Dutch Baughman, a fly fisher from Texas, has this excellent website with PowerPoint presentations free to download. The website is intended as a personal resource to explore your fly fishing journey. Each Fly Fishing Topic includes a slide presentation or document you can download to your computer free of charge. Read More »
Mike Kirkpatrick is a Kiwi guide and movie maker. He recently posted a brief video on YouTube on how to handle fish. Excellent drone footage of fighting the fish. Pretty good demonstrations of best practices. The only admission was no mention of the benefits of barbless hooks. Read More »
“How not to break your fly rod” – Joe Mahler
At one time or another in every fly fisher’s life he will find himself quietly looking down at a broken rod. That sinking feeling. Maybe it was a favourite, or maybe it’s the night before a bonefish trip. Read More »
Double your line length in a single cast without false casting, with Joe Mahler.
Any fly fisher knows that stripping in and lengthening – or “shooting” line – is part of the fly-fishing process. Understanding how and when to lengthen line will sharpen your shooting and make a significant difference in ease and performance. Read More »
As fly fishing continues to grow in popularity, with enthusiasts targeting almost any species imaginable, it’s important to remember the principles of proper fish handling with a few tips and reminders. In this recent article from Flyfisher magazine, Sascha Clark Danylchuk provides an excellent overview of the “catch” in catch and release. Read More »
From Harvard Mahony Neuroscience Institute‘s On the Brain newsletter.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the avid fly-fisherman and physician James A. Hensall, MD, elucidated what for many is the allure of that often solitary form of angling. “Fly-fishers,” he said, “are usually brain-workers in society. Read More »
From RiverKeeper Flies
If you fish long enough, at some point your fly boxes will wear out and need to be replaced. The question is what to replace them with? It’s something I dealt with recently and why I’m writing today about choosing a fly box. Read More »
“Life Matters” – ABC Radio National, Monday 13 August 2018
What can spending time in nature in search of wild trout teach us about ourselves, our mates and our relationship with the environment?
Master fly-fisher, scientist and storyteller Greg French talks about his passion for the wild, the friendships he has made through fishing and how concern for the environment is the driving force in his life.
You enter a store that specialises in fly rods. Your aim – to purchase your first fly rod. The store owner approaches and describes the brilliant fishing to be had in the mountain streams. “Wow”, you exclaim. “What rod would you recommend if I go up there?”
There are a number of types of fly lines, one of the common differentiators of these is fly line density. Fly lines have different densities, each density is used for a different method of fly fishing. At the highest level, fly lines either float or sink.