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Layering

It may be cold, but winter is still the time when a lot of folks go fly fishing.  It isn’t always fun to continually break the ice out of the guides on your fly rod, or have your legs get numb because they’ve stood in the water for hours while you cast, but the rewards of a gorgeous Steelhead, a late-run Salmon, spawning Char or big, migrating Arctic Grayling sure can make it worthwhile. Most winter anglers know how important it is to do what is called “layer-up” before heading outside.  Howeve

12/15/2015•Cecilia Pudge Kleinkauf

The Bad Hair Day

The Bad Hair Day is one of my go to minnow flies.  This fly darts and dives and moves unlike any fly before.  This fly landed some of the largest Tarpon we hooked in Tabasco. Hook: Favorite Streamer Hook Tail: Craft Fur, Flash Body: Reverse Tied Craft Fur Keys to tying this fly: Make sure you leave a little of the under fur in the Craft Fur, it provides a little bulk giving this fly a little larger profile. Have fun with colors on this fly, don’t be afraid to try something unusual. DUN Magazi

12/15/2015•Dun Magazine

Taking on Tenkara

A few years back, when I first ventured into the world of fly-fishing, I remember my friend sending me an advertisement for something called a “Tenkara” rod, accompanied by a message that we should check these rods out for our backcountry adventures. I also recall my immediate rejection of the idea of tackling a new style of fishing.  My immersion into fly-fishing was still very fresh, and shedding the comfort of my reel not only seemed unappealing, it was out of the question.  Easily brushing o

12/15/2015•Jenny Sullivan

Household Chores

I shirked my household chores today.  First a latte.  Then I wrangled the canoe on top of the car.  And a second latte.  I was ready to go fish.  At a lake with plentiful, large and easy Bass.  At least that’s what I was told. So a short drive ensues.  Unload the canoe.  Make sure coffee cup doesn’t tip over as I launch the canoe.  And I start fishing.  And I catch some fish.  Small Bluegills.  A Sunfish.  But they’re fish. And there are the turtles.  The lake is so clear I can see them sever

12/15/2015•Carmen Hardin

Fly Fishing at 13,000 Feet

When I was preparing this article and thinking about my first fly fishing experience, I was inspired by a quote by Mahatma Gandhi .  “A country’s society can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” My best friend, Andres Vidal,  has been my biggest influence through my fly fishing learning process.  One day while talking about fishing, he told me “When you feel the vibration of the fly rod for the first time, when you capture and land your first fish on a fly rod, Gandhi’s words will bec

12/15/2015•Mayra Angelica Martinez Molina

Fishing With the Big Boys

My first day saltwater fly fishing dawned with promise.  Efren, my Captain for the day, pointed our bow east into the rising sun.  Small pink and blue cloud puffs and a slight choppiness on the water were the only reminders of the storms that had preceded our arrival.  As we gained speed, the salty air rippled through my hair and a familiar calm filled my heart.  One of the joys of fishing is often simply being on the water in a beautiful place. We pulled up near a small plastic buoy.  Dorado,

12/15/2015•Karen Margaret Hall

Mercury & Dragonflies

It’s always interesting for me, being an aquatic biologist and angler, to look down into the water and see the diversity of life on the bottom of a beautiful stream.  It wasn’t until recently during my time researching invertebrates, that I now go out to a stream while fishing and wonder how much mercury, a neurotoxin, is in the body of the small critter my fly is trying to resemble. Billowing smoke stacks of coal burning industries fill the Midwest.  These rolling fumes contain mercury (Hg) th

12/15/2015•Megan Hess

Zen Fly Fishing

I was recently asked by someone I had just met, “What do you do?” I paused before responding because that was a loaded question. Where do I start? What don’t I do? How to answer this question? A list of optional responses flashed in my mind in that micro-second of a moment. I function as the glue that holds my family together. I’m a mother and do all that motherly stuff –even with a college student.  I’m a wife, and although that’s completely different from being a mother, there’s a nurturing, l

12/15/2015•Karin Miller

Home Waters

In 2008, Lynn Camp Prong, a stream in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was closed to fishing to restore native Southern Appalachian Brook Trout to their home water.  Like the ‘brookies,’ I have always considered it my home water.  It has always been a favorite place for our family and only a short drive from our home in Townsend, Tennessee.  The end of the gravel road where the trail follows the stream is the place we love to fish, hike and play as a family.  Throughout the past seven yea

12/15/2015•Charity Rutter

Martini Adventure

Last year some women friends and I took a trip to the Bighorn River in southeast Montana for dry fly fishing.  It’s a tail-water river known for a trifecta: Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and White Fish.  They tend to be large and wily, even the ‘whities.’  While my friend, Terry and I fished our arms off last year for trout, my friends took another approach; a more leisurely approach.  Their guide, they announced, was taking them for a day of Carp fishing with Martinis.  A picnic they said.  All we

12/15/2015•Ann Bode Nash

Curiosity

These days, I have to remind myself that I’m still new to fly fishing. From an early age, I was fortunate to be exposed to skiing, hiking, and backpacking. I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, so I’m no stranger to stunning mountains, water, and fresh air.  For years, I had a peripheral awareness of fly fishing and a slight curiosity about the sport — but it wasn’t until this year that I finally decided to take my curiosity a step further. In April, just as I was in a solid routine

12/15/2015•Claire Topalian

Tom & Jerry Cocktail

Cocktails don't always have to be on ice and this one is the perfect hot cocktail for those cold snowy winter nights! 2 tbl Tom & Jerry Batter 1 oz Dark Rum 1 oz Brandy 1/4 cup Warm Milk Tom & Jerry Batter: Beat egg whites into stiff peaks and set aside. Next cream egg yolks with sugar 1/4 cup, vanilla 1 teaspoon and rum 1 tablespoon per egg yoke. Then fold the egg whites into the beaten yokes to create a light and fluffy batter. Build the cocktail in a warm coffee cup.  Place the batter in t

12/15/2015•Dun Magazine