Back In The Saddle Again
1939 was a long time ago; you old country music buffs might actually know 1939 as the release date of Gene Autry’s famous theme song? Even if you aren’t an old country connoisseur…you might have recognized it more recently in the 1993 classic movie starring Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan…Sleepless in Seattle. As the lyrics go; “I’m […]
Back In The Saddle – Small Mouth Bass Video
The following video was shot on February 22nd here in southern Indiana. It is entitled Back in the Saddle because I am just coming off a shoulder surgery and when combined with a very long and hard winter…it has been 53 days since I caught my last fish, about 52 days overdue! It is a […]
Line Control When Fly Fishing
I recently found this excellent fly fishing article written by Eric Stroup and taken from Common Sense Fly Fishing. I came across this while reading from MidCurrent Fly Fishing. Eric goes in depth and discusses one of the most fundamental elements of casting and catching…line control. He discusses that to be effective you have to […]
Fly Line Tapering
Here is a well-done column/post that I recently came across while skimming through Twitter (aka X). The piece is written on fly lines and their tapering…some of you may already understand how important a taper is to a fly-line but if you don’t…please give this a read and keep the basics in mind the next […]
Dwight D Eisenhower – Fly Fisherman
I must admit that I saved the best of the best for last when it comes to fishing presidents. President Eisenhower, Ike for short, was well known for his golfing…but the truth is that he spent as much time fishing as he did golfing. Ike loved fly fishing in particular and in his later years […]
Herbert Hoover, Another Fishing President
Man’s life is but vain, for ‘tis subject to pain, And sorrow, and short as a bubble; Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, And care, and money and trouble But we’ll take no care when the weather proves fair; Nor will we vex now though it rain; We’ll banish all sorrow, and […]