Prospecting for Salmo Salar
Here’s a quick photo essay of their mission compliments of Richard… [click to continue…]
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fly fishing
Here’s a quick photo essay of their mission compliments of Richard… [click to continue…]
IGFA Photo
Though alligator gar get to be the size of submarines, this 62-pound, 8 ouncer looks to be the largest ever taken on 16-pound test tippet and a fly rod and is a pending IGFA line class record.
Martin Arostegui of Coral Gables, FL, who has compiled more world records than anyone else in IGFA history, caught the big fish on Texas’ Lake Livingston on August 22, 2011 while working with Captain Kirk Kirkland.
Thirty minutes after the fish struck his custom fly, Arostegui was able to land, weigh and release the fish alive. With this catch, he kicked the living stuffing out of the current IGFA record, which is 24 pounds, 13 ounces!
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They just don’t make cool old ads like this one anymore…though these guys were way ahead of the times with the “Get hep to GEP” part!
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It happens every now and again…and I just can’t shake it: Damn you, British Columbia and your wild, emerald rivers full of leaping chrome! I just can’t get you outta my head!
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And this, folks, is why you play the game...
Here’s yet another prime example why fishing is so damn awesome: Our good friend from across “The Pond,” Richard Masters, fished the River Ribble near Lancashire in Northwest England last week. Unfortunately, the river was still high and pretty much blown out following a recent flood — and the fishing was lousy.
Masters says he threw hardware in the muddy water all day without success and then, on his way home the next morning, he made a quick stop along the river to get a feel for the new 5-weight trout fly rod he had just purchased…and then a funny thing happened: [click to continue…]
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I‘ve always wanted to go chase baby tarpon with the long rod. Why? Well, check out this video from our pal Keith Kaneko of Angling on the Fly and you’ll get the idea…
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Bowing to his Royal Airness
I did a post earlier in the week about the masochistic tendencies of steelhead anglers. Well, guys who chase tarpon with the fly a very much the steelhead angler’s “brothers from another mother.”
The endless, piercing sun; the long days of heaving a 12-weight into the wind; staring into the water for hours, searching for dark shapes on the flats…then, the pressure to make the perfect cast when a Silver King materializes out of nowhere.
Our pal John Klar is a double masochist. He guides steelhead trips all fall and winter and then heads to Florida with fluff chucking gear for some tarpon abuse every summer. He just got back from a epic mission…one in which lots of tarpon were jumped. Here, he pays his respects to the king…
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