Cuthroats and hoppers

Fishing for cutthroats on hoppers. One of my favourite way of fishing. Do you have your own nice memories of fishing for cutts with hoppers? Which pattern did you use?

Here's a great video of two guys catching some serious nice cutts on hoppers somewhere in Yellowstone country.

Building a bamboo fly rod by Garrison

A unique film of Everett Garrison (1973) about how he built his bamboo rod documented by Hoagy B. Carmichael. This is the only film in existence of one of fly fishing's classic rodmakers.

Hoagy Carmichael wrote the book 'A Masters's guide to building a bamboo fly rod' together with Garrison. This book opened up the knowledge of making a bamboo fly rod which was kept secret by rod makers until the book was published in 1977. Rod makers simply call this book 'The Bible'. Unfortunately Garrison never saw the book as he passed before the book was published...




Hoagy acquired Garrison's rod shop after Garrison's passing and in 2014 Hoagy donated the rod shop to the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum. Here's a nice video of Hoagy explaining why he did that.

Father day

I received a great bag for father day 😀

Podcast with Tom Whiting

Another great podcast from Wet Fly Swing, this time with Tom Whiting of Whiting Farms.

A few interesting things I picked up from the podcast:

1) Henry Hoffman is still alive & kicking

2) Umpqua Feather Merchants currently has a Dutch owner

3) The CDL (coq de leon) capes have great larger size (up to size 4?) dry fly hackles

Fishing for Tanago - Tradition and respect

Fishing for Tanago is a Japanese tradition fishing for very small bitterlings in tiny ditches with 'microscopic' small hooks. Everything is tiny here. From the gear, the fish and equipment needed to fish. As usual in Japan it's where respect is one of the main aspects, both to the fish as well as to fellow fishermen. Watch and get inspired.

The complete fisherman