Found the following over on ThisRiverIsWild. Not the sort of thing I usually post—swaggish vid posts—but I am legitimately jealous about this. Also, I wish to hell I knew where they were… and respect the hell out of them for not revealing that juicy bit of info. Seeing the awesomeness of this particular post you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fly fishing’
Blue Fins and All… (Pt. II)
December 28, 2000 Today I’ve decided not to go fishing. Instead thought I’d merely practice casting. There is a small flat a few minutes from home that’s perfect for this—shallow water, wide open spaces, and no mangroves to grab errant back-casts. I’d even occasionally seen bonefish there, but not today; today, it was just practice. [...]
Blue Fins and All… (Pt. I)
December 28, 2000 The year is almost out and I’m faced with the very real prospect of having fished nearly all of it without catching a single one. And I mean fished, seriously fished. This year has been an almost single minded pursuit of a frustratingly elusive creature: the bonefish. It wasn’t just a weekend thing either—though I [...]
Riding High
Riding High: A Season on the Fly from Waterline Media on Vimeo. Waterline Media presents a short film for the Drake 5 minutes of Fly Fishing in New Orleans in August, 2011. Filmed over the course of an entire tarpon season from the lower Keys to the Panhandle, Riding High shows the entire migration [...]
“More like guidelines than actual rules…”
You can’t catch bonefish until you can catch bonefish. It’s a lot like the one hand clapping thing. All the beginning bonefish anglers I know broke off their first fish, even the first few, and those are the one’s they actually hooked. There were probably a few others they didn’t set the hook on [...]
Frontiers Travel Core Angling Eleuthera Bahamas
Please enjoy this lazy-@$$ed YouTube posting. Pretty interesting stuff all around. A glimpse of the future, perhaps? P.S. Capt. T., check out 7:20, buddy. Some gratuitous goatness for ya there.
Conserving Spawning Aggrigations in Belize
This is a great example of the complexity of conservation and how to build it from the grassroots up. What does this have to do with fly fishing? Well, take a look at around 5:45 on the timeline above to see how a commercial fisherman went from killing fish to filming fish to catch-and-release fishing [...]
