Fly Fishing: The Art Of Escape
Humans have an innate need to escape environments they find dangerous, boring, distasteful and/or toxic in some real or implied way. All living things need to be able to escape things that may be harmful to them. With people as opposed to animals, the drive has a much wider scope of reason and purpose. Humans...
Fly Fishing: A Natural Drug
Have you ever heard someone yell “fish on!” at the top of their lungs and watched people run to get a better view? When you are in that same moment and your state of happy awareness overcomes anything on your mind, nothing exists but your fish! It is the rush you feel when it all...
Fly Fishing: Time Flies
How fast does time pass? That depends on your present activity! Time is generally measured by distance or a clock. In our minds time is also measured by our “concept of time” which is directly and highly correlated to the activity you are participating in. What you are doing at the time dictates how you...
Fly Fishing: A Validation Of Freedom
Over many years and through many different experiences I find fly fishing the most freeing experience outside the coffin. This is a sport where even weather has little or no effect on your activity (ruling out hurricanes, tornadoes and any weather of similar severity), with the proper clothing and rain gear. Freedom of thought, not...
Fly Fishing: Times You Remember & Try To Forget
Everyone has bad memories, whether related to childhood, a death in the family, war, or a myriad of other things that occur during the course of one’s life. Whatever these things are, they seem to intrude, in aggregate, just as you have reached your stress limit. When you are stressed out, your mind tends to...
Fly Fishing: The Simplicity Of It All
If, while talking to friends you bring up the subject of fishing, everyone knows or has a concept of what you’re talking about. Fishing is a concept that every one gets. The dynamics are simple; long stick, a length of line, and something a fish would bite with a hook in it. Now, there is...
Fly Fishing: The Allure Of The Fish
I have been asked many times why I go to such lengths to fish and have wanted to respond; “to escape the absolute drivel that comes out of people like you!” Of course I don’t, and probably shouldn’t because people who need to ask, won’t understand. Why is it that on the weekend I am...
Fly Fishing: Don’t Fight The Current
Splash! A huge fish just came up just outside of your casting range upstream on the outer seam of the current. How many times have you crashed against the current just to slip, trip or fall in, when you could have just stepped out of the water walked up the shore and waded in within...
Fly Fishing: It Is What It Is
The world outside of flyfishing can be a rough place. Currently, the housing market is down, financial markets are down, banks, cars…and as a result, people’s spirits. I have 12 rods for a range of different fishing scenarios and my plan is to use every one of them this season with such zeal that whatever...