Spey rods and Switch rods are new to me. In Europe I saw salmon fishermen with extra long rods and figured, “OK big fish, big rivers you need a BIG rod”, sort of like boat rods for salt water. Fast forward to today. Steelhead fishermen on the West Coast have been using Spey rods for…
The sign by the road read “BAIT WADERS FLIES GUIDE SERVICE.” Simple enough, it stood in front of a ramshackle cinderblock building that was painted a shade of green that failed to blend into the brushy surroundings. I almost passed it by but a sign in the window read “OPEN” so, feeling curious, I pulled…
If you jump out of a perfectly good airplane, mountain climb, are in law enforcement or the military you expect that you might get injured, possibly fatally. In fact for major sports participants the general statistics show that there are 9.5 injuries per 100 participants. Football has the highest injury rate with hockey next. I…
It had been a long productive day chasing brown trout for my friend Bob and I. We were sitting in his office-library-fly tying room soothing our sore arms and reminiscing over past adventures. I had prescribed a dose of twelve year old, single malt as pain medication. Time passed and as we talked, I noticed…
The MANISTIQUE RIVER in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is not listed in any fishing guidebook that I know of as a premier fishing location. Hemmingway wrote about the Big Two Hearted River and other locations in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and each year you can find fly fishermen that want to retrace Hemmingway’s adventures. I have never…