Your Personal Catch & Release Record
It’s not often that you see anglers return from the water with very little to say, especially if they have even less to show for their efforts. To say the fly fishing was tough in the 3rd leg of the TOPS Corporate Challenge would be like describing this world-wide pandemic as a mild head cold. Wind is reviled by anyone trying to throw a line and having to deal with a howling NE sucking into […]
For once the naysayers, me included, got it completely wrong. We always watch any incoming weather with trepidation and automatically assume the worst especially when we see a front looming. And we had every right to be worried this last weekend, a max of 3 degrees predicted, with winds up to 7 meters a second, definite rain, sleet and probable snow, it was an anglers worst nightmare. Fishing to a backdrop of snowcapped mountains is […]
After 20 years of watching fly fishers pit their wits against the wiles of feral Trout, you would think that we’ d seen it all, yet every year at the TOPS Corporate Challenge something happens that beggars belief. Usually it’s antics off the field that never fail to amuse and provide anecdotes that decades later still have us in stitches. We’ve had anglers take on Jersey bull’s ( no prizes for who came off 2nd […]
How smart do you think fish really are? I mean it’s not as if they’ve managed to crawl out the water……yet we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure them out. There’s a lot to consider when throwing a fly at a fish and some might say a little too many variables when it comes to the temperamental movements of Trout So what is real food for thought and what is […]
To tube or not to tube is a shouldn’t be a dilemma. Although targeting Trout from the bank and stalking a fish is the way to go on arrival at any dam (as long as you get their at the proverbial crack of), to not jump in your float tube when fishing any decent sized dam is just limiting your options. The design of any established still water means that accessibility is limited from the […]