You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 17 Dennis Vander HouwenDennis blogs about his Tenkara experiences at [...]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 16 KaiI met Kai at the 2012 Tenkara USA Summit [...]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 15 Charles CantellaI met Charles at the local Trout Unlimited. [...]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 14 Aileen LaneI first met Aileen Lane when I was [...]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 13 Jonathan AntunezJonathan is a friend from the tenkara world [...]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 17 Dennis Vander HouwenDennis blogs about his Tenkara experiences at […]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 16 KaiI met Kai at the 2012 Tenkara USA Summit […]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 15 Charles CantellaI met Charles at the local Trout Unlimited. […]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 14 Aileen LaneI first met Aileen Lane when I was […]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 13 Jonathan AntunezJonathan is a friend from the tenkara world […]
You can click HERE to Go to the page for the Flyside Chats. This page will continue to populate as new chats become available Episode 12 Jen HansenJen Hansen works behind the scenes at Tenkara […]
This is one of my absolute favorite nymphs to tie and fish ( I do fish these on tenkara gear as well as western rod and reel). For me a a fly need to do […]
The magnolias are blooming. The crocus have come and gone. Narcissus are nodding their heads and tulips are just unfolding. I’d love to be out fishing now as the world moves on from the brown, […]
Okay. Firstly I am not getting any younger. And jeez Louise this river reminds me of that every time I fish it. Honestly, the next day I woke up and it felt like I’d been […]
I’ve always had this problem trying to decide whether to focus on more artsy fartsy essay type posts or more “how-to” type posts and I’ve never really come to a conclusion (the blog is called […]
Fly tying is an activity which is related to fly fishing, but for many it is a pleasure apart from the fishing itself. It can be a dangerous thing to pursue and if you’re not […]
As I attempt to bring Casting Around back to life I am feeling nostalgic. One of my early posts (in April 2009) was about the Pass Lake Wet Fly. But since that post I have […]
Tenkara Today by Morgan Lyle, Stackpole Books, 2019 When I got home from a fishing trip a few days ago I had a pleasant surprise waiting for me. It was a preview copy of Tenkara […]
Maybe it’s because I learned to fly fish on the limestone streams of central Pennsylvania, or maybe it’s because I have a real soft spot for a bucolic landscape with soft rolling hills, maybe it’s […]
UPDATE: This updated post is combination of two separate posts: one from this Casting Around blog (from October 2015) the other a Q&A with author Morgan Lyle from my Three Rivers Tenkara Blog. Since I […]
“Learning to fish with a tenkara rod and a short line is the easiest way to learn to fly-fish. It can be taught to an eight-year-old in minutes. Put her on a riffle with an […]
A while back I bought Morgan Lyle’s Simple Flies: 52 Easy-to-Tie Patterns that Catch Fish with the intention of reviewing it here if I liked it. Well… I did like it… a lot… but I […]
A Fly Fishing Guide to Colorado’s Indian Peaks Wilderness Area by Steven B. Schweitzer & Michael Kruise Pixachrome Publishing, September 2014 I’ll start off by saying that I cherish Mr. Schweitzer’s Fly Fishing Rocky Mountain […]
Fish the edges! If you’ve been around fly fishing for a while this is probably not news. But if you’re newer to the game then maybe it is a handy piece of advice. What I [...]