tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38793387507736230932024-03-13T13:06:31.929-04:00Fumbling the FlyA blog to discuss fishing and outdoor adventures of the author. Will focus mainly on fly fishing and fly tying, but will also discuss other fishing methods as well.Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-86827840569406618522014-06-28T23:58:00.003-04:002014-06-28T23:59:34.750-04:00VagabondFly Craft beer 100 shot fly tying challengeWho's up for the "challenge"? We could modify it from craft beers to PBR... <br />
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I am fortunate to have a wife who tolerates my need to fish. </div>
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I am fortunate to have met some great friends who share my passion and show me new places to fish. </div>
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I am fortunate that life has put us in a beautiful place.</div>
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I am fortunate that God made trout such awesome creatures.</div>
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Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-89072710149224573962014-05-19T23:59:00.002-04:002014-05-19T23:59:25.920-04:00Orvis Web BeltsSo I got the new Orvis fly fishing catalog in the mail over the weekend and saw something that caught my eye. This may or may not be a new product, but I hadn't seen it before, and my collection of Orvis clothing is rather small due to the cost associated with said gear. I had been looking for a nylon web belt with some awesome trout motifs to wear pretty much all the time. So they are offering <a href="http://www.orvis.com/store/product.aspx?pf_id=10B3" target="_blank">these belts</a> and they are just okay. But look at the awesome collars offered for dogs in <a href="http://www.orvis.com/store/product.aspx?pf_id=10GB" target="_blank">trout prints</a>. I'd much rather wear this print on my belt<br />
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Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-40442990283244914482014-03-21T00:23:00.004-04:002014-03-21T00:34:59.971-04:00Snake River Tributary<div style="text-align: center;">
On Saturday I fished a tributary of the Snake River with a <a href="http://thefoamline.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">friend</a> and a few of his friends. We did well, catching rainbow trout in beautiful scenery. It doesn't get much better than that!</div>
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Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-15983884118274637492014-03-08T00:35:00.001-05:002014-03-08T00:35:21.538-05:00Sweet Vid from The Connecticut Yankee<div style="text-align: center;">
Check out this video <a href="http://kierran.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Connecticut Yankee</a> put together from a pretty epic salt day last fall. Days like this are the reason we keep fishing.</div>
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Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-49783142874761276972013-12-14T21:50:00.000-05:002013-12-14T21:50:26.529-05:00Christmas Wish List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been a <strike>very good man</strike> <strike>somewhat good man</strike> aw shit, I've tried really hard all year to be good. Santa, I hope you can find me since I've changed addresses and been really bad at updating my blog. If you have any space on your sleigh, maybe you could find the time to drop me off a few things. I'd very much like to fish some off the beaten path places, you know, high country alpine lakes,</div>
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Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-9406827863014550462013-12-06T12:47:00.001-05:002013-12-06T12:47:27.184-05:00Dub the Thorax: Day 5 Giveaway - Strip'n Flywear Shirt (and Day 4 ...<a href="http://dubthethorax.blogspot.com/2013/12/day-5-giveaway-stripn-flywear-shirt-and.html?spref=bl">Dub the Thorax: Day 5 Giveaway - Strip'n Flywear Shirt (and Day 4 ...</a>: First off, congrats to Garrett over at Fumbling The Fly for winning the Tailwaters book. Send me your address! For today, the crew from...Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-69591742706230577652013-12-06T12:44:00.001-05:002013-12-06T12:44:21.766-05:00The Fiberglass Manifesto: The 12 Days of Christmas Starts SoonTFM does a really great job with his 12 Days of Christmas give-away. Keep an eye out on his blog for the posts to enter each day!<br />
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<a href="http://thefiberglassmanifesto.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-12-days-of-christmas-starts-soon.html?spref=bl">The Fiberglass Manifesto: The 12 Days of Christmas Starts Soon</a>: This post is just a heads up that the yearly craziness of gift giving called the 12 Days of Christmas starts on the morning of Monday, Dece...Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-28128770621469006522013-12-05T00:31:00.001-05:002013-12-05T00:31:03.096-05:00Dub the Thorax: Day 4 Giveaway - 50 Best Tailwaters Book by Stonef...<a href="http://dubthethorax.blogspot.com/2013/12/day-4-giveaway-50-best-tailwaters-book.html?spref=bl">Dub the Thorax: Day 4 Giveaway - 50 Best Tailwaters Book by Stonef...</a>: Up first, the winner for our Day 3 contest....You guys and gals were WAY OFF!!! There was a total of 404 bottle caps in the fish! (and belie...Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-58603020072164863722013-12-04T22:07:00.000-05:002013-12-04T22:07:00.080-05:00Rising from the dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well this place has certainly been quiet for a while. I apologize to anyone who was relying on me to update this blog with any regularity. Life got crazy in 2013. My grandfather passed away, which sent me into a tailspin. We found out my wife was pregnant, and we had a beautiful baby boy at the end of September. And I took a new position and we are in the process of relocating to Meridian, ID. So, all the miles of rivers and too many to count lakes and ponds of this great western state are mine to explore. Come Jan. 1, I'll have my license and be ready to explore all this great state has to offer fishing wise. To fill my time till then, I've been hiking. Check out these pictures as an apology for my absence.<br />
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<br />Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-86371127607212935922013-01-09T08:56:00.000-05:002013-01-09T08:56:12.137-05:00TPO's Triple ThreatAaron Jasper shows us how to tie up the Triple Threat fly. Keep an eye on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/troutpredator" target="_blank">TPO Youtube page</a> for the next fly of the month pattern.<br />
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<br />Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-44447255013955782932012-12-28T09:01:00.002-05:002012-12-28T09:01:50.770-05:00Addicted to ViseDo you enjoy looking at classic flies, full dress salmon flies, and wet flies that look like museum quality pieces rather than something you should keep in a fly box? <br />
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Then check out <a href="http://addictedtovise.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Addicted to Vise</a>. I've added it to my blogroll over there on the left. Eunan is a superb tier who has the patience and skills to crank out beautiful pieces of art. <br />
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Check out his blog, and if you get the chance to see him tie in person, go do it!Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-44196793765481077892012-12-25T00:00:00.000-05:002012-12-25T00:00:03.734-05:00Merry Christmas!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-85024372433461143402012-12-20T15:05:00.001-05:002012-12-20T15:05:04.139-05:002013 GoalsWell the end of another year is rapidly approaching. Looking back on 2012, I had a pretty good year of fishing. This was a year where I focused more on saltwater fishing, both in building up my gear selection and the time I spent fishing. Made many trips out for flounder and was successful most all of the time. Hit the sand a few times and had more success than I had expected. I have my eye on a few more trips yet before the calendar flips to 2013, provided the Mayans just needed to buy a new calendar and tomorrow isn't the end of the world.<br />
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With an eye towards 2013, I want to set a few goals for myself to give me something to strive to achieve.<br />
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1. Catch a trout on the fly in every month of the year. I have never reached this milestone and trying to accomplish this goal will get me on the water much more.<br />
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2. Catch a striper off the sand. Extra bonus points for catching a striper off the sand with the fly rod. This will make me think about my gear choices when on the beach and not always reaching for the "easy way out" with the spinning gear.<br />
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3. Get my daughter out fishing more. She'll be 5 in February and I need to make sure we are spending quality time on the water together. Even if she gets bored and throws rocks in the water, I want fishing to be something she enjoys and wants to do, not something that she's forced to do by her dad.<br />
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4. Fish some new water, both in my immediate area and hopefully in other areas of the country.<br />
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Let's check back in on this post at the end of 2013 to see how I did. Hopefully I can go 4 for 4!<br />
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Whatever you celebrate here at the end of the year, enjoy yourself, spend time with your family, and get outside some.Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-65491802079934301492012-11-29T09:37:00.002-05:002012-11-29T09:37:39.064-05:00RIP PapSaturday, November 24, 2012 my grandfather passed away. He had been suffering from cancer in his abdomen that had ravaged his organs before it was discovered. I am thankful that in the grand scheme of things he didn't suffer too much. I am also thankful that during his last month I was able to get up and visit with him several times and be with him on his last day alive. <br />
