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  • It’s official, Red Gold doesn’t suck.

    A Ben & Travis man-hug ensues as Red Gold recieves a standing ovation at it's premiere.

    A Ben & Travis man-hug ensues as Red Gold receives a standing ovation at it's premiere. Photo courtesy of Mountainfilm

    Approximately 37,000 people lined up [see photo below] outside Telluride Colorado’s Michael D. Palm Theater for the premiere of Red Gold, a venue that seats only 600. Needless to say, hundreds were turned away. With the quarter million dollar HD projector warming up in the booth, Mountainfilm’s festival security staff opened the doors and began confiscating...

Fly Fishing Without Reservations
  • I'm Your Huckleberry
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    Wild huckleberries grew atop Blood Mountain. These were unripe and amazingly bitter, but further down, ripe purple and blue ones could be mistaken for miniature blueberries (which are closely related).

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  • Fishpond Double Haul
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    The Fishpond Double Haul backpack component (the chestpack snaps off) made a great light daypack.
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  • View Inside
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    Inside the shelter, a wooden platform is all that prevents you from lying on the dirt.

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  • Surprising
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    The shelter was very small, built by the CCC in the 1930s. The chimney had been partially bricked up inside but people still made fires. As you can see, it doesn't have much of a view, but at least it is out of the weather. There are no screens, doors, or windows.

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  • How big a number is 200,000?

    It’s a pretty damn big number unless maybe you’re Wilt Chamberlin.
    In only 9 months tv.aegmedia has racked up over 200,000 watched videos.
    What started out as a beta site for uploading submissions for the Fly Fishing Film Tour and a site to house AEG clips the TV.AEG web site is morphing into a pretty sweet collection of fly fishing films, clips and teasers from fly fishing Joe’s across the globe. Clips have been uploaded from all over the world including Finland, France, Scandinavia Russia and South America to name but a...
Because we all live downstream
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope." - John Buchan
RSS: The Contemplative Angler - "The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope." - John Buchan
  • Replacing the Fishing Vest

    My fishing vest must weigh thirty pounds. It contains enough aircraft-aluminum fly boxes that, in need, I could flatten them and assemble a Boeing 747, with enough left over for a Cessna or two. Add to that my Oxygen tank and you understand my ads in the Pennysaver for three on-call Gillies or one Sherpa-lite.


    Well, thanks to the folks at DARPA (whose last known useful invention was the Internet -- and we know how that turned out) and Boston Dynamics, my Uber-Gillie is now available.
  • Foxtail Crab (claw variation)
    I posted the Foxtail Crab back in July. Testing on the pattern has been very good. It's durable, casts well and fish pick it up. I've been very intrigued by a pattern variation though that I wanted to share. It's the claw variation that you see here. I'm not big on complicated flies nor am I interested in photo realistic flies but this pattern has produced. We'll see how it goes over a longer period of time. So far so good. Stay...
  • Sunfish


    April 12 & 13, Seep Lakes, WA.
    The 'gills crowded the shallow coves and took small poppers with abandon.
    I fished for bass too, catching most of them on a bunny worm and - late in the day - two more on a deer hair bug.
Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, and what little else that matters...
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  • Rubbing It In

    No fishing last night despite the call to pursue a white fly hatch.  It only took one day of being in college to get that call.  You know the one.

    “White flies are happening, are you in?”

    “No, I’ve got a bunch of reading to do”

    No writing for me today either, still more studying to stay on top of.  I have to admit though, I’m enjoying the subject matter.

    Where to click from here? Check out these other fine fly fishing blogs-
Alistair Stewart's piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland
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  • Sleep Deprivation for Salmon and Sea Trout

    My pal has been asking me when I am going to write up the trip report for our mammoth Salmon and Sea Trout session.

    Mid July we went to a river up North - a nice private beat which usually fishes very well. It was craziness - we stayed awake for a ridiculous amount of time. Essentially getting up at 0600 on Friday morning and then trying to stay awake until Saturday night at 2400 (no fishing on the Sabbath) does funny things to ones mind. It bends it - in funny ways.

    Oh sure,...

All sorts of nonsense and punditry from the world of fly fishing.
Ozarks Fly Anglers
  • On The Road Again!
    For the next week, I will be in transit on my way to 3 glorious weeks of fishing in Colorado. I have to swing down through Dallas for a couple of days to swap out summer gear for cool weather gear...

    A Fresh look at fly fishing and the inside scoop on fishing the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas.

Drake Magazine - Bie's Blog Jam
Drake Magazine - Bie's Blog Jam
  • Why the Yucatan Rules
    One of the most common saltwater fishing questions that I get asked or that appears on The Drake message board is some variation of, I have to go to some stupid/gay/waste-of-time/soon-to-be-divorced-anyway wedding/business conference/family reunion down in Cancun. I'm

The Dood.

The Dood comes into the shop asking if we "have any emerging ant patterns." When the attempt is to made to explain why such a thing doesn't exist, he swears up and down that he was just fishing on a lake and watching ants "emerge" out of the water.

The Dood tries to get a discount on buying 6 flies, and then 30 seconds later brings up the new Orvis Helios rod he just bought.

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Drake Magazine - All Blogs
Drake Magazine - All Blogs
  • Why the Yucatan Rules
    One of the most common saltwater fishing questions that I get asked or that appears on The Drake message board is some variation of, I have to go to some stupid/gay/waste-of-time/soon-to-be-divorced-anyway wedding/business conference/family reunion down in Cancun. I'm
Drake Magazine - Hammer Time
Drake Magazine - Hammer Time
  • Excuses
    For those sad souls who can't get the angling monkey off their backs and have chosen to live well above the seasonal freezing line, winter can easily slide into a cornucopia spilling over with bountiful excuses. Much like the traveling charlatan preacher for whom the mind is willing but the flesh is weak - we want to fish, but all that whiteness, especially when it's traveling horizontally past the window, is a daunting thing.
Fly Fishing the Upper Sacramento River : Tom Chandler's Fly Fishing Life : Fly Rods are the Measure of Life
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