively quickly. The new font is bolder, the …

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Last Cast of the Week, 11/16/2018

Every now and then, Fridays on Casting Across are  devoted to other people’s contributions in the fly fishing community. Articles, pictures, social media accounts, videos, podcasts, products, and more are featured on The Last Cast of the Week. Today, I’m sharing items from: Vedavoo – Adding Weight (and Micro Swivels) for Better Fishing Sage – …

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My Other Fly Fishing Writing

The astute reader may have noticed an anomaly this week on Casting Across. None of the content was original. Well, it was original in the sense that it was me. I wrote it. Unless you read all the way down to the postscript on the bottom of each article, you wouldn’t have known that both …

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