The Fly Fishing in Yellowstone blog posted a wonderful essay describing his brief escape from the monochromatic whiteness of winter.
I sympathize. Most of my yard is covered in snow, yet 30 minutes down the canyon, the grass has already turned a vibrant green, and spring is underway.
Still, if you were to ask me, I’d say […]

First there was Fly Fishing in Yellowstone — the Yellowstone-based fly fishing blog that churns out local and regional fishing information in awe-inspiring quantities, then spends the off-season doing weird (but interesting) stuff.
Reading Fly Fishing in Yellowstone is little like spending a whole fly fishing season in the area, only without the mosquitos and grizzlies. […]

Women represent a sizable (and fast-growing) chunk of fly fishing’s huddled masses, yet — with a few exceptions — they’re not much represented in the magazines, and women in fly fishing’s "celebrity elite" are more curiosity than commonplace (then again, maybe they’re too smart to become fly fishing "celebs").
If it’s one thing we stand for […]

Here’s one I wish I’d though of — fly fishing’s Top 10 overused words and phrases. The Day Tripper just fired up this crowd-participation post, but listed only nine played out phrases, expecting his readers to supply the final one.
Head on over and leave a comment — before some rat bastard posts your worn […]

I’m way behind on a lot of things (including book and blog reviews), so I’m going to fire off a couple of blog notices right now.
First, we’ve got the Neil Creek Chronicles — which right now is holding a closeout flea market near-giveaway of some excess equipment.
 
An interesting read — their latest post […]

Ever since Rogue River guide Dave Roberts and I ran into each other on the Upper Sac (both of us casting bamboo fly rods and wondering who that other idiot was), we’ve been fast friends.
He was Best Man at my wedding, his duties largely confined to quick-drawing a flask of Irish Whiskey at opportune moments, […]

I’d love to say I had a crystal clear vision for this nascent fly fishing blog network I’m piecing together, but suffice it to say that someday, somehow, I’d love to be in the business of helping good writers build something useful.
With that in mind, joining the Trout Underground and Singlebarbed on the Underground Writer’s […]

I stumbled across Gale Rainwater’s photography blog and Web site (actually, he stumbled across us), and I flipped over the work.
While it’s not fly fishing specific, it speaks to one of the things most of us fly fish for — the stunning, unspeakably beautiful outdoors.
It’s proof that craftsmanship still exists in the digital world. […]

 
Thanks to Alex at the iconoclastic Daytripper blog — who’s running a “Stuff That Sucks” series (in opposition to his own “Stuff You Need” posts) — we found ourselves face to face with an Anti-Spring Ridge Club Web site that Underground Tackling Dummy Donny Beaver probably doesn’t love. From their “About” page:
This site is […]

 
Buster Wants to Fish looks like a collaborative fly fishing blog written by some of our favorite self-described “dirtbag fly fishers” — along with a few names I don’t recognize, but will certainly come to. Their mission?
Broadcasting from high atop the Bilgewater Building in Dogpatch USA, hello and welcome. We are a small […]

It seems no one’s indifferent to “The Movie” — Robert Redford’s adaptation of Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It.”
Depending on who you’re talking to, it either persuaded you to try fly fishing, ruined fly fishing, saved fly fishing, or overran the sport with trendy, gloss black SUVs. (Do golfers feel the same way […]

Photo courtesy Tamanawis blog (we hope)
I’m starting to become mesmerized by the idea of fishing Scotland, especially when the Tamanawis blog describes the terrain in terms like this:
The North is really about the lochs. There are thousands of them, scattered all across the land and each one with a particular character. It’s probably a good […]