Hello all, I just found this newsgroup. I am very interested in fly fishing but have never done it though I have spent a GREAT deal of time bait casting and...

BJ Conner wrote: Sorry to hear about your friend. I have been involved with one close call in cold water. I'll take Frank Reids suggestion one step...

1) Am planning to visit m other next weekend and if there is some really neat special kind of fishing to do, tell me about it and I'll do it. Otherwise I'll...

Some folks post their fishing trips, and others rant and rail, some other folks post politics, and some folk send junk mail, worst of all of course are those,...

Went to the show with Allen Epps. First thing in, we saw a presentation on fishing for smallies with Harry Murray. Very good info. Wandered around, buying...

The politics of nature Bush has said his environmental strategies won't harm nature or man--a claim some doubt Chicago Tribune , December 19,2003 by Julie...

My sentimental favorite was eliminated in OT after Bret Favre threw up a wounded quail. What was he thinking ? And my hometown favorite bit the dust because...

What test pound correspond to around .21 to .25? That seems to be what the butt size will be for my leader. What is that, 20 - 40 pounds

Bad news for my St. Louis Cardinals, Houston has assembled arguably the best starting rotation in the National League. I gotta wonder though, after 20 years...

If you buy a frozen farm raised duck from the grocery instead of shooting your own, you should drop it in boiling water to cover and when it comes back to a...

I bought this and am really unhappy with it. It looks no different that 30 pound flourocarbon tippet. It doesnt seem like it will cast worth ****. Am I...

The calendar tells me that tomorrow is January 14, the last day of the signup period for the FS2004 Great ROFF Fly Swap. The total now stands at 36 swappers....

At the College Park show I picked up something called a Magic Tool. I watched Kim Boals tying flys with this thing and was intrigued. Lou was watching also...

Custom tied flies: Standard dries: start at $5 per dozen Standard wets & nymphs: start at $5 per dozen Salmon flies at $12 per dozen Sal****er single hook at...

John Lindsey wrote: What new fly tying materials are out this year? Seems that razor thin foam sheets, artificial fibers, stretch laces, colored cones...

What seems like yesterday, but was actually 20+ years ago, I was a big fan of the Baltimore Colts, the Team of Johnny Unitas, Bert Jones, Lydell Mitchell, and...

Settling into work and a Winter mode after returning from the San Juan. Now's the time of year for me to daydream about next year's trips. Over the past year...

Saw somethin' on the discovery channel this mornin' about ravens who observed trout ice-fisherman positioning lines into a fishin' hole, only to have them...

Beautiful day here today, the warm before the storm, we're supposed to get an arctic blast any day now. Hound and I walked over to your mom's yesterday to...

In one week, we went to a 100-year record breaking high of 61 deg to a 125-year low of -12 deg. I didn't have the nerve to go fishing at 12 below. Scott