For me the show season comes to an end for winter 2010. Other than a club meeting talk I’ll give in Tennessee next month, the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show was my last gig of the regular season. It’s been an action packed seven weeks of hard work and great fun, however now I will gladly … Read more
November 20, 2009 It’s possible this was the last day of float fishing for 2009. For when we hit the boat takeout at dark this evening, we felt the temperature plummeting and smelled snow in the air. Winter may finally be arriving. This was a special day on the water for more reasons than the … Read more
Thousands and thousands of air miles, airline cuisine (yuck), endless hours waiting in dirt strip airports for lost luggage, journeys across oceans and continents, sleeping under the stars, a tree branch, a tent, in the dirt on or near a critter colony, hundreds of yards of trashed fly lines, pounds of lost streamers, dries and … Read more
I left the house in the dark this morning to meet friends Dennis Butcher, George Kuvinka and Jay Buchner, a well known fly tier of Jackson Hole – truly one of the best I have ever seen. I owed Dennis a guided trip to fly fish for carp and today was the day. It’s normally … Read more
What has over 3,300 files, 1,375 pictures, 8,900 internal hyperlinks, big fish stories (we don’t talk about the dinks), a compilation of fly fishing news reports, flyfishing movies, excerpts from fly fishing books, personal recommendations for products, outfitters, guides, fish art work, travelogues from the far corners of the earth and believe it not, much, … Read more
This is the start of “Currier’s” first blog. It’s something I probably should have done a long time ago but knew that I’d never stay on top of it enough to make it worth it. Now it’s time. And I have time now because 23 years of working in the Jack Dennis fly shop in … Read more