Fly Fisherman articles from July 2000

Fly Fisherman archives from July 2000

DREAMS OF YESTERYEARA.(books on fly fishing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... CAN IT BE THAT 3,000 FLIES have virtually disappeared from our fly boxes? Can it be that names like Carrie Stevens, Preston Jennings, Ray Bergman, and Charles Defeo are no longer known in fly-fishing households? You bet. But they will now...

TIGHT LINES.
July 1, 2000... Not Drag Free In Curt Trout's article, "Extending Your Drag-free Drifts" (March 2000), the author's "Extended Loop Technique," though it has some merit, goes against accepted principles of dead-drift nymphing. Trout points out...

Correction.
July 1, 2000... In our May 2000 issue, we omitted two lines of text from the "Rebirth of the Arkansas" article. The following text should have appeared at the top of page 60: "Twenty years ago, the river's trout fed on an aquatic base of stoneflies and...

HATCHMATCHING MADE EASY.(fly fishing technique)
July 1, 2000... Learning to match the hatch takes your knowledge of fly fishing to the highest level. "WHAT ARE THEY TAKING?" It's one of fly fishing's most frequently asked questions, and for some anglers, the search for the answer is one of the most...

THE RAILROAD RANCH.(fishing lodge proposed for Idaho's Harriman State Park)
July 1, 2000... Should Idaho allow development to balance the books? [A proposal to develop Harriman State Park on Idaho's Fork of the Snake River has generated much discussion among concerned fly fishers. For this Forum, we invited three key players in...

LESSONS FROM FRANCIS, SCHMOOKLER, HILYARD, AND MARTINEK.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Catskill History Land of Little Rivers, by Austin McK. Francis. Beaverkill Press, (212) 288-2578, 1999, 280 pages, $100 hardcover. YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO PRODUCE a celebration of "the birthplace of American fly fishing," the rivers...

ALS FLY AUCTION.(fly fishing author Gary LaFontaine diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Fund raising on behalf of Gary LaFontaine ANGLERS AROUND THE GLOBE are using an Internet fly pattern auction to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research. Money raised will go to the AIS Association on behalf of Gary...

TWO NEW HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES.(National Fresh Water Fishing Mall of Fame)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS of fly fishers Lefty Kreh, Dave Whitlock, and Lee Wulff hang on the walls of the National Fresh Water Fishing Mall of Fame (NFWFHF) in Hayward, Wisconsin, where they and dozens of other anglers are recognized for their...

RESTORING COASTER BROOKIES.(Lake Superior)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... TROUT UNLIMITED (U.S.) and TU/Canada have joined hands to help restore coaster brook trout on Lake Superior. Only remnant populations of the lake-run char remain. The largest run exists in the Nipigon River system, where the world-record...

CASTING FOR RECOVERY.(breast cancer support group centers on fly fishing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... WOMEN WHO HAVE experienced breast cancer can learn fly fishing together and offer each other support through a program called Casting For Recovery. Founded in 1996 by Gwenn Perkins (daughter of Leigh H. Perkins of the Orvis Company), Casting...

NO ORVIS SMOKED SALMON.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... THE ORVIS COMPANY has stopped selling farm-raised smoked salmon because the farms are an increasingly significant threat to wild salmon stocks. Evidence is mounting to suggest that large numbers of hybrid salmon raised in fish-farm pens are...

WORLD RECORD BREAM.(Georgia Giant Hybrid Bream)(bluegill)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... AFTER YEARS OF TRYING, Ken Holyoak has finally caught a world record bluegill. The 5-pound, 15-inch fish was caught on November 6, 1999 in a small pond in Douglas, Georgia, and it has broken five world records, Holyoak says. The fish was no...

EUREKA steelhead rivers.(California - Six Rivers National Forest)
July 1, 2000... Six northern California rivers offer some of the state's best steelhead fishing. "EUREKA!" THE WORD WAS SUPPOSEDLY first exclaimed by the Greek mathematician Archimedes when he discovered a way to determine the purity of gold by applying...

FINDING YOUR Patterns & Places.
July 1, 2000... Five patterns you can adapt for your fishing and call your own WHEN MYFINAL DAY COMES and I've caught my last fish, made my last cast, and it's my turn to deal with Nurse Ratcher, I think that beyond the memories of the fishing, the...

SPRINGTIME CRAPPIE TACTICS.
July 1, 2000... An indicator system and soft-hook fly lets you make presentations in heavy panfish cover with few snags. As WITH MOST PANFISH, the black crappie is often overlooked as a worthy fly-rod target. However, these aggressive feeders take a...

MAINE'S Brookie Revival.(revival of Maine's native brook-trout populations)
July 1, 2000... LEADING UP TO THE 1990s, Maine's native brook-trout populations were on the decline. New backcountry roads caused increased fishing pressure on the state's remote ponds, which in turn led to overharvest of fish. Today, however, the state's...

HOGPENS.(manmade ponds and lakes for trout fishing)
July 1, 2000... Wild fantasy becomes reality on these manmade ponds where 10-pound trout don't raise an eyebrow. There are special places out there. Places where fly fishers from beginner to expert can have the time of their lives catching the largest...

THE PRINCIPLES OF CASTING.(fly casting)
July 1, 2000... Apply the principles to make longer, more efficient casts. EVERY FLY FISHER WOULD LIKE to cast better and more efficiently. Why is it, then, that many fly fishers can't cast well and don't understand fly casting? Much of this problem, we...

THE VERSATILE JEGGY.
July 1, 2000... FOR 30 YEARS, BOB POPOVICS has tested materials and tying techniques on saltwater fly patterns. His innovations for inshore and offshore species have had a major impact on the sport because, like Bob Clouser's Deep Minnow and Lefty Kreh's...

CONES ON THE NOSE.(weights for fishing flies)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Weighted cones allow you to tie bigger flies that cast easier and reach bottom quicker. LIKE SO MANY OF FLY FISHING'S finer points, there is an ongoing debate over the merits of using preweighted versus unweighted patterns. Some anglers...

Streamworks Fly Boxes, Tube Bodiz, and Spider Web.(fly fishing gear)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... IT'S DEVASTATING when flies stored in a closed fly box get wet and turn into rusty flies. C & F Designs (distributed by Streamworks, [800] 437-3697, www.streamworks.org), has designed a waterproof fly box to keep water out and flies dry. The...

Dr. Slick Tungsten Tools.
July 1, 2000... THE NEW TUNGSTEN CARBIDE Fly-tying Scissors (Dr. Slick, [800] 462-4474), stay sharp seven times longer than most stainless-steel-edge scissors, according to Dr. Slick. The German-made tungsten is used in many fine cutting tools because it is...

G. Loomis Euro-style Rods.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... ROD DESIGNER TIM RAJEFF SAYS that last year's Trilogy Rods (G. Loomis, [800] 662-8818, www.gloomis.com) were designed to provide anglers with an alternative to the company's traditional blackfinish fly rods. The graphite Trilogy rods have...

The Streamkeeper.(utility products for fly fishing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... DESIGNED BY A MONTANA GUIDE, the Streamkeeper (Clean Stream, Inc., [887] 256-7876) stores dropper-fly rigs and other small items. When you remove a dropper rig (i.e., a nymph dropped off a dry fly) from your leader, you can wrap the nymph and...

FLY FISHING IN JAPAN.
July 1, 2000... I SUBSIST IN A SUBURB of the world's most crowded city--Tokyo, Japan. As recently as last summer, I made my home in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. But I'm not from there, or from anywhere else for that matter. I've fished happily in New...