“Deserve’s Got Nothing to Do With It”
"WHAT ARE WE fly fishers anyway, dressed head to foot in elaborate designer costumes by Orvis, Simms, L.L. Bean, and Patagonia, but actors in a cosmic drama of trouthood?" This week we revisit one of our favorite chapters from the book Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing. In it, Bob DeMott writes about going "ass-over-teakettle" and the second lives of anglers and stories.
CLOSER LOOK: VESPER FLY ROD Spencer Durrant offers his impressions of the new Vesper fly rod from Moonshine after spending some on-stream time with it. As Spencer says, "In all honesty, the Vesper surprised me."
The Woolly Bugger Euro Jig is the subject of this week's featured tying video. As tier and videographer Tim Flagler says, "in addition to all the merits of a Woolly Bugger, it will ride hook point up, thus avoiding snags. It will also move with an enticing jiggy motion." |
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