A near and dear friend spent some time in southern CO recently. He’s the kind of guy that would travel from Dallas to wherever you needed help building a guest house, as long as you promised him some fishing. In this case he was in southern CO visiting a friend that, well, needed help building [...]
This is strictly our fucking opinion, so don’t go getting your panties all in a bunch over what a couple of douche bags from Ohio had to say about what is what when it comes to beer drinking. But in response to a recent post by the American Homebrewers Assoc., we decided that list was [...]
New Fleet Foxes record hit the stores this week. It’s good. Listen to it and then go hug a tree. Bill and I are headed North for the weekend. I will apologize in advance to all of you that are anxiously awaiting the first big hennie hatch and spinner fall on the Trophy [...]
FlyTalk Picks the 12 Best States for Flyfishing in the U.S.A. Props to MI from Field and Stream Magazine! Why isn’t Ohio on the list? Oh well. Toledo was given to OH by MI as a trade for something at sometime anyway right? A lot of us Toledoans sort of feel like were from [...]
Closing weekend of 2010 was a pretty damn good time. It was a “Randy trip”. The story below will explain what that means to me and, what I would like to think and am probably right in doing so, the rest of us. There is a bit of an explanation to go along with it. [...]
2010 was a strange year. That’s really all I can say about it. Was it kind of uninspiring? Yeah… Kind of. There hasn’t been a post here for a long time and the reason for that I guess is that we have been “wholly uninspired”. But then I really thought about it and the more [...]
Don’t they look tasty? Click the link to find out. photo from: chicagobreakingnews.com
Sunset at the Gabions. Mike with a good fish from an odd place on a bright sunny day at about noon. Said fish from above. Bill on a nice fish. Bill’s fish from the above pic. The truly impressive story about this fish is that it was caught on a dry and while that is [...]
This is a report from the “newbie” we took along with us for the ASBWPA Clean Up. To be fair, this was not Scott’s first fly fishing trip so he really isn’t a true “newbie” but it was his first weekend on the Au Sable. We asked him to put together a little trip story [...]
Jesus. When someone catches a smalll mouth on the fly this big, what do you say? “Holy mother of Christ that thing is just fucking sloppy!” comes to mind. I won’t say who sent me this (read on) or where it came from. I’m not even tagging this post too much because I can’t even [...]