Fly Fishing Adventures: Memories From Florida To Maine And In Between

by | Fresh Water

2006 Fly Fishing Video

Joey’s reflective fish tale inspired me to look back on last year’s fly fishing journies. The past couple weeks have been tough going as far as the weather is concerned. Sub – zero temperatures coupled with near record, lake effect snow “events”, as they refer to them here. Most places in Oswego County have seen well over 100” of the white stuff over the past six days and it is still coming down at this moment. Unless you have a good pair of snowshoes Steelhead fishing is more or less a pipe dream. Being pinned down the past few weekends has allowed me the time to sift through some digital memories and bring them back to the forefront. While watching the images dance by on the monitor it threw me back in time for a spell. I could almost feel the tropical sun of the Everglades, hear the optimistic song of the American Robin on the Delaware, and feel the strong surge of a Treasure Coast albacore. The past year has been an absolute blast. I truly enjoyed seeing a ton of new water, meeting people who are just as passionate about fly fishing, catching new species and learning different fly fishing techniques that are exclusive to a certain an region. At this point it seems like spring mayfly hatches are light years away, although I guess it is a good thing to sit back and seek a little shelter from the storm now and then.

8 Comments

  1. Boz on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Wow…
    I’ve been dug into the couch, watching movies, and tying flies awaiting the end of the deep freeze…my wife and I were just researching our fishing trip to Finland this summer and I saw this new video posted…
    Nice rewind Whippa!
    Thanks for sharing your flyfishing flashback.
    This is just what we all need to keep the fire for our sport burning while we are in lockdown mode.
    Thanks bro!

  2. Luke on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Nice video Dave. This time of year is horible for flyfisherman. Videos like that help us through. Thanks for posting it. I’m going crazy. I’m thinking of heading down there in the beginning of April to get a fix. Maybe we can fish together again.

  3. jinxed247 on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    And the snow continues to fall up here too. Thanks for helping get me out of a funk. I can’t wait for the snows to end. I live just north of oswego county and we seemed to be catching the tail end of whatever kept hitting oswego county. Thanks again for the video.

  4. NiC on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Nice vid. I really like the diversity in the fishing year.
    Can’t wait for the spring…

  5. jeremy on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    sweet stuff whippa … i am glad that 2006 was a year that i got to share in some of your stuff (delaware, steelhead, spring rainbows in tribs )….. and you got to share in some of my stuff (maine, rhode island etc…) … i can’t wait to come and try my luck on the big D again this spring and looking forward to some more steelheading hopefully sooner than later … and as you know, your always welcome with me on any of my stomping grounds … hard to believe how much we did in 2006 … i can only imagine what 2007 will bring … charge up the camera.:)

  6. jason-c on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Great vid Dave. I can’t wait to get out fishing with you. Hopefully some spring steel?

  7. joey on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Great post whip…I enjoyed watching the past years fly fishing memories. Looking forward to making more in 2007. I didn’t recognize kranes without the mammoth of a beard 🙂 ….think spring.

  8. colehatch on November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

    Great stuff whip. These vids keep that fire stoked in all us during these colds Feb days.

    Keep’em coming everyone…nice work!