I put on a full day fly fishing seminar for Desert Fly Casters down here in Arizona today. The group I taught consisted of all levels of fly fishers. I started with a basic fly casting demonstration and ended the day with the double haul. Not all casters believe the double haul is necessary but … Read more
Not much time to load a blog tonight as it’s late and I am giving a full day seminar for Desert Fly Casters first thing in the morning. The fast and short is that I’m settled in with my friends Steve Berry and Cinda Howard down here in Mesa, Arizona (See Not all Carp are … Read more
A year ago my popular coffee mugs were close to extinction. Now, thanks to my friend Harvey Cohen of the Fly Fishing Show Room, they’re all back. Even bigger news, now they’re available with any fish you want. Anything! In a matter of a few days we’ve added the Apache trout of Arizona, a steelhead … Read more
I ran the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for over 20 years. Those were some of the best years of my life and I made many lifelong friendships. At the end of each season we had a fishing party. Almost everyone went on the fun day. We caught a lot of fish … Read more
The snow has flown here in Victor, Idaho. I won’t stop fishing. In fact this afternoon I’ll be off to Thermopolis, Wyoming to spend two days on the Wind River with friends. But the cold weather does slow me down and I’ve spent the last three days working on the first of many accumulated art … Read more
October 21, 2012 Bill Sherer and I don’t like to make a habit of getting skunked. We got our butts kicked yesterday by the muskellunge and we couldn’t let it happen again. To increase our fish catching chances today, Bill guided me on a double float. We literally floated two days worth of stretches on … Read more
October 20, 2012 While yesterday was a typical mid October day in Northern Wisconsin with temperatures in the 40°s and a few rain showers, today was a warmer and mostly sunny. Whether that’s why we couldn’t budge a muskellunge to eat my fly we’ll never know. Another possibility to our lack of success was that … Read more
October 19, 2012 George booked Rick and I with the same two muskellunge fly fishing guides we had last year, Bill Sherer and John Coolidge. This was fantastic news. Rick and I hit it off with these guys and they really know their stuff. You could easily call Bill one of the pioneers of fly … Read more
I was tossing and turning at 5 this morning and finally gave up the fight. The big laker I’ve been after all week at Jenny Lake must have been calling me. At 6 I was loading my Exploder and heading back to Grand Teton National Park in darkness. By the time I arrived the sun was up, … Read more
A weather change wasn’t in the forecast but today we woke up to clouds and wind. Granny’s off and I asked her if she’d be up for hiking into Jenny Lake with me. However, she knows how possessed I get when I’m on a big fish mission and she opted not to join. But what … Read more
Rick Schreiber and I went back to Jenny Lake before sunrise this morning for a reason, something I didn’t mention in yesterdays blog. We saw a big fish, a lake trout over three feet long. The sighting didn’t happen only once but in fact we saw this big fish several times. But he showed no … Read more
My friend Rick Schreiber, the master of Jenny Lakein Grand Teton National Park, emailed me saying he saw hoards of lake trout on Jenny yesterday. As you know by now, I have a soft spot for fly fishing for lake trout. My response was simple, “Let’s go.” Rick and I were smoking cigars on our … Read more