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My Pap was a great grandfather to me who taught me so much during our time together. He took me fishing and passed on all his secrets. I started out with spinning gear and he showed me how to rig up to bounce nightcrawlers, and powerbait when it came out, along the bottom of the stream for trout. Thanks Pap. I still use this method today when I decided to break out the spinning gear. He taught me how to read the stream and find those barely visible back eddies that trout love to hang out in. And most importantly we just went fishing. We'd get up early in the morning or head out after school (and eventually work) and fish. He taught me how to fish spinners and gave me his deadly Panther Martin with a wooden body (try finding those now) and I slayed the trout with it until I got it stuck on a log and it broke off. If that happened now, I probably would swim out and retrieve that spinner, but I was 10 and I had to just let it go.<br />
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My Pap and I took fly fishing lessons together at the Little Lehigh Fly Shop. Over a series of lessons, we learned about stream entomology, casting, the fly setup, and it eventually all culminated with us catching trout on tricos during a prolific hatch when they still went off like that. I was hooked. We put away the spin rods and focused on fly fishing and trying to catch trout like that. It wasn't long and I was interested in tying my own flies. Pap got me the tools I needed to get started and made me a deal: he would buy me the materials I needed to tie flies as long as I kept him supplied with flies. I can live with that deal. Once I started working and making my own money, I bought my own supplies but I kept Pap stocked with flies up until the day he passed away. Thanks Pap.<br />
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Pap, thanks for taking me out to fish. Thanks for spending time with me. Thanks for getting me started with fly fishing. It is a lifelong pursuit for me now and I'm not sure I'd ever get to this point if it wasn't for you. Thank you for going to all the fly fishing shows with me and showing me the true worth of those shows is all the included seminars. They can't take your education away from and never stop learning were two phrases he uttered often.<br />
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Thanks Pap.Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879338750773623093.post-1956163105073724572012-09-25T12:00:00.000-04:002012-09-25T12:00:10.257-04:00The family that fishes together...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Took a drive on Sunday to the beach after we were done with church. Hit up the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ice-House-Bait-and-Tackle/306640822727086" target="_blank">bait shop</a> to get some finger mullet first. Then found an opening on the sand. Action was good with lots of smaller blues hitting both whole mullet and mullet chunks.<br />
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My first red fish. It was definitely a satisfying day on the sand. Can't wait to get back there next weekend.<br />
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But then I got to thinking. What is going to happen to the independent stores that we as an area and I as a consumer depend on now for our goods? Will people continue to justify visiting the smaller shops that may not have what they want in stock when they can go to Cabela's and get what they want and maybe even for a lower price? I know that I will continue to visit the independent shops that kept me going before Cabela's was around and will hopefully continue to co-exist with Cabela's in the future. It is up to you to continue to visit your local independently owned stores and continue to give them your business. Just remember who was there for you when you starting out in your endeavor and didn't know anything about the sport. Who showed you the different equipment available and what your different options were? When you wanted to tie that fly you bought at the fly shop on vacation who helped you come up with what materials were needed to replicate that fly and the steps required to tie the fly? When you wanted information on a local (or not so local) stream who gave you advice (location, flies, directions) when you asked?<br />
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One final shout-out to Terry Peach owner of A Marblehead Fly Fisher in Centreville, DE, my local fly shop. Terry has always gone above and beyond for me whether it was tying supplies, supplies for on the stream, equipment, and lessons.<br />
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We fried those fish up along with a keeper sea trout for a delicious dinner Saturday night.<br />
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Sunday I headed out with my wife and a buddy and his nephew on a head boat for some drinking and fishing. Not too much to report. I was way outfished by my wife and my buddy's nephew...I didn't even put a keeper anything in the boat. I caught a dogfish and a short sea bass. My wife caught a mess of croaker.<br />
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Thanks to Chi-Chi Bobriquez for captaining the boat for us so we could catch so many great fish. We had two great meals of fried flounder and I have a nice bag of flounder in the freezer for another meal. Fumbling the Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879553900109894813noreply@blogger.com0Roosevelt Inlet, Delaware, USA38.7923557 -75.15855110000001138.789897700000004 -75.161094600000013 38.7948137 -75.156007600000009