Fishing The Off Season
“The season is ended. There was not enough of it; there never is.” – Nick Lyons DRAWING THE LINE It’s hard to say what exactly constitutes the “off” season in a province with very few seasonal closures and a long…
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The Ascension of an Angler
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.” — Tom Brokaw Like most hobbies, fishing, and particularly fly fishing, can be tainted by a certain degree of “snobbery”. Use these ten archetypes as a gauge of where you…
Minimalism and Fly Fishing
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of Mankind” – H.D. Thoreau STARTING OUT The first “fly rod” I ever had was a 12 inches…
Fishing a Hypothesis
“Fishing has been styled ‘a contemplative man’s recreation,’ … and science is only a more contemplative man’s recreation.” – H.D. Thoreau Going fishing somewhere new is a lot like conducting a science experiment. First, you start with a hypothesis—a big…