Yesterday I landed a 5 pound Brook Trout in the North Fork Shenandoah River using the Tongariro Roll Cast. I learned the cast from downloading and watching the above video of the Tongariro Roll Cast performed by Andrew Blake, a local fishing guide from Turangi, which is located near Lake Taupo in Ne...

“Don’t play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It’s a seduction.� - Al Ries and Jack Trout, Positioning Advertising stopped working a long time ago, prompting Positioning theories and strategies from Ries and Trout. We’re discussing it next week in our weekly Ge...

I pulled this cutbow out of a sewage drain top shelf waterway not long ago: It smacked a streamer like a freight train, and was quite the tugger. Chunky as well, which shocked me when I looked at its right side - a clearly deformed mouth and gill plate. Didn’t seem to matter to this fish (it t...

So yesterday I flew down to Chicago to see the Amanda Palmer show. It was wonderful. I was going to sign for people with Amanda afterwards, but a deadline was growling at my heels so I nipped back onto the tour bus and wrote something for the Independent on Sunday that was meant to be a Christmas Gh...

One of my favorite streams to fly fish at in the Shenandoah National Park is Jeremy's Run, which is located on the west slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and which is not that far from Luray, Virginia. The backcountry hike in along the Jeremy's Run Trail up the mountain to Elkswallow on Skyline Dri...

The vegetarian lifestyle is really a wonderful opportunity, in that it gives so many people different and unique experiences.  You can dabble in it or jump full in.  You can go vegan, or just avoid meat.  There’s complete freedom, and so many benefits — social, health, environmental, ...

7/13 Mention Grayling and most fly fishermen think of Alaska or Canada.  But Colorado has its own Grayling population as these fly fishing videos show.  Fly Fishing for TROPHY GRAYLING & COLORADO RIVER CUTTS #1     Fly Fishing Adventure for MONSTER GRAYLING & Colorful COL...

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7/10 There is a persistent myth that using a big fly will help catch a big trout.  That fellow fly fishers is just not true. While it is true that larger trout tend to seek out larger prey, it is not always true. Trout survive by one major rule.  Energy received from the prey must be ...

Yes, I played hooky yesterday…literally The weather was supposed to be perfect, and the flows were top notch. There was a full to waxing moon. It’s mid-June, meaning there should be plenty of bugs around. I felt lucky, so I ditched my class and visited the Brown Trout School instead. The...