This past weekend I had the opportunity to work with a young man who wished to be introduced to fly fishing. Before beginning his first lesson, I set him up with a Pflueger rod and reel kit. The same set that my father bought me when I began fly fishing. Although the package was supposed [...]

I was at Harkness Beach State Park for a social outing yesterday evening. While there, I walked down to the shore to speak with a number of fly fishermen that were gathering toward the evening. While discussing the different fish runs, and accepted patterns, I noticed that the majority of the fishermen, and women, were [...]

This past week I spent time scouting out, and fishing, a local pond here in northeastern Connecticut. It was my first time fishing this specific body of water, so I met up with the owner of the property to discuss the ins and outs of fishing there. After a few minutes of conversation, he began [...]

Although I enjoy the reliability and strength of my modern graphite, Pfueger rod, there tends to be a great joy in casting my grandfather’s handcrafted split bamboo rod. The rod is a ten and a half foot bamboo rod that he acquired long before I was born. My grandfather passed away before I was old [...]

Regardless of how much experience one might have fly fishing, there are those few problems that everyone faces at one time or another. One of the most common, and unfortunate predicaments that occur when fly fishing, is wind knots, or ‘birds nests’ as they are commonly referred to. 
These pesky entanglements can result from numerous [...]

Every year, it seems that there are a number of reoccurring problems that every fisherman faces when fly fishing. One of the most common problems is in relation with the lines. Besides the problem of windknots and ‘birdsnests,’ there is an even greater problem that can arise to to dirt, dust, and other foreign substances [...]

When I was about ten years old, I was out fly fishing on the river behind our house. My day was wonderful. Trout were biting, hatches were rising, and it seemed as though everything was just grand. Unfortunately, this beautiful state of affairs was brutally interrupted by a sheering pain that ran down my hand. [...]

I learned a very interesting trick yesterday. I was helping my brother launch his sail boat, and in all the hustle, my cell phone fell into the water.
My cousin was standing nearby, and suggested placing it in a bag with dry rice. The rice was able to draw all of the moisture from the phone, [...]

I was walking through a large outdoors store yesterday, and I was looking at new fishing products. I came across one product that is very useful, but was very overpriced, and led me to write this blog.
The product was a package of three fur strike indicators, and It was priced at close to four dollars. [...]

In the battle against corrosion, the later are the three most destructive substances to reels, lines, and flies.
Fly-fishing reels are extraordinarily more simplistic, and easier to maintain than most spin, and bait-casting, reels. The traditional fly reels, excluding ‘auto-stripping’ reels, consist of two major body pieces, and a simple drag system. Proper reel maintenance begins [...]