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Letting Go of Vices and Vises: Part 3
Yeah – it’s ugly. But I’m trying to let go…serenity now. I could have tied a neater fly – but I decided to keep it messy. That’s very hard for me to do…even now I […]
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Cabin Fever Activities
So what do you do when the weather and the family schedule doesn’t cooperate with your fishing needs? Fly tying? Sure – but you only need so many flies. Line making? Again – I can […]
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The Wintertime Blues Project – Accepting Submissions
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country Last winter I put together a little […]
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Roll your own custom tenkara rods…or get them to do it for you
Well we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later – roll your own tenkara rod kits. I have to admit I just read about this and don’t know a whole lot about […]
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Letting Go of Vices and Vises: Part 2
In Letting Go of Vices and Vises: Part 1 I introduced the topic of “no-vise” fly tying for tenkara flies and presented Matthew Shipp’s (www.tenkarawi.blogspot.com ) ideas on the technique. Now in Part 2, I’m […]
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Letting Go of Vices and Vises: Part 1
Well another new year has somehow happened – they have a way of doing that don’t they? In spite of the inevitability of time’s (and life’s) runaway bulldozer, people annually attempt to grasp at the […]
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Vintage Repost from September 2011: Tenkara Rocky Mountain National Park 2011 and some Tenkara Musings
Danger! This is a “vintage” Casting Around post. This post was originally posted on September 2011. Since I’ve been updating the site and going through old posts I thought I’d share some “vintage” posts that […]