Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
Fly Fishing for Carp from a Float Tube
Possibly you view a carp as a big goldfish…maybe you don’t really even know what a carp is? In the fly fishing world carp are now a pursued commodity…the freshwater bonefish as many have called them. Truth is that until just recently I hadn’t been able to actually hook a carp on a fly…but that […]
53
I’m not sure what you think about when you hear the number fifty-three. Maybe it was your nine-hole score at Cascades last week. Possibly you were a lineman in football…back in your glory days and your jersey number was 53? Just maybe you were born in 1953 or/or had a child born then and can […]
Memorial Day Weekend – Golf, the Brickyard and Fly Fishing
Wow….can you believe all us “Hoosiers” had to do over Memorial Day Weekend? It seemed like everywhere I turned there were outdoor activities…from golf to racing to fishing…and probably lots more that I wasn’t even aware of. Jonas, Dad and I were up early on Saturday; we drove south like many others did and participated […]
Top Water Fly Fishing from a Float Tube
If you are looking for a great exercise program…one where you don’t have to go to a gym, pay a fee, lift weights, run, or do exercises amongst a crowd, then try top water fly fishing from a float tube on a very windy day. I started out on a Saturday night in Greene-Sullivan State […]
Trolling in a Float Tube
As the years go by, one would hope that we get a little smarter? It doesn’t matter if it is handling money, work or even the big picture of life itself…but for sure I have started to fish ‘smarter’. There are fly patterns, lakes, streams and methods that work at various points of the year. […]
Spring Float Tubing
Sometimes just what the doctor ordered isn’t medicine; in Frank and my case the doctor prescribed a Sunday afternoon of fly fishing from our float tubes. The Frank in this case is my good friend Frank Terkhorn…many of you might know him better as our own Ellettsville True Value Hardware Owner. It doesn’t matter how […]