Fly Fish Stories
See, They’re Not Imaginary Friends.
Turns out the voices in my head are real – real live fly fishermen. And boy howdy was there ever a full-on hatch of them at the Paramount Theater last night. It was the annual fly fishing film festival in Austin and The Professor and I had a blast catching up with fishy friends. This [...]
One Fish Two Fish Redfish Crawfish
At the start of this spring break week (back during our Sun-Mon New Orleans stint) my dad and the Professor were set to go redfishing with Louisiana guide, Brian Carter. Unfortunately the weather was crudola, cloudy and windy, so they had to call a raincheck. No worries, my mom and Little Chick and I enjoyed [...]
Lagniappe Juice
“Lagniappe” is a term frequently used on the Gulf Coast and it means “a little something extra.” Well, we enjoyed a little something extra on our family spring break today in the form of a truly one-of-a-kind flyshop. In downtown Fairhope Alabama there is a quaint cottage struture called The Church Mouse. Proprieters Spencer and [...]
Chick Stories
Off to Seadrift
FFC is on her way to the coast. As of 10pm at the Palmetto checkpoint, team paddlefish was doing great and banking hours!! Here is a photo from the Staples portage. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
Go Team
Team Paddlefish in full force at race registration. Spirits are high — and according to race officials so is the water on the lower Guadalupe near the coast. The race will start but they will monitor flooding in South Texas. In the meantime it was a great day with family, friends and fellow racers. [Posted [...]
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having breakfast tacos with the chick while learning how to blog – the professor [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
The Great Race Is Finally Here.
Still gun-shy from last month’s race delay, I don’t want to jinx anything but it seems the Texas Water Safari is actually going to start tomorrow, July 10th at 9am. Ah! Can you believe it is finally time?? I am signing off from the blog until the race is done and I am back in [...]
Hardest Working Man In Fly Fishing
I have just returned from three days of fishing in Montana where the rivers are big sky high and the fish are eating way down low in funkytown. Despite these challenges we had a dynamite day fishing the Big Hole with guide and friend, Eric Thorson, who in our minds has officially earned the moniker [...]
Clif Notes
It’s been an interesting and chaotic few weeks. I am writing to you on my phone from the minneapolis airport so bear with me as I share the cliff note version of the recent roller coaster. Fifteen days ago we were geared up and ready for the texas water safari to take off. My dining [...]
I’ve Been Following Mack Brown Around for the Better Part of Four Decades
Mack Brown played football for Vanderbilt in 1970 when I arrived on the scene in Nashville, TN – as a newborn. Much later as a college freshman in 1989, I arrived in Chapel Hill just one year after Mack Brown took over as head coach there for the Tarheels. In 2000, I was two years [...]
On The Mend
I will be totally honest with you, I’m not great at mending my line. Give me an upstream mend…put a mend in it for me…get that line above your fly…don’t move the fly…too much mend…too little mend. Argh. I have never truly mastered the finesse of the mend. Too much, too little. But somewhere along [...]
Big Hole Short Report
38 degrees yesterday on the big hole. cold cold rain all day start to finish. fished with eric from sunrise flyshop in melrose who worked as hard as any guide has ever worked out there. miserable weather…epic fishing! caught brooks, cut, rainbow, browns. on streamers, nymphs and dries.more detail when my fingers thaw…HUGE thanks to [...]
Of All The Gin Joints
Today was our first day in Montana and we’d planned a full schedule of errands in Dillon. I was even going to hit the YMCA bright and early to knock out two hours of exercise. But a nutty travel day landed me here in MT in the middle of the nite with no luggage, no [...]
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