June 27, 2004 Occasionally, just occasionally circumstances and luck align in favor of the angler. Lord knows anglers get enough bad luck, it’s only fair that it swings the other way every once and a while. Call it bad luck for the fish, I guess. Yesterday I was wading the Head of Barkers waiting for [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2011’
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust gives away sweet swag!
If you care about bonefish, or tarpon, or permit, you need to join Bonefish & Tarpon Trust. And, as an added incentive they’re giving away a prize to new members only worth tens of thousands of (U.S.) dollars! They ran a sweepstakes last year (2010) and it raised so many new member that they’re doing [...]
*The FLYOSOPHER cometh…
Ok, ok. I’ve simply got to send a shout out to the blog: Flyosophy. The author–the so-called “Sean Juan” Murphy–runs (and I use the term loosely) a blog (again, loosely) that manages both occasional and prodigious output (or perhaps, throughput, is more accurate) on the subject of fly fishing… more or less. It is, I [...]
The Old Tackle Bag…
I’ve been inspired by Bjorn over at BonefishOnTheBrain to post on some of the more practical aspects of my obsession. He’s off to a magical gathering called FIBFest (while us more plebian folk are left to freeze our nethers off–metaphorically speaking). That got me thinking about what I’d carry in my pack–other than like a [...]
BREAKING EVEN: A Month in Bonefishing (Pt. IV)
June 2004 I was once fishing a favorite flat with a new fly, a killer pattern I’ll say I discovered. I’d already taken several schoolies with it from South Sound and figured I’d try it on the big boys. It was a tough morning. Intermittent light and high water made for tough fish spotting conditions. [...]
