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Newest Fish Tale
 Bonefish: There's A Lot That Goes On In The Crazy Minds Of BoneFishermen
Posted by flyfshrmn82 on February 20, 2010 (601 reads)
My fingers lead the way with my hand and arm close behind in the attempt to hit the snooze button. It’s 4:45am. As I felt my way across the bed, my hand hurdled the gap between the bed and the night stand, but it falls a little short and jams one of my fingers into the nightstand. There’s nothing like a good case of expletives early in the morning to get the day off on the right foot. I begin to drift off again, until the sudden shrill of the hotel phone starts to ring (I love wake up calls). “They put these damn things right next to the head of the bed. Why do they have the ringer turned up so loud?” I ask myself as I reach over to answer it. I am awake now. Today is my last day, I have to get a bone on fly. I pack up all my gear, food, beer, and clothes and fire up the Yota. The humidity is up, the heat has already started, and the skeeters never sleep. Today is going to be a hot one for sure. I check out of the hotel, crack my first beer (5:30a), and make my way to Bob’s casa. I pull up to Bob’s house and find that he has already backed the trailer up to the boat, and is milling around the garage. Yep you guessed it, it was hot, humid, and skeeter abundant over there too. The game plan is discussed and we load up our gear, food and water and hit the road(6:00a).
We pull up to Don’s bait shop only to
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Iraq: A Bad Day On The Euphrates River
Posted by TroutBone on February 14, 2009 (4326 reads)
Just wanted to say how good it makes me feel to come back on to this site. Jeremy and the guys couldn't have done it any better. Therapy it seems or feels like, as I read and look at all the pictures and stories again since I left for Iraq at the end of November 2008.
Just for you folks out there that don't know me, I too came to this site as a curious seeker looking for that instrument in education and insight to better myself, and an opportunity to make new friends from around the world. Having the passion for fly fishing takes over a lot of things in life, in my case anyway, the stress from military life and the chaotic 6th deployment I went through. This is not to bolster anything about my life or what I have accomplished, but to talk about how one website became a reason in my life to feel back to normalcy and regain a lot of what I lost.
6th January wasn't a routine patrol, my Lieutenant, had to go out to another patrol out to FOB Kalsu to turn in his payment paperwork for the SOI (Son's of Iraq) insurgency group working with coalition forces.
I took the remainder of the
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Great Lakes Fly Fishing: Steelhead (Steelbow Rainheads), 9 Lives If Ya Need One
Posted by jeremy on November 18, 2008 (1956 reads)
Great Lakes Steelhead Video
Call them steelhead, lake-run rainbows, steelbow rainheads or anything you want. I call them big, bright and lots of fun. Some of my most memorable fly fishing memories to date, involve fly fishing for steelhead and brown trout on Lake Ontario’s seemingly unlimited tributaries. Considering that Lake Ontario is the 14th largest lake in the world boasting an impressive 7,340 square miles and huge sources of forage; it is no wonder why steelhead and brown trout species thrive, naturally reproduce and grow big. I recently read a statistic noting that 40% of the lakes steelhead are wild and that number continues to increase. But, when it comes to what I personally like most about Great Lakes steelhead fly fishing; it has less to do about statistics and more to do with having fun chasing steelhead with new and long time friends. Most trips involve early mornings, late nights, beautiful stretches on big pristine water, small/remote creeks, urban rivers, swinging flies, nymphing, tough days, good days, rain, sleet, snow, sunshine and lot’s of laughs. This trip was no different. The cast of characters was Alex from Argentina, Joey from Colorado and Boz and myself from Maine. There were also a few “extra” characters and friends who happened to be there at the same time; Kory from
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Saltwater Fly Fishing: A Flies & Fins Saltwater Fly Fishing Video
Posted by jeremy on December 20, 2007 (3332 reads)
Saltwater Fly Fishing Video
I don’t know what I enjoy more about saltwater fly fishing, the variety of species I pursue or the cast of characters I meet during the pursuit. Saltwater fly fishing is still relatively new in many respects. The saltwater fly fishing legends like Chico Fernández and Stu Apte helped to define the sport of saltwater fly fishing; hence there is a wealth of knowledge as it relates to species like bonefish, permit, tarpon and places like the Florida Keys, Belize, Bahamas etc.. I live in Maine and I make fly fishing trips a couple times a year to places like Mexico or the Florida flats or the Florida Everglades; but those are not my home waters and those are exotic trips for me. I am amazed at all the fly fishing opportunities that my buddies down in Florida have available to them. Exotic fish such a bonefish, tarpon and permit are only a bike ride away. Through Flies and Fins, I have been fortunate enough to expand my personal fly fishing network in way that boggles my mind. I feel blessed for the fact that when I go to Florida, I have friends like Dave Tepper of fliesandfinssouth.com, to share with me their networks and intimate knowledge of the fisheries they know so well. With that said, I often notice that when I travel to these type of “exotic” saltwater fly fishing destinations that the fly fisherman whom I am fishing with know
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