When the sad day comes and your waders are pin-holed, seam-taped, and hot-patched beyond saving, you have only a few choices (Common Threads isn’t quite there yet): Burial is often first on the list, preferably with a dousing of single-malt (for both you and the waders). This option, however, tends to create a long-lasting landfill [...]
I originally wrote this for the Federation of Fly Fishers’ newsletter, “The Loop.” Figured it couldn’t hurt to post it here, too. – – – – – – – – – - In the U.S. leader and tippet material diameters are typically measured in thousandths of an inch, with tippets also given an additional “X” [...]
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For those who attended the Bend seminar last week, here is the trout leader post/page that I referenced during the leader-building session. I figure that it is easier to just re-post it so you don’t have to dig around the blog. Put those three-turn Surgeon’s Knots to good use… – – – – – – [...]
Versions of this little article have floated around various magazines and Web sites over the years. Not the most glamorous of fly-fishing topics, I know, but an approach that can be of real help when conditions warrant. – – – – – – – – – When fishing the small stuff, a strike indicator of [...]
Okay, enough of the “re-loading” and “new stuff soon” posts—here is some actual new stuff (while chunks of this article have appeared in various forms elsewhere, they have not appeared at FF&W, so I’m going to call this “new”). Actually some of the following includes excerpts from the book, Presentation (penned by my father), so [...]
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