Fly Fishing Adventures
Jeff’s summaries of his fly fishing exploits.
Upper Sugar Creek II – Video
The video you are going to watch here was shot on August 30th from Sugar Creek above Crawfordsville, between Darlington and Thorntown. The bird in the video was an Osprey that swooped down and snagged a nice fish then flew over me … unfortunately you can’t zoom with a GoPro. This is a great place […]
Hillenbrand FWA
The skies were angry…overhead it had become very dark; I trained my ear to the west listening for a rumble of thunder as I made yet another long cast with my Winston 3-weight fly rod. On the other end of my fly-line was a shad popper-as it settled down upon the blackish water I watched […]
Upper Sugar Creek
The smallmouth bass is quite frankly…one of the top fighting fish anywhere; certainly here in our local waters of southern Indiana these striped beauties will fight you like a hungry bulldog. Maybe if we had trout in our local waters I would spend time chasing a toothy brown but smallies are just an epic fish; […]
Mid Summer Smallies – Video
The video you are about to watch was filmed in early August on a small creek here in southern Indiana. The water is low and clear … and that makes for some pretty spooky fish. The first smallie I catch is interesting in that it has a large crayfish that was just recently eaten … […]
A Night With The Vet
From 2000 to 2009 (ten years) I coached boys golf here at Edgewood; you might say it was the best and worst of times. I got to spend a lot of time each year with different young men that were aspiring to be good golfers…now I’ve said many, many times that golf is different than […]
A Summer of Fly Fishing
4,152 miles, 7 states, lots of outdoor adventures…oh, and lots of fly fishing. By the time you read this column, school will just about be open, again! That is hard to believe as school seems to start earlier each year; right now my focus is on as much fishing as possible. June 22 found me […]