Fishing Retreat for Breast Cancer Survivors Offers Path to Recovery
We first reported the organization Casting for Recovery here. Well since then, Starr Nolan, founder of the community, has been featured in the Citizen Times of Georgia. It’s great again to see these volunteers contributing their time and effort for such a wonderful program for breast cancer survivors. I think that most of the lessons in life can be learned fly fishing.
Dan Bachman’s Speed Clinch Knot Tutorial
Hat tip to Dan Bachman of, Tattered Fly for this great demonstration on tying a speedy clinch knot.
Fly Fishing the Hoopa Valley
Fantastic story about trust, friends, good luck, and great fly fishing on the Trinity River of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. One lost tip, one recoverd tip, a couple of beers, an indian tribe, a nice riffle, and a ton of steelhead. Read the full story.
How to Catch Every Species of Fish on the Fly
Fly fishing class is in session at Southwestern Illinois College today with fly fishers Jim Laing and Brad Eilering, offering a unique adventure of fly fishing.
The pair are on a mission to catch as many species of fish as they can—from buffalo to muskie to walleye to striper to carp to catfish --within a two-hour radius of St. Louis by using fly-fishing techniques.
Source: Belleville News-Democrat