Getting bit by the fly fishing bug usually results in a drastic change in lifestyle. You’re out on the water all the time, soaking up any and all opportunities to practice this new pursuit you’ve been blessed to find. This is all fine and good… unless you come down with a case of fly fishing …
“But why?” This can be a very obnoxious question. Or, it could be a very revealing question. Do you know why we do what we do when we fly fish? One of this week’s questions was posed to me by a student in a casting class that I am teaching. Innocently, he asked why we …
It is a common youthful trope. Seeing your teacher outside of the school’s walls is a disorienting experience. Usually these awkward encounters occur at the grocery store or a restaurant. Especially as a teenager, one is well aware that human adults need to purchase and consume food. But a momentary zag in the usual zigging …
Although the Casting Across Fly Fishing Podcast usually doesn’t feature interviews, when it does it goes big. Today I have 5 guests in the studio. And I’m confident that they spend more time in the woods than most fishing, hiking, and hunting celebrities. Who are these remarkable figures? You’ll have to tune in and find …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
If you don’t have kids, don’t skip this episode. The reason? Kids are people. So while I’m certainly framing the content in the context of working with youth, the principles will apply to anyone you want to make into an angler. Although sometimes just taking a kid fishing is enough to get them into the …
