I’m a bit of a gear junkie. I love good gear and I love good technology. I can also tend to be a brand snob. When I got into fly fishing back in the day, I wore Simms boy’s waders, casted a Sage 9’ 5-wt Light Line and
Seated in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, Noontootla Creek Farms is a private hunting and fishing preserve, consisting of 1200 acres and two miles of premiere trophy trout stream. My great grandfather, Frank Owenby, a businessman from Marietta, Georgia purchased this property we now call home in 1954 in
This is the current view from my office window…in Tennessee. I moved here from Chicago four years ago because I wanted to be somewhere warm, without that white stuff, and without the single-digit temperatures. To say I feel like I was sold a bill of goods this morning when
Much has been written about the role of women in fly fishing over the ages, and much more has been forgotten over time. Women have always fished and have made many notable contributions to advancing the art and practice of the sport around the world. The record of many early
So, you’ve procrastinated like the rest of us, and you still have to buy for the difficult fly angler on your list. But what if you don’t know the first thing about fly fishing? What if you don’t know what they already have? At this point, it’
Ho-Ho-Ho Happy Holidays! Now that the turkey has been consumed, you've done all the shopping you care to (or should) in person, it's time to finish up that shopping list. Look no further! The ultimat fly fishing holiday gift guide has arrived! No doubt if you
The idea of “time flying” is never more evident than when one becomes a parent. Sure, it’s something that adults say to kids growing up, but the gravity of the words never really takes. Sitting in third period geometry seemed eternal, as did waiting to turn sixteen and get
Fly fishing can create memories that last a lifetime. It's something Angelica Talan previously touched on in her 'Creating Memories One Fish at a Time' post, where she shared how fly fishing became her and her daughter's haven — a source of happiness, a chance
I pity the woman who doesn’t have a sister. The lucky ones have ‘sisters-by-birth’ but if that’s not an option, you can still have ‘sisters-by-choice’, and organizations like Sisters on the Fly (SOTF) are a great place to start. As the largest women’s outdoor group in the
I love it when a company that makes great products already comes up with a totally out of the box (or in this case INSIDE the box) idea. It’s no secret that I’m a big conservationist. I’ve been shouting it from the riverbank for as long as
Saturday, September 12th at 11 am in every time zone something incredible is going to happen. Female fly anglers from across the globe will begin posting photos of themselves at fly fishing events or doing something fly fishing related. This is the start of something great. This is International Women&
Hopper-dropper in early Spring, late Fall, and wait, even Winter? I became serious about the dry-dropper set up, outside of grasshopper season, after starting my journey with tight line nymphing. I was quickly addicted to jig-hooks, tungsten bead nymphs, landing big fish on a 3 wt 12ft rod, with 6