by Jordan Lindberg | Nov 27, 2009 | People & Interviews
From the video vault today comes a nice five-minute film of rodmaker and fly angler Bob Summers teaching the craft to his granddaughter, Cara Smith. You probably know Bob Summers, or at least his work, but if not, you should start with this fact: Summers is just about...
by Jordan Lindberg | Nov 27, 2009 | Angling Reports, Trips & Guides
Fresh from The New York Times this week, Gustave Axelson writes about traveling and fly fishing in Iowa’s Driftless Region — an area known for excellent Midwestern brook trout fishing. Although True North Trout focuses principally on fly fishing for trout...
by Jordan Lindberg | Nov 23, 2009 | Angling Reports
The recent weather has made for some great conditions, although we need things to get a little uglier – i.e. rain and clouds to bring in more steelhead and get fish out from the shade that the logs are providing. Looking at the forecast we can expect more...
by Jordan Lindberg | Nov 22, 2009 | People & Interviews, Trips & Guides
Bob Clouser, one of the grand deans of American fly fishing, spent some time in Northern Michigan this last season. The inventor of the Clouser Minnow and many other standard flies in the trout and bass fisherman’s arsenal, Bob runs a great fly shop in...
by Jordan Lindberg | Nov 20, 2009 | Flies, News & Updates
It looks like the BRNC Fly Tying Circle at the Boardman River Nature Center will be a ‘go.’ I heard from Colleen Masterson-Bzdok this afternoon — she is the Education Director for the Grand Traverse Conservation District. She is excited about the...
