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[24 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Top 10: Played Out Words in Fly Fishing | ]

It’s time for our Annual Top 10 Most Played out Words or Phrases in Fly Fishing. Those words/things/phrases that have been used so much recently, that they’ve lost their cool.

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[24 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Top 10: Played Out Words in Fly Fishing | ]

It’s time for our Annual Top 10 Most Played out Words or Phrases in Fly Fishing. Those words/things/phrases have been used so much recently, that they’ve lost their cool.

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[24 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on From the Words I’ll Never Get Sick of Hearing Dept. | ]

From the Words I’ll Never Get Sick of Hearing Dept. comes this gem…

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[23 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Chocolate Milk | ]

I normally don’t make it a habit of fishing around other anglers, but with all the rain we’ve been getting, my choices for where to fish have been drastically cut down.  Last night I fished a spot on the Mohawk where a nice sandbar stretches out from shore, which let’s me get within casting distance […]

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[22 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on An Emerging Dragon | ]

I ran into this dragonfly nymph yesterday afternoon at the edge of a local pond with it’s head and thorax sticking out of the water.  About 5 minutes later, my son and I got to watch a pretty cool show.  I think I took over 50 pictures of the transformation from nymph to adult, here’s […]

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[21 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Ripples | ]

The Flyosopher just posted a brilliant article on leaders for fly fishing http://trunc.it/gyd8 #
Hatches unleashes HD fly fishing videos- in a lightbox http://trunc.it/gzow #
huh, starting to see twitter content in my google alerts. What’s the world coming to? #
today rocks #
RT@DepartureBooks Need a Father’s Day gift for a fly fishing dad? http://www.departurepublishing.com #

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[18 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Serious Superstitions | ]

If you come back to camp after a long morning on the water to find that your tent has been chewed on, trampled, and shit on by cows;  you’ll get skunked that evening.

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[16 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Under the Cover of Darkness | ]

Other than those creepy glowing eyes that follow me during the hike in and out of a spot, and all those bugs that fly in my mouth when I turn my headlamp on, fishing at night is probably one of my favorite times to be on the water.
I love the whistle of the fly line […]

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[14 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Two Pictures Speak 2000 Words | ]

I love how the algae reflect off the silvery sides of this Beaverkill Brown Trout.

Yeah, it was a good day on the water.

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[14 Jun 2009 | Comments Off on Ripples | ]

Google unleashes it’s mapcam on biking/hiking trails http://bit.ly/eWYlB #
Northern Michigan Trout fishing for Seniors http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2009/06/10/outdoor/doc4a2fd07270e82203586844.txt #
good stuff @fliesandfins http://www.fliesandfins.com/article902.html #
NY Outdoors Blog writes about new & old canoe/kayaking guide books http://tinyurl.com/kjz7×2 sounds like a good source for new fishing spots #
NY Rep. Hinchey pushes for disclosure of chemicals used in natural gas ‘fracking’ http://tinyurl.com/msmemm […]