Rod Crossman Things have secret lives, according to Neruda. And the longer I live, the more I believe it. Things have secret lives, especially bamboo fly rods. Pablo Neruda was Chile's most beloved poet, and in an article urging poets to focus on simple things, he said it was "wise to scrutinize useful
Lou Tabory's tips on Casting Sinking Lines
Rod Crossman After much begging the kid gets the keys to his dad's truck and drives to the fly shop in town. There he is talked into more flies than he wants, and a new powder flotant-highly recom-mended-and a spool of 5X. He spends all his money. Then he leaves. He drives the father's truck back to
Rod Crossman The river, as Hemingway said, was still there. It was there in 1919, swirling against the log pilings of the railroad bridge in Seney, Michigan, while he fished it, feeding grasshoppers downstream with his fly rod and silk line. It was there in 1925, when he sat in a Paris cafe, writing
BC's Elk River is spectacular in the fall
Traver Award-winner Jeff Day Donna Chiarelli The results of the 2007 Traver competition have left us shocked-but only in a good way. If you'll remember, we announced earlier this year that we had decided to experiment with changing our 14-year-old "fiction" competition into a "writing" contest in order
Just A Lovely Day
We're pleased to announce that Kirk Hall of Evanston, Wyoming, is the winner of the 2007 Fly-Fishing Film Festival
Who Needs Grayling? A special fish struggles to hang on in the Lower 48
Fish stories; flies for Northeastern salt and a guide's guide to Alaska
Large Matukas: Big browns at twilight and dusk? Here's the fly...
Tom Balenti, chef, restaurant owner
TU's Turmoil I am writing in response to Jeff Hull's rather lop-sided piece [July/October] that would have its readers believe a controversy over stream access has crippled Trout Unlimited. Nothing could be further from the truth. The organization's professional and volunteer conservation programs are
The Scoop On Loops Casting loops, loop-to-loop connections-and getting fish on the reel
- By: Buzz Bryson
- and Paul Guernsey
