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Dream Stream: A Brautigan Inspired Piece

Anthony Naples — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:42:20 +0000

Well – reading Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan has inspired me (see review in previous post Here). The hard thing about any creative pursuit is the idea that you must press forward, onward into new territory. If you want to be taken seriously then you need to come up with something [...]

First Tenkara Trip

Anthony Naples — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:02:15 +0000

Well, a while back I ordered a Tenkara Fly Rod from TenkaraUSA . I went with the Ebisu 12-ft rod. The Ebisu is a medium weight rod with a unique Pine Wood grip.

I’m sure most everyone has learned about the Tenkara fly fishing style by now – I published a post previuosly with a [...]

Trip Report: PA’s Spring Creek, Sept. 18-19, 2009

Anthony Naples — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:51:33 +0000

Spring Creek, Centre County, PA: September 18 & 19, 2009

Got a chance to fish my “Home Water” recently. I say Home Water in quotes, because although, I live 3-hrs away I consider Spring Creek to be just that. I know it better than any other stream and I find myself testing my skills [...]

Colorado Expedition Part II: The Taylor River

Anthony Naples — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:47:39 +0000

This is the second post in the Colorado Expedition series that cover my recent trip to Colorado this past mid-August. I know it’s a little slow in the coming but…well real life sometimes gets in the way of cyberlife. In the first post, Colorado Expedition Part I: The Fryingpan River, I related a [...]

Colorado Expedition Part 1: The Fryingpan River

Anthony Naples — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:42:35 +0000

Well, I managed to make it to Colorado again this year for some fly fishing and some family fun. This is the first post (in a series of three or four) that will cover the trip.

To start the adventure, I flew into Lincoln, NE and met up with my buddy (and my personal fly-fishing [...]

Trip Report:Little Juniata River, Huntingdon County, PA – July 5, 2009

Anthony Naples — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:48:41 +0000

Well, it has taken me a little while to get this trip report posted. Sorry folks – but I have a good reason. My camera took a little swim in the Little Juniata. I guess I should call it my ex-camera. I let it dry out for several days – no [...]

Farm Pond

Anthony Naples — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:23:12 +0000

You know that feeling – when you just need to get fly-fishing, the feeling, that something important hangs in the balance – and you can only save the world by tying an imitation bug to a strand of nylon and whipping it back and forth a while and then plopping it on the surface of [...]

Trip Report (May 12, 2009): Spring Creek, Centre County, PA

Anthony Naples — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:58:53 +0000

Trip Report: Spring Creek, Centre County, PA – Date Fished May 12, 2009

The Sulphurs are Here!

I’m sure we all have a favorite hatch – for me it’s the Sulphur Hatch on Spring Creek. There are several reasons for this: first nostalgia and second the fact that it is a great hatch on a great stream. [...]

Trip Report: Yellow Creek, Bedford County PA

Anthony Naples — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:00:44 +0000

Fished on Friday May 1st, 2009 Well the weather report looked bad – possible rain in the morning, probably thunderstorms in the afternoon. So we went fishing anyway. Thankfully we didn’t let the weatherman dissuade us from our trip. He had it right about rain in the morning, but the afternoon turned out [...]

Trip Report Spring Creek, Centre County, PA

Anthony Naples — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:43:19 +0000

Visited Pennsylvania’s famed Spring Creek on Monday April 12, 2009. It was a good trip. The first place we hit was the former McCoy Dam location just downstream of Bellefonte, PA. Prior to the removal of this 12-ft high dam in September of 2007, there had been a dam in this location [...]