Alex Cerveniak of 40 Rivers to Freedom and the Hatch’s Blog network is creating yet another endeavor documenting all possible fish foods and the flies to represent them.
Entitled, “Eat the Fly” it’s an ambitious undertaking that will contain the common food items and insects available to fish, offset by some of the fly patterns used [...]

Friend Roughfisher is adding his expertise to the USCARPPRO ezine, with a monthly column on flies for our favorite Cyprinid. It’s a great fit and a monstrous ezine, 150 pages of technology and insight into all forms of carp fishing – most of which we never knew existed.
Fly fishermen have more than our fair [...]

I was reminded last night that I hadn’t been completely forthcoming. The fly shops call it “holographic tinsel” – typically charging between $1.50 and $2 for a small spool.
Joanne’s Craft’s calls it “Sulky Holoshimmer” and rather than the traditional size spool, sells it in the elongated bindle for $3.95 for 250 yards. It’s only available [...]

The Daily Flypaper blog posted a fascinating video of the 1.3 million dollar fly tying system from Intuitive Surgical…
… which is a bit misleading, it’s actually an Intuitive Surgical robot showing off what it can do. ISRG has been the darling of Wall Street for a number of years, considered best of breed for computer [...]

An impressionist has the attention span of a small child. The fact that I tried it their way for more than six minutes gives me the license to bend all the rules. Curved hooks and razor points, and why should Caddis be the only beneficiary?
As a purely fact finding exercise I’ve extended the Czech style [...]

Singlebarbed reader “TwoRod” has pointed us all towards saving a few bucks. His comment about 1/4” clear elastic as a substitute for the commercial “Super Shrimp Foil / Scud Back” products is the best replacement I’ve seen yet.
I went to eBay to see whether it can be purchased cheaper than the retail link Tworod [...]

You take the green Nyquil and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red Nyquil and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
I don’t think someone sits down to invent anything, genius just doesn’t function that way. Great ideas [...]

Fog is starting to lift and I’m gripped with the fervor. A slim chance of fishing this weekend – and unsure whether the ills of recent server issues are behind us…
We’ll test her out by slamming a big JPEG or two into the deep end and see if she holds.
The cure for the common Winter [...]

Most of you swore next season would see you with fly boxes bulging – and absolutely nothing has been accomplished despite the mighty oaths to the contrary.
I’ve always used the Exorcist model of offseason restock – wherein book or article induced “possessions” fight over my immortal soul, and the result is one less agonizing chore.
The [...]

There’s little doubt I prefer the technical references to the feel-good fly fishing memoir, both have their proper place, but when I reach for text I want a question answered, skills increased, or broader knowledge of an unfamiliar yet burgeoning subject.

Czech nymphing has  fascinated me for a variety of reasons. It’s the “Cinderella” story mostly; small [...]