The FlyFish Fanatic

I will be doing a interview on Ask About FlyFishing Radio.com on Wednesday April 1st. The show will be live at 7pm Mountain time.
We will be talking about Entomology as it pertains to lakes of the Pacific Northwest, BC, and Alberta Canada. Please feel free to go to the following link and ask a question [...]

Never throw with a long line when a short one will answer your purpose.
Richard Penn (1833), Quoted in the angler’s weekend book
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We are in the middle of working with a few GREAT companies and will be making an announcement about them very soon.
I will tell you about one of the announcements now;
Rp3 FlyFishing and “The FlyFish Fanatic” are proud to announce that we are now a Pro Staff and Dealer for Nore Vice Fly Tying equipment. [...]

Well, I’m back. Had a GREAT time in Idaho. My wife, Son and I needed a bit of a break after the long process of printing my second book and the fishing trade show season.
We decided to get away, and we headed down to Hope, Idaho for some relaxation. We stayed at a great resort [...]

There is only one secret in dry fly fishing, which is to make the artificial fly float over a trout in such a way that it looks appetizing enough for him to swallow.
Dermot Wilson, Fishing the dry fly (1970)
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Skill at the riverside, or at the fly-table, never came, nor ever will come to us by any other road than that of practice.
George M. Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895)
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Well,
That time of year is upon us. The trade show season is coming to a close, and it has been a CRAZY one.
I attended 4 shows this year (so far) and plan on attending a few more as a customer not a exhibitor.
The BC Boat & Sportsmans show this year in Abbotsford BC was great.
We [...]

Success begets confidence and confidence begets success- and that fine upward spiral is the best restorative of streamside sanity.
Howard T. Walden II, Upstream and down (1938)
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