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America’s Most Endangered Rivers™ of 2010

Anthony Naples — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:42:44 +0000

American Rivers announces America’s Most Endangered Rivers™ of 2010

June 2, 2010

You can see the full article at the American Rivers Site

Here’s the List:

Upper Delaware River (NY, PA), Threat: Gas drilling Sacramento – San Joaquin (CA), Threat: Outdated water and flood management Gauley River (WV), Threat: Mountaintop removal coal mining Little River (NC), Threat: New [...]

BackpackFlyfishing.com Website

Anthony Naples — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:37:31 +0000

I recently came across this website called BackpackFlyfishing.com. BackbackFlyfishing is the brainchild of Jason Klass and if you are a backpacker and a Tenkara fly fisher, you need to check it out. There’s a blog, forums and a gear shop focused on Tenkara.

In a recent blog post Jason presents a simple solution for [...]

Of Pigs and Fishing: Yellow Creek Coalition 3rd Annual Pig Roast

Anthony Naples — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:05:19 +0000

When people speak of “pigs” in fly fishing, they’re usually talking about huge fish. In this case a pig is a pig. The Yellow Creek Coalition (YCC), in Bedford County, Pennsylvania is sponsoring a Pig Roast fund raiser to support the work that they do on Yellow Creek. Below are the details [...]

Woodchuck, or is it Groundhog?

Anthony Naples — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:08:56 +0000

Lately I’ve been messing around with tying “one-animal” flies. That is, all materials come from the same beast, excepting the thread and the hooks. The post that I did a while back on the Casual Dress, got me thinking about this topic. The Casual Dress almost makes the cut – but the [...]

Midge Madness or the Tiny Terror

Anthony Naples — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:42:37 +0000

Midge#1 by Anthony Naples: done on iPod Touch with SketchBook Mobile

Midge #1 Sketch is based on a photo from the Winona Fly Factory Blog.

Well, I had been snowbound for almost a week. The children didn’t have school all week – and they were getting a little stir-crazy (me too). Normally with snow [...]

Dino Flies?

Anthony Naples — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:35:43 +0000

In the past I’ve tried to stick closely to fly fishing and related topics. This post is a little bit of a stretch. As a father of two young children I still get to think about dinosaurs , and share the enthusiasm that my kids have for them.

So my interest was peaked when I saw [...]

Another Sketch and Another Question: Trout #2

Anthony Naples — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:25:57 +0000

Trout #2 by Anthony Naples, done on iPod Touch, post-processing in Photoscape

This spring I took a trip to Yellow Creek in Bedford County, PA. I caught this one particular brown trout that had spectacular blue spots. I had never really noticed these before on brown trout. Since then, I notice this feature [...]

Casual Dress: Some Variations on a Theme

Anthony Naples — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:13 +0000

Variations on the Casual Dress

The Casual Dress may not be a pretty fly, but its creator Polly Rosborough knew what he was up to when he first tied up this ugly beauty. When I first started to tie flies, about 15 years ago, I was given Randall Kaufmann’s book The Fly Tyers Nymph Manual. [...]

Inspired by Others #1: Winona Fly Factory

Anthony Naples — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:05 +0000

There are numerous Fly Fishing related blogs that I enjoy visiting. Many of them have inspiring photos of trout and flies, and fishing destinations. These images can be a nice escape from the suburbs, a brief journey to another locale, a small trip to Montana, Utah, Wales, Wisconsin or elsewhere. So I thought it would [...]

Thinking of Summer

Anthony Naples — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:37:48 +0000

Panfish #1 by Anthony Naples

In the bleak midwinter with thoughts of more coming snow, I was inspired by a photo from this past summer. Many of us start our fishing lives with sunfish. Some of us never leave that warm and comfortable place – watching and waiting for a red and white bobber to [...]