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VIDEO: 2 Books For Young Fly Fishers

Kids are going to read things that they find interesting. And if your child or grandchild enjoys the outdoors in general or fly fishing in particular, the two books I’m sharing today are surely going to go over well. First, one of the most popular illustrated fly fishing books out there: Down by the River …

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Podcast Ep. 350: Father & Son

Just because you put a fly rod in a baby’s hands doesn’t mean he’ll grow up to be a fly fisher. But in the case of my eldest son, it is working thirteen years in. Recently he asked to go on a fishing trip to one of the places I fished most as a teenager.  …

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The Good Fly Fishing Guide Life

I’m a fly fishing guide. I’m not licensed or insured. I’m not formally endorsed by any  fly fishing brands. I’m not listed in an online directory or affiliated with a shop. You’re not going to see a section on this website with  random smiling sports holding trophy fish. I do have experience, though. Not only …

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Fishing Footsteps, II

His first groggy words of the morning expressed his desire to fish the Letort. He knew what he was getting into. An avid reader, he had been picking random volumes out of my fly fishing library for years. He had seen the pictures of the weeds and read the dour words of those recalling the …

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Fishing Footsteps, I

Of all the angling destinations out there, why drive all the way from New Hampshire to south central Pennsylvania? Maine’s wild and expansive opportunities for fish are closer. So too are those of the Catskills, which had to be crossed to get down into the Mid-Atlantic. And even our home state has ample water of …

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Let Them Touch Bugs

I am not an entomologist. I am not even the kind of fly fisher who  is proficient with insect taxonomy at the species level. But I do know a few things about bugs. And I am aware that they can captivate an 8 year old in a way that very few digital things can. Over …

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Casting Across on the Untangled Podcast

Even though I talk about fly fishing into a microphone for about half an hour every week already, it is always a great experience to hop on to someone else’s podcast. A few weeks back, I recorded with Spencer Durrant of the Untangled Podcast from Ventures Fly Co. We talked Casting Across and fly fishing …

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The Fly Fishing Show: Kids’ Highlights

Days and evenings spent at various outdoor expos are important for Casting Across and a lot of fun for me, personally. But there is a three-hour chunk of time that gets written in ink on the calendar by my kids. Since 2018, the boys get a morning or afternoon at The Fly Fishing Show in …

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Top Fly Fishing Books for Kids

There are few gifts that you can give a child that can have as much of an impact as a book. Between the valuable skill of reading and the even more special benefit of reading together, a book does things that few toys or electronics can. A quick search online will yield plenty of titles …

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