Remember Beavis and Butt Head? Could you identify with them? Me neither, but I thought they were funny in a junior high school sort of way. Maybe I would’ve liked them even more if they had been fly fishermen… like Orvis and Bead Head.
Category Archives: Fishing
Rockbridge Trout Ranch
Want to feel like you’re a real hot stuff trout fisherman? Spend a few days at Rockbridge Trout Ranch in southern Missouri. Nice people, beautiful scenery, comfortable accommodations, and millions of huge, hungry rainbows finning lazily in the clear water, hoping somebody will throw them a woollybugger or zebra midge. But you’d better use 6X …
Mike George ties for Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
Award winning fly tyer and Air Force veteran Mike George of Olathe, KS demonstrated his unique technique for working with deer hair for a small gathering of veterans at a Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing meeting Monday night. To learn more about Mike and his tying methods take a look at his web site www.deerhairsculptures.com …
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Catfish Cochran strikes again
Yesterday was the second time I’ve caught a big channel catfish on a fly rod while bass fishing at Kill Creek Lake near DeSoto, KS. I knew immediately it wasn’t a big bass. Bass are close-in fighters. They like to slug it out up close and personal with lots of head-shaking top water acrobatics. Old …
Lake Taneycomo
Country music isn’t all that’s happening at Branson, Missouri. Water from Table Rock dam forms Lake Taneycomo which gets its name from Taney County, MO and provides miles and miles of some of the best trout fishing in the state. If you enjoy fishing from a boat you’ll hope for lots of power generation from …
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
Project Healing Waters veterans fishing with Capt. Rick Lisek out of Lilley’s Landing recently caught and released several beautiful rainbows and browns at Lake Taneycomo.
Larry Bowser 1935 – 2013
One of the most creative guys I’ve ever known, my good friend and long time fishing partner Larry Bowser passed away recently. Larry was one of the first people I met at Hallmark when I went to work there in 1960. We fished together from 1960 until the last few years when Larry’s health deteriorated. …
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
Representing the Heart Of America Fly Fishers, Mark Borserine and I sat in with a couple of other fly tiers at the Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing meeting Tuesday night. PHWFF is an organization that helps wounded service men and women get into all aspects of fly fishing from rod building and fly tying to …
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc.
A catchphrase making the rounds nowadays is “I want to do something to make a difference”. What makes a difference varies from person to person but here’s something that will definitely make a difference regardless of your political persuasion: Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. PHWFF provides fly fishing, fly casting, and fly tying instruction …
Big Browns Like a Meal
Thanks to John and Bobbi Norman of Ft. Collins, CO for this unusual photo of a huge brown trout attempting to eat a smaller trout. The entrée of the day is bigger than most trout I catch. I’d be happy with either one of these guys (or gals) on a #22 parachute Adams and 6X …