By Kirk Deeter

I said that I was going to make 2012 "The Year of the Carp," and I'm putting my money where my mouth is.

I just made a trip to Idaho's world-famous Snake River. Not the Henry's Fork or the South Fork to fish for wild trout, mind you. Instead, I went a bit further downstream to camp by the river, make occasional tater tot/fries sauce runs to American Falls (a Napoleon Dynamite thing), and sight fish for monster common carp. [ Read Full Post ]

By Kirk Deeter

One of the simplest means to make your fly cast longer and straighter doesn't have anything to do with physics lessons, reaching, hauling or any of that stuff. Simply take five minutes to straighten out your fly line before you start making casts, and your casting efficiency will improve dramatically. Casting a kinked and coiled line that's been stuck on the reel for months, on the other hand, is about as efficient as trying to push a corkscrew through a straw, especially if you want to shoot the line at the end of your cast. [ Read Full Post ]

By Tim Romano

Every once in a while, I feel the need to stray from the fly fishing realm just a bit. And I believe that news of a practicing psychiatrist in Duluth, MN broadcasting herring farts underwater as a tactic to catch more fish warrants that deviation.

From this story on Duluth News Tribune:
"Duluth’s Bambenek, now 64, has spent a lot of his free time finding ways to catch more fish, and his latest is all about sound. He has developed an app called TalkWithFish for iPhones, iPads and iPods that allows anglers to play sounds underwater with an attached speaker. Sounds like bass crunching crayfish, bluegills chomping beetles and — yes — herring farts." [ Read Full Post ]

By Kirk Deeter

We all find hitches and glitches in our casts from time to time. Like the golfer who irons out swing flaws at the practice range, the angler can do himself or herself a huge favor by setting aside some time for practice. And I think the best casting practice happens on flat water. I don't care if you go to a local lake, pond, or the neighbor's swimming pool, casting over flat water gives you a really good opportunity to see exactly how your fly is landing. That splashdown is the first part of the presentation, and sometimes it matters as much as or more than how you get the fly there in the first place. [ Read Full Post ]

By Kirk Deeter

My friend Paul Zabel recently returned from a fishing trip to Costa Rica without his fly lines. You see, some airport security officer decided it was in the interest of passenger safety to ensure that no WF-8-F fly lines (you know, the kind that terrorists have been using to snag 767s out of the sky) actually made it on his plane. Never mind the fact that he flew down to Costa Rica with reels and lines in his carry-on bag, and no one told him about the line restriction until he was headed back through security minutes before his flight. [ Read Full Post ]

By Chad Love

Two British anglers fishing on what appears to be a giant floating banana recently caught, tagged and released the largest shark ever taken in British waters — a 550-pound porbeagle that bested the old record by almost 50 pounds.
 
From this story in the UK Telegraph: [ Read Full Post ]