When I was a kid living in Western New York, I remember a news report about the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a tributary of Lake Erie, catching on fire. Even to an elementary schooler, the idea of water being aflame was pretty fantastical. Back then, the vast Lake Erie was biologically dead. Thankfully, the Cuyahoga […]
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I admit that I was fed up seeing endless online videos of fishers making thundering, yet elegant, two-handed Spey casts with ginormous fly rods across big rivers to wild chrome-colored salmon and steelhead moving up to spawn. I wanted to do that. (Spey cast–not spawn; I’ve three kids already…) So, I got my hands on
Book Review: Modern Spey Fishing by Rick Kustich Read More »
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some stout-shouldered stockers on the fly from time to time. It’s still fly fishing after all, and stocked trout can be challenging, even frustrating, if they’ve seen their share of flies. But, if given the chance, I’ll take chasing even a smallish wild trout on a natural, crazy-currented,
West Virginia’s Elk River: Wild (Trout) Wonderful Read More »
You don’t hear much about Buffalo Creek in the various Virginia fishing forums or on social media, but fly fishing phenoms (and friends) Joe Irby and Derek Hutton have been trying to get me to come down to wet a line in the stream for quite a while. I was interested, but, like everyone else
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The shad run is a rite of spring for fly fishers. This article discusses where and how to fish for shad in Virginia rivers.
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