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The Magic of Fishing in The Rain
With this Covid-19 stay at home order going on, I’m not fishing nearly as much as I had been for the previous several months. Not even close....
Why We Fish
The matter of why we fish is something I’ve pondered far more often during the last ten years of my life, far more than ever during the first sixty...
Just Fish
There’s a lesson Covid-19 can teach us as anglers. We fish. We fish with flies, and worms, and big heavy poles and finely hand-crafted bamboo rod...
Fish Desirability
On maybe my 5th time fishing in Florida, I hooked something hot. This fish tore off line and streaked off to my left, tearing line through the surf...
Timing
We’ve all heard the cliche “timing is everything.” Whether it’s asking your boss for a raise, buying stock, or shooting an iconic sports photo, tim...
From Salmon to Snook
Faced with the prospect of moving from Washington to Florida, I wasn’t thrilled. I grew up fishing trout in the Cascade streams of Washington and t...
Improving Fish Handling
Muhammad Ali said, “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” It’s a simple message: that one shou...
Redfish
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that over the last ten years or so the redfish’s stock has really been on the rise. It seems like lots of people h...
What We Can Learn From Borax, Jell-O, And A Size 22 Adams
Now if you’re a salmon, steelhead or trout angler, you’ll immediately know the “why” to this puzzle. If you fish for bass, crappie, snook, tarpon, or dorado, to name but a few, the correlation between borax and salmon might not be quite so clear.