After a week of practicing my back-cast presentation (BCP) using slide-loading (see previous posts), I felt like I have that cast down and was ready to try something new. I realized that when I’m doing the BCP, I am getting the timing right because the cast is across my chest making it easy to watch … More A Thousand Dollars for Ten Feet
Our club recently had a fly casting clinic. It was well-done by the casting instructors and very much appreciated. I think the instructors did a great job. I think the new casters learned a lot. I signed up too but it wasn’t for beginner instruction, I simply wanted some time to get help on a … More Slide Loading Back-Cast Presentation Re-visited
My casting repertoire for a long time has lacked a good back-cast presentation. I have been trying to compensate for my lack of a good back-cast presentation with off-shoulder casting. Recently on a tarpon trip my son was on the bow and I was on the back taking pot shots after fish got by Chris. … More Slide Loading for Back-Cast Presentation
My oldest brother Don owns and operates Breambugs.com and he has told me over the years that the Ligon Breamkiller has always been the best selling fly that he sells. It’s a simple fly, available in six colors but black and white appears to sell the best. Don started including a data sheet with Ligon … More How to Fish the Ligon Breamkiller – By Don Davis
I guess I’m just out of the norm. I like to practice casting to get better, faster and hopefully catch more fish. I come up with different challenges out in my yard all the time and I absolutely know it helps to keep practicing and the challenges help keep me interested. Casting to sighted fish … More 🎣 FISH — A Fly Casting Game
I have a tarpon trip coming up soon and I’m doing my best to get in shape, physically and in skillset. Tarpon show up in the hot months and so I’m trying to get better acclimated for the heat by getting out in it, climbing the steps at work and walking the neighborhood in the … More Tarpon ready…
I ‘ve been doing it all wrong. Yep. Last year I thought my little neighborhood lakes were fished out due to a number of my neighbors allowing friends to come in and bait fish the heck out the lakes. But that’s just typical fisherman thinking in that if you’re not catching fish then “somebody else … More Bream Plinking
Yesterday I slipped off to the neighborhood pond late to catch the bluegill rising to midges, craneflies and whatever else it is they sip towards dark. To my surprise I had company. A gear fisherman was on the opposite bank throwing a buzzbait and retrieving it. The sound and scene of that buzzbait chopping the … More AI AI Oh!
We had a short warm spell last week and I tried to take advantage of it with a little fishing. I made a trip down to a lake near Port Gibson, thinking I would wade the water lilies which make the lake almost unfishable in the summer but are only stalks in the winter. No … More Slow and Small/Never Seen Anyone Fish Like That/Dwarf Crayfish
I’ve been having so much fun tying my tiny UV “Crayfish”. My wife Cassie has kept in good humor though she has been bearing the brunt of it all. What I mean by that is she is asked to look at and admire, with appropriate oohs and ahhs, every new creation. Apparently she hasn’t just … More Is it Crayfish or Crawfish?
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