By Tim Romano

My trip to the Key West last week was a nutty one: two rods broken, three falls by one guy off the bow, a destroyed rental car, night fishing for tarpon, and a few new species in the bag.

By Tim Romano

Cicadas might be annoyingly loud, but I know they bring huge trout to the surface on rivers like the Green in Utah and the Colorado at Lees Ferry in shadow of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Bass also love them and I'm sure they suck them down all over the east coast. And now there's a way to see realtime info on when cicadas will start flying around—using data provided by you.

WNYC, a public radio station in New York, is promoting a crowdsourcing project call the Cicada Tracker, where people can create a temperature sensor and report their findings to the station when things start to warm up. WNYC will then map this data on the cicada hatch in the Northeast and share it online.

By Tim Romano

Today's Fly Talk entry is a guest post from our friend Chris Santella. You might know Chris from from his "Fifty Places" series of books, his work in The New York Times, Forbes.com, The New Yorker, Golf, Travel & Leisure, …and many others.

Chris and I were chatting the other day about the portrayal fishing on TV and in advertising, which as I'm sure you know is just god awful 99 percent of the time. To make a long story short, during the course of the conversation we both admitted to watching the season finale of Downton Abbey and were aghast at the sight of such horrible spey casting. Anyway, I'll stop trying to explain and let Chris take it from here. Warning: Spoilers ahead.

By Tim Romano

While some of us have the luxury of being able to fish like we always do during this time of the year, most of our fisheries are shut down, frozen over, or simply too slow to make a day worth while.

My friends over at Fly Fishing Film Tour will kick off their season right here in Denver this Saturday. I do believe both shows tomorrow are sold out, but the show will head out on the road and run through May to a multitude of cities all over the country; big and small—almost 100 cities in all. So do yourself a favor, check the schedule, buy some tickets, and head on out for an evening of fish porn and tall tales on the big screen.