Tag: cornucopia

Returning to Home Waters

What is the definition of home waters?   Is it the water where you have spent the most time creating memories or is it the place where your heart and soul are most fully engaged?  Is it possible to have more than one home water?  How about in very different geographical areas?   Do the people, as well as the landscape, make up the ingredients of home waters or is it the species of fish that live there? Possibly each and every one of us has a very different reason why we call certain waters home

10/1/2016•Nome Buckman

Giggling

The summer came to an abrupt halt as my three daughters loaded their backpacks and marched off into the first day of the school year.  As they began 6th, 3rd and 2nd grades, I reflected on the giggles, questions, snuggles and smiles of these rambunctious girls. Our family owns and runs SaraBella Fishing.  We build fly fishing rods, especially for women and girls.  We believe that women are smart and beautiful, from the inside out. We started this company to build excellent equipment that is art

10/1/2016•April Archer

By a Thread Book Review

DUN knows the important history of women in fly fishing.  We believe that knowing this history gives us a firm foundation to build our future.  By a Thread, by Erin Block is just that.  A history lesson that lets us in on a secret we already know, but many do not.  Women have been involved in the world of fly tying for a very long time.  Written in a stance of retrospection, Erin takes us on the long journey of women fly tiers from the heart of the nineteenth century to today.  Cleverly written

10/1/2016•Dun Magazine

Fish the Cut

The call went something like this: “Mountain High Fly, this is Sara.” “Ah, yes.  Hello. I’m Bub, the rep in your area for______.” “Hi there, Bub.” “So I hear you have a new fly shop.” “Why yes, I do.” [How astute] “So you’ve owned a fly shop before?” “No.” “So then you must have been a guide…?” “Nope.” “…Well whatever possessed you to want to open a fly shop?” “We needed one.  Anything else?” Bub didn’t really have anything else except a now defunct sales pitch falling on deaf ears. I thought t

10/1/2016•Sara Cahn

2 Large Salmon

We had completed our first and second day of fishing for the wild Atlantic salmon on the majestic Grand Cascapedia River and I was skunked.  Peter, my husband and fishing partner for this trip, had landed a 15 pounder on a Bomber and lost a large one on a wet fly on day two.  Angling can be more challenging in August especially if the water levels are at rock bottom and warm.  The salmon seek deeper and cooler waters.  I ended both days thinking the scenery was spectacular and most people would

10/1/2016•Sylvie Malo Clark

Hot Bass Flies

So you’ve decided to target largemouth bass. As with any kind of fly fishing, there are loads of options as to which flies to pick.  This article will help make that selection a little bit easier with these five top flies for bass.  Two things to consider; are you are fishing lily pads or more open water?  If you are fishing lily pads you will want to go surface and weedless, if you are fishing more open water, subsurface flies seem to work best. FROGS: Weedless frogs drive bass crazy!  You wil

10/1/2016•Megan Berns

Sangria Oro

Ice Cubes 1 Apple - Sliced 1    Orange - Sliced 1     Lemon - Sliced 5 oz Apple Cider 1/2 Lemon - Juiced 2 oz Vodka 5 oz Licor 43 12 oz Cava In a large pitcher combine ice and fruit.  Add the cider, lemon juice, vodka, Licor 43 and chill.  Just before serving open a chilled bottle of Cava and carefully pour into the pitcher.  Stir and serve immediately. Punch drinks are a staple at DUN gatherings.  If you're thinking about the water-downed drinks you would get at the church functions o

10/1/2016•Dun Magazine