Category Archives: Fishing Reports

Photo Essay Entry – The One that Didn’t Get Away – by Mark Thawley

Photo Essay Entry – Trouthunter – by David Gaier

This summer we took the kids out west on a road trip through Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.  When we travel, we frequently avoid the more touristy towns and chain hotels and opt for lodging that gets us a little closer to mother nature.  And so we avoided West Yellowstone, MT and instead stayed [...]

Photo Essay Entry – Armed With Patience in My Back Pocket – by Lena Halvarsson

         Wouldn’t you say, that when life throws us the unexpected, that’s when we need to get lost in the feeling of a spectacular fishing memory? Wouldn’t you say, that a great fishing story is better than any movie, any book, any internet game – especially when you have someone special telling [...]

Photo Essay Entry – Dad’s First Redfish on the Fly – by Ryan Griffin

2011 was the most fun and productive year I’ve had with a fly rod in salt water, full of great memories and many “firsts”…. I started the year by buying my first boat, a little 15 footer with a 20hp tiller motor, to take me to the flats on the flood tides.  A few weeks after [...]

Photo Essay Entry – IT STARTS WITH A CANE POLE – by Robert Peterson

It started with a cane pole, bobber and wiggling worm. Then came casting and spinning reels.   After a while,  bait- sit- and wait evolved into trolling, running a lure, bouncing a grub.  This could have lasted a lifetime and been very good.  But then came the challenge of catching, or attempting to catch, a fish [...]

Photo Essay Entry – Dating an Angler – by Melody Dawson

It’s no secret that men and women are different. For example, have you ever noticed that Columbia markets its PFG shirts to men with phrases like “blood and guts resistant” while those words are nowhere to be found on the tag for women? When I first began dating an angler, I knew little about fishing, [...]

Photo Essay Entry – The Long Way Home – by Peter DiNicola

To a diehard fly fisherman, Brevard, North Carolina is on the way home to Charleston from Charlotte airport.  Really.  Never mind that Brevard is over 2 hours from the Airport, in the opposite direction of Charleston.  The way a fisherman sees it, once at the airport, you are 2 hours closer to Brevard, home of [...]

Photo Essay Entry – The Making of a Fisherwoman – by Suzie Felts

On  September 18th, 2011, I was an ancillary invite on a fishing trip – the turning point for all my thoughts on fishing.  I never liked to fish.  My dad took me bass and bream fishing as a child and I was never excited about it.  I never understood how Robert, my husband, and his friends [...]

Charleston January Fishing – by Capt. Geoff Bennett

We left the dock under sunny skies with temperatures nearing 70 degrees and no indication this was a day in January. Patrick wanted to fish for redfish on the flats so we timed the trip to coincide with low tide. Stuck a few fish out of the gates with artificials but they kept coming unbuttoned. [...]

Photo Essay Entry – 22 inch cutthroat on a dry fly – by James McCoy

Hard to describe what was better, catching the 22 inch cutthroat on a dry fly on the Slough Creek in beautiful Yellowstone or the fact that it was bigger than the 20 incher my dad caught the same day. We had a great week, all catch and release , and no close encounters with the [...]

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