As usual the Heart Of America Fly Fishers annual winter outing at Bennett Spring State Park near Lebanon, MO December 5th through 8th was a big success. Everyone enjoyed the picnic Saturday and the dinner that night at Ollie’s. Some trout were caught and released and this time the weather even cooperated (if you didn’t …
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Two days on Arkansas’ White river with outfitter Miles Riley of Riley’s Station is like two days in trout fishing heaven. On a recent two-day float I caught Lots of rainbows, one brown and a couple of cutthroats. No monsters but fast and furious action and no crowds. To top it all off we saw …
You won’t find anything like this in fly shops. It’s a variation of my conehead bunnybou, the bass fly that catches channel cat. Notice the tail material is not a bunny strip. But what is it? Looks like squirrel tail only smaller. Give up? It’s a chipmunk tail. How do you get a chipmunk tail? …
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing began in 2005 serving wounded military personnel at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who were returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then it has expanded nationwide, establishing its highly successful program in Dept. of Defense hospitals, Warrior Transition Units, and Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and clinics across the …
Thanks to my buddy Brent Frazee I had the opportunity to fish Riss Lake in Parkville, MO this morning. Got up at 4 AM to fish early and neither of us caught a decent fish ’til 10 o’clock. We could have slept in! The fly that did this three pounder in was a #2 black …
Jason Lucas wrote it, right there in black and white. Would he lie to a fourteen year old kid?”Cast your popping bug so it lands softly between the lily pads, let it sit for as long as you can stand it, then twitch it a little and hang on to your hat” That was 1949 and …
You know you need to fish more when your boat becomes a tree nursery. I recently had to harvest my boat. Got a good crop of little maple trees. Now all I need to do is fish more before it fills up with snow.
Mildale Farm, located at 35250 W. 199th St. Edgerton, KS, is a Johnson County Parks & Recreation event facility featuring 22 rolling acres adjoining 600 acres of future parkland. A huge equestrian-style barn serves as the main building and is surrounded by several smaller buildings. The barn is available for weddings, reunions, …
