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 […]
Harry S Truman – A Love For Fishing
A couple years back, dad and I were returning to Missouri to do some fishing…and had made our way east from Kansas, where we had been pheasant hunting. We decided we would pull in and take a look at the horrible tornado damage that had occurred earlier that spring in Joplin and in doing so […]
Shoulder Surgery And Good Fly Casting Technique
I am currently 51 years old and the sins of my past are catching up with me; no, I am not confessing any murders and I don’t think I have any skeletons in my closet but what I have is about 40 years of overhead mechanics…that have finally caught up with me. I won’t go […]
Cedar
A time for all events in life; Ecclesiastes 3:2 says it like this…”A time to be born, and a time to die”…in verse 4 it goes on to say, “A time to weep and a time to laugh”. So it goes…nothing new under the sun. This past month of January was a tough one, shoulder […]