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Owl Jones dot com First Annual Fly Tying Competition

Anthony Naples — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:06:43 +0000

All all you fly tyers OwlJones.com and J. Stockard Fly Fishing are proud to announce OJDC’s First Annual Fly Tying Competition.

Each person who enters will receive a discount code from J. Stockard for $5.00 off a purchase!

GRAND PRIZE is a Wind River 8’6 5wt. fly rod AND a $25 Gift Card to J. Stockard Fly [...]

2011 National Fly Fishing Championships Video

Anthony Naples — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:32:17 +0000

Did you ever want to see how those competitive guys do it? Now you can watch and learn from some of the top competitive fly-fishers in a DVD filmed during the 2011 U.S. National Fly Fishing Championship that was held this past spring in Cherokee North Carolina.

Pre-order the dvd here: North Carolina Fly Fishing Team

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New Issue of Rise Forms is Live

Anthony Naples — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:38:14 +0000

A new issue of Rise Forms online literary fly fishing magazine went live today.

Tenkara Summit USA 2011

Anthony Naples — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:00:31 +0000

Many of you may already know about this gathering but I figure it wouldn’t hurt to give it a little publicity bump again. It has been two years since Daniel W. Galhardo of Tenkara USA made tenkara equipment readily available to American anglers. In that time tenkara has grown rapidly in [...]

Steve Schweitzer on Ask About Fly Fishing Radio Podcast

Anthony Naples — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:19 +0000

I always enjoy Roger Maves’ interviews on his Ask About Fly Fishing Internet Radio podcast. The latest is especially interesting to me – an interview with fly fisher and author Steve Schweitzer. Steve recently published the must-have book A Fly Fishing Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park (read my review here). The [...]

Threatened Species by Jeff Vande Zande available as eBook

Anthony Naples — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:23:27 +0000

Just a quick update, the story collection, Threatened Species by Jeff Vande Zande is now available as an eBook. I reviewed Jeff’s great story collection previously – you can find that review here.

The electronic version is priced right at only $4.99 and it is available in several different formats; PDF, EPUB, Mobi(Kindle), Palm Reader, [...]

Rise Forms Magazine is Live

Anthony Naples — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:57:32 +0000

It has been a while in the making – but it has finally happened. Rise Forms Magazine has gone live. Please go check it out. The first issue has poetry, fiction, narrative, a book review and artwork (and all with fly fishing at the heart).

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 [...]

New Online Fly Fishing Literary Magazine

Anthony Naples — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:17:59 +0000

I’d like to announce the birth of a new fly fishing magazine; Rise Forms: Fly Fishing’s Literary Voice. There are many fly fishing magazines available – most focus on “where-to” and “how-to” or they offer beautiful photos of gleaming fish and dream destinations. By design, Rise Forms will be a bit different from [...]

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 [...]