Well, that is the common saying, but in this case, it’s a lie. My preferred ride on most days to the fishing spot of choice is my Zero DSR. It’s an electric motorcycle with hard case side bags.  I can plug in once a week or so and I’m ready to go out for a…

The first two posts discussed the simple leech and the creation of another favorite large morsel, the crayfish. This post will briefly discuss the ability to create one more important food item by simply relocating the one material that made the leech a crayfish. The third pattern of this series, a favorite of the larger…

PART TWO All aspects of our natural world are interconnected in so many interesting ways, and the more I take time to learn about those interdependencies, the more I am amazed at the complexity in even the smallest systems. It all starts with geology. The limestone makes the water more alkaline and the steep topography…

My previous post went into a brief discussion of tying and fishing one of my favorite streamers, the leech. There are days, however, when fishing a piece of water that I’ve covered several times before, that I feel the need to throw them something different. More times than not that choice is a crayfish. When…

November. Haven’t touched a trout in weeks. It will be alright. We’ll slide through the holidays and January will be here before we know it. The bobbins are threaded. New, stronger reading glasses are on the tying bench. It’s time to spin up some bugs.  My tying usually starts based on how I plan to…

PART ONE I finally spent time getting the garden in. After being so responsible I definitely needed to take a break and head out fishing. I head out around 3. Conventional wisdom would say that would not be the best time to fish on a cloudless day with the temperature approaching 80º. I checked stream…