Just a simple fly fishing video today. You deserve a nice 15 minute break from the hustle and bustle of the day. – Enjoy and have a great weekned.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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Apr 12
New News Wednesday
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Are you an educator or youth leader wanting to bring fishing into your classroom or community? Attend a free Crew Captain workshop at Fort Harrison State Park and learn how. Plus you'll get access to equipment and materials to help.
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Do you want to take your family fishing, but don't know how or where to start? Start by attending a free family fishing workshop at Fort Harrison. |
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Ewan McGegor, star of “Salmon Fishing In The Yemen,” demonstrated his skills with a fly rod on BBC One.
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Apr 12
Fly Fishing Memories
The advent of Catch & Release in the past 50 years has had a huge impact on the fisheries across the country. However, the one downside is that most of us don't keep those "trophy" fish to hang on the wall anymore. Sure you can get a replica made but for the most part the attitude has just plan changed in terms of having some sort of memento to remember our fish by.
The good news is that in the past 10 years digital cameras have really come into their own and it is now easier than ever to get a good quality photo to place in an album or even have blown up and hung on the wall to help refresh the grey cells on our adventures. Literally, hundreds of photos can be taken in minutes when that fish of a life time decides to take your fly.
However, just like in days gone past, there were good and bad taxidermists… A quality photo to do honor to that great catch needs to go beyond the typical "grip and grin" shot. I have found over the past coupe of years the best way for me to learn about the composition of a great fish shot is to look at what other people are doing. Basically, take a look at what another photographer has done and try to copy it. There are a bunch of great resources across the Internet that have great photos for you to look at and learn from. Take a look at these sites to get started.
FocalFish, MidCurrent, The Itinerant Angler, Ten & Two Magazine, A Tight Loop Magazine, and Fontinalis Rising
These are not instructional sights. All they offer, for the most past, is great photos to inspire you to do the same.
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Apr 12
New News Wednesday
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From the Indiana DNR Wild Bulletin
——————————————————————————————– Indiana’s Muskie stocking program is off to a good start this year after DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife biologists collected a record-matching 1.9 million eggs from adult female Muskies at Lake Webster.
The eggs were fertilized with milt from male Muskies and will be used to produce approximately 24,000 fingerlings for stocking 15 Indiana lakes and reservoirs.
Warm temperatures forced biologists to start the egg-taking operation two weeks early.
“We normally begin trapping Muskies in Lake Webster around April 1, when the water temperature is 40 degrees,” said Jed Pearson, DNR fisheries biologist. “This year we had 60-degree water temperatures in mid-March.”
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1.9 million eggs… hate to be the guy who had the job of counting all those eggs.
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If you are looking for a great compact field guide for identifying mayflies than look no further than The Mayfly Guide by Al Caucci. Read this review on MidCurent. |
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Let's go to Wisconsin this summer and fish.
Adrift – No.4 – Brooks and Done // Fly Fishing Western Wisconsin This video certainly makes me want to go. |
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Apr 12
Additional EMags for April
We usually post the new editions of electronic magazines on the first Monday of the new month. Unfortunately, this means that some magazines do not get included because they are released later in the month. So, here is an updated post of a couple of late comers to the April round up of EMags that you need to check out. Plus, a new magazine that just released their first issue; So Fly Magazine.
This is the premier issue of So Fly Magazine and in order to see much of the content you have to pay for a subscription. However, A Tight Loop is free and is packed with all kinds of stuff you should read. A side from the fact that both Derrick and Ian have articles in this issue, FlyMasters is the featured fly shop. Plus, enough great Midwest content to keep you busy for weeks to come.
