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Posted Monday, May 07, 2007

The ShoutFish blog feed is now closed.

Pheasant Tails. Tied by The Mad Fishicist

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Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007

These beautiful Pheasant Tail nymph variations are tied by The Mad Fishicist.


With respect and gratitude, thanks TMF.

The springtime sun sets, treading on a mountain pheasant's tail.	Yamadori no o o fumu haru no irihi kana
Yosa Buson

From opax-flyfishing

How to Make Five Guys Lick a Horse

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Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007

"Jack Smola recently was guiding a group of fly fishermen through a valley in Patagonia when tragedy struck. 'We broke a bottle of wine while on horseback,' Smola said, grinning over coffee at his home on Hazard Avenue. 'Man, I've never seen five guys lick a horse before.'" Mike Cummings writes in Connecticut's Journal-Inquirer about guide Jack Smola.

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

Spey: The Rod of a Thousand Long Casts

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Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007

Chris Santella writes in The New York Times about the advent of the double-handed rod in the U.S. and why it received such a warm welcome among steelheaders. "'When I was introduced to spey casting in the U.K., some anglers were using a rod called the Double-Built Palakona, manufactured by Hardy,' said Simon Gawesworth, one of the world?s pre-eminent spey casting instructors. 'It was 18 feet long and weighed 54 ounces ? a rod for real men.'?

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

Steelhead on Ohio's Vermilion River

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Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007

There are still a few weeks left in the run of spring steelhead on the Vermilion. Steve Pollick writes about local fly fishing guide Steve Cutcher and his favorite tactics. "This time of year, Cutcher is seeking 'dropbacks' - fish that are done spawning and slowly are sliding back down to the lake, or fresh-runs, still silver-sided and just in from the lake. Either way the fish are aggressive in mood and ready to slash at streamer patterns, which mimic minnow-size meals." In the Toledo Blade.

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

Book Review: Tapply's Trout Eyes

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Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007

"While the nor'easter hovered over Maine earlier in the week, a copy of Trout Eyes by New Hampshire author William G. Tapply arrived at my home, a superb collection of 28 fishing essays. What a merry twist of fate to have an excellent read for such a foul week of weather, one of those books that ended far too soon." Ken Allen reviews William Tapply's most recent book on MaineToday.com.

You can read an excerpt from Trout Eyes on MidCurrent. Trout Eyes on Amazon.

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

Sore Shoulders in the Eastern Sierra

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Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007

"Last trout season, two writer friends of mine flew into Los Angeles to fly-fish the Eastern Sierra. The guy from Cheyenne, Wyo., wore a big black Stetson. The one from Brooklyn wore red sneakers. They both dragged gigantic rolling duffels weighted with fly-fishing gear." T. Jefferson Parker and friends head to California's eastern Sierras and fish Hot Creek for the hard fish, Rock Creek for the easy. In the Los Angeles Times.

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

Colorado Caddis: Three More Degrees

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Posted Friday, April 20, 2007

Those who keep track of such things (hey, they even monitor the numbers free-swimming larvae and emerging pupae) say that the spring caddis hatch is on the verge of popping on the Arkansas River in Colorado. "Wild brown trout will feed up. Fly fishers will emerge from the woodwork, and shop owners will have precious little time for fishing. Three more degrees, and the fiesta begins." Ed Dentry in the Rocky Mountain News.

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

Vieques, Puerto Rico: The New Florida Keys?

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Posted Friday, April 20, 2007

Noting Lefty Kreh's remembrances of the old days in the Florida Keys on MidCurrent, Greg Breining's New York Times article on Isla Vieques traces the many similarities between the island that sits off of the east end of Puerto Rico and the Florida Keys of yore: namely plenty of fish and no fishing pressure. "We were searching for the spirit of the Florida Keys of a half-century ago ? before the crowds, before the fast boats, before the sophisticated tackle and the high expectations ? a place that exists these days only in Francis Golden watercolors and in the imagination." Another parallel not mentioned by the author: parts of the Florida Keys were also once used as a bombing range.

From MidCurrent Fly Fishing News

A fishing trip

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Posted Friday, April 20, 2007

Wyatt has been fishing.

4 Rods w/Reels, 1 Camera w/waterproof case and 1 Landing Net:
~2.3 Sport Units ($2,300)
Recovering your boat, intact and with oars:
2 Sport Units
You and your pal crawling out of the river, living and breathing:
Priceless.

Read the full story at Flytimes "Old Timey" Fly Fishing Blog.

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