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Email: durango_fishing@frontier.net
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
When I sat down to write this column, it dawned on me it was too easy to write. It was as if I had written these words before. So I checked two of my previous columns, and sure enough, I had...
DATE: Nov. 3, 2011 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
In July, I wrote a column about stance and balance and how important they are. A friend of mine who fly-fishes suggested I write a follow-up column about how to achieve balance. My first thoughts...
DATE: Oct. 6, 2011 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
On occasion I have been heckled by someone calling me a purist as I leave the truck headed for the river. The first time it happened, I was thinking: My hat is stained with sweat; I have a vest so...
DATE: Sept. 1, 2011 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
Ive been fly-fishing for a really long time and smoking cigars while fly-fishing for only a slightly shorter amount of time. Ive always felt there was some kind of connection between fly-fishing...
DATE: Aug. 4, 2011 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
While reading The Fly Fishermans Guide to the Meaning of Life by Peter Kaminsky, a statement he made really brought home part of the sport to me. Kaminsky wrote, Casting is easy to learn, hard to...
DATE: June 30, 2011 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
