The other night was a rare opportunity in the realm of fly-fishing. We were coming off of 3 days of stormy and windy weather and we got one of those bluebird evenings that come in the spring and make you pretty sure everything is right with the world. There was virtually no wind, the sky [...]
Posts Tagged ‘walleye’
The best laid plans of flies and men.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bass, carp, control, hatch, panfish, pike, walleye on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Love the One you are With
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fish, hatch, learning, Love, mayfly, mooney, mooneye, walleye on November 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Southeastern South Dakota, where I live, was having an unseasonably mild August. By the middle of August the weather felt like the middle of a normal September. Temperatures were warm all day with the evenings cooling off nicely. The local flora and fauna were responding accordingly. My five year old daughter and I had decided [...]
Revenge is a Dish Best Emulated with a Clouser Minnow.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bass Fishing, bucket, catch and release, clouser minnow, walleye on October 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
One thing you quickly discover while carrying your flyrod with your vest on to the edge of a river or lake in these parts is that “you ain’t gonna catch nothin’ with that stuff here.” Or even better, “there ain’t any trout in this water.” Some Busch Light swillin’ dude sitting on an upside [...]
Death by a thousand puffs.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burrito, Drift, fart, waders, walleye on October 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One of the multitude of things that flyfishing has given me is far better attentiveness to my diet. I now make sure that I put things in my body that will generally agree with it. This is not from some need to fuel myself right in order to undertake the rigors of the fishing. Nor [...]
