Tag: bella vita

Italia

My husband and I are fly fishing partners and owners of an antique fishing tackle business called Angling Artifacts. We reside in and operate our business in Los Angeles and we find it a challenge to locate beautiful, unique and productive fly fishing spots nearby where we live. For that reason, the majority of our fly fishing trips have been in the Northwest part of the United States, however, we feel fortunate to have fished beautiful waters in the Adirondacks of New York, the Rocky Mountains

3/15/2015•Yuriko Hirsch

The Ice Shad

This fly was created for the Great Lakes, but is at home in the saltwater, a bass lake, a smallmouth river, swung for steel or in a trout stream.  We tie Ice Wing in like EP for an EP style baitfish.  A little tricky to get the hang of at first, this fly is worth the mess it makes.  Tie one on today! American Shad - Ice Shad from Dun Magazine on Vimeo.

3/15/2015•Dun Team

The Hemingway Daquiri

2 oz Light Rum 2 oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice 1/2 oz Luxardo Maraschino Garnish: Lime Wheel Shake all ingredients except garnish. Strain into you favorite chilled Coupe or Collins Glass (with shaved ice). Hemingway’s Orginial Daiquiri consisted of 3 3/4 onces of rum with only 6 drops of Luxardo. For those of us with a less alcoholic palate, we dialed back the rum a little and upped the sweatiness. This Daiquiri is our go-to thirst quencher.  The fresh fruit juice makes this

3/15/2015•Dun Team

The Girl

My mother grew up on the water. As a little girl, she played at its banks, watched the water change with the seasons and celebrated spring’s return. As she grew, she recognized the animals that depended on the river for food, those that flew overhead, hopped about and that swam in it. She grew stronger swimming in the river’s current like the very fish that she caught and fed her. She was the girl that became the woman who taught her girl Who became the woman who taught her girl to love the wa

3/15/2015•Jackie Van Dyke

A Bucket List Must

Like all anglers I have my bucket list of place to fish. What describes your bucket list?  Is it a certain size of fish? Is it a species? Is it a destination? For me the bucket list focuses more on destination and type of fish than the size of fish. I am always interested in catching a new species in new waters. In 2008, unbeknownst to me, I happened to stumble upon a perfect bucket list destination. Two new species:  West Slope Cutthroat and Bull Trout. I discovered these two species were fou

3/15/2015•Mary Ann Dozer

Bula on the Fly

Hi.  My name is Isabella, but everyone calls me Bula. I’m seven years old and completely in love with fly fishing! I started with short walks with my mommy and daddy looking at the water.  I love water and swimming. The best part about it was seeing all the really cool stuff in nature, deer, turkeys, beautiful trees, flowers and Brook Trout on our many trail walks.  I’ll never forget the first time I saw my daddy casting and placing a caddis dry fly on the water, at the right spot and saying to

3/15/2015•Isabella

Outside the Box

Thinking outside the box can come naturally to anyone.  You have to allow yourself to come up with many ridiculous notions to let the scintillating schemes come forward.  The trick is to recognize the ridiculous from the possible. One fall day, many moons ago, I brushed by some milkweed plants ripe-n-ready to dispense seed on the trail to my favorite section of wild brook trout waters in the White Mountains of NH, the Wildcat River.  I was so eager to see those fiery bellies of the males in ful

3/15/2015•Nome Buckman

On Death and Fly Fishing

There are waters — deep and wild and holy — that guides here refer to as Fight Club. To understand Fight Club is to learn to embrace the raw hours of the early morning, the minutes and seconds and moments between bar close and the time when sensible people would be waking for their morning commute; the time reserved for insomniacs and murder mysteries. You don’t talk about Fight Club, that’s the number one rule (yes, I’m breaking the rule)— it’s a time and place defined by ethereal moments, buz

3/15/2015•Amanda Monthei

The Guide

Most women you meet in the Fly Fishing Industry are beautiful, petite badass women who work hard & photograph great ... I am far from petite, I have a cricked smile, my boobs are too big, and I only look good in pictures when I am holding a fish. It has taken years for me to accept me as I am. I’ve never quit pushing forward to do what I want to do in this life. I have been told I was too fat and too old to be a guide by a fly shop owner. I had just been offered a shop job by his manager, that

3/15/2015•Shelly Ehmer