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Position: Special to The Herald
Email: durango_fishing@frontier.net
On my way home from a lengthy road trip after a week of pheasant hunting, I was trying to come up with an idea for this months column. As I was exhausted from the hunt and travel, I wasnt having...
DATE: Nov. 1, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Have you ever made a really good cast, set up what you thought was the perfect drift and had it completely ignored? Then made a sorry cast, followed with a screwball drift and watch your fly be...
DATE: Oct. 4, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
I love the Olympics. It doesnt matter if its the summer or winter games; I just love to watch them.So, as I was watching the summer Olympics, it came to me that there is no competition for...
DATE: Sept. 6, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Im getting too old for this. Those were the words spoken by one of my fly-fishing buddies as we hiked back to the truck over big rocks and up a hill that was steeper than it was on the way down...
DATE: Aug. 2, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Lets assume that you have come into the possession of the basic accouterments to start fly-fishing: rod, reel, line, backing, leader, tippet and some flies (aka stuff). Lets further assume you...
DATE: July 5, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Not long ago, a friend of mine asked me to fish in a bass tournament that the local bass club was hosting. Having never done that, I jumped at the chance. After accepting the invitation, I let my...
DATE: May 31, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Somehow my thoughts are being stolen. From time to time, just when I get a great column idea, a story with a similar topic will appear in some fly-fishing magazine. Well, it has happened yet again,...
DATE: May 3, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Its springtime. Accessibility to the high country is still iffy. The rivers at lower elevations have taken on the color of chocolate milk. And the new fly rod that was a Christmas gift has cobwebs...
DATE: April 5, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Recently, the Dallas Chapter of Men Who Fly-Fish invited me to Texas for two days of fly-fishing. It was a typical MWFF outing. There was whiskey drinking, cigar smoking, tobacco chewing, card...
DATE: March 1, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
For those of you who stopped fishing the San Juan River because of the lousy river conditions from the Kiddie Hole upstream, you need to rethink your position. I say this from recent experience. I...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Theyre back and scarier than ever. Who are they? They are the wonderful people who bring you the national elections every four years. During the last cycle, we witnessed huge sums of money raised,...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2012 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
My wife is the smartest person I know, bar none. In fact, she is smarter than the smartest and cutest 2-year-old grandson in the world who currently is involved in a project figuring out how to put...
DATE: Dec. 1, 2011 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
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