2020

“As with a faint star in the night’s sky, one can better understand fishing’s allure by looking around it, off to the side, not right at it.”  – Holly Morris And at other times, fishing can become like a lodestar guiding us out of troubled waters. The Big Wood As you can imagine, with spring break, school closures, and the…

“Selectivity is a simple reflex pattern.” – Ernest Schweibert The trout, driven by instinct, will reflexively feed upon the dominant insect of the given season, the food source in which it has become accustomed to eating due to sheer abundance. And the angler, driven by custom, will select and utilize the same flies and techniques upon which they have had…

“More than half the time, a trout will refuse your fly not because the fly was wrong but because it was not behaving properly.” – Tom Rosenbauer Then there is that other half of the time when no matter how precise the presentation, how light the tippet, or how well-behaved the fly, the trout still refuse to be fooled. These…

“I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where fish are found, which are invariably beautiful…and, finally not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally important—and not nearly so much fun.” – Robert Traver Chief amid the concerns of anglers…

“I suspect that a sense of humor is the most valuable thing an angler can own.” –Jim Harrison If you are heading to the river this winter, there are several things an intrepid angler should not be without: layers upon layers, waders without leaks, and boots with studs. Check. A net and a flask, or a net that is a…

"Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.” ― Theodore GordonChoose your metaphor for time: it flies,…