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It has been a little over a year since my uncle dug my grandfather’s old fly rod out of his garage and passed the beautiful Fenwick on to me. My first fly fishing trip in Arizona was to a small stream on the Rim that holds a great population of wild rainbows mixed in with […]
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The winner of the fly box is Troutrageous. Email me your address and info at benjaminsmith835@ and I will get that out to you ASAP. Thank you guys for all of your kind comments and encouragement and thank you for making the first year a success. Ben
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October 24th will mark the one year anniversary of this blog. I started this site out as a means of communication with my family and as an alternative to some other social networking sites. Over the past year, it has grown and I have gained some faithful readers and friends through this site. […]
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As I turned off the truck, I looked at the outside temperature display to read a brisk 35 degrees. My friend Jake and I had left early from the valley and were the first on the water. We had seen multiple trucks on our the dirt roads into this particular Rim stream, but the drivers […]
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With the lack of fishing lately, I find myself yearning to be on the water. Living smack dab in the middle of the desert means that I must find my solace at the vice. I am not the only one who enjoys tying flies and playing with feathers and fur. Budder Bear is always nosing […]
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Disclaimer: This fly has not been field tested so I lay no claims to its durability or effectiveness. On the other hand, if it catches fish, I gladly welcome all credit. Even though I have not been tying for that long, I still have an inordinate amount of material stuffed into any nook and cranny […]
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I was not able to make it up North on Saturday, and instead spent an hour or so at Lake Pleasant on Saturday morning. The lake was low and I am guessing that it dropped at least 30 feet since I saw it in the spring. Fish we active in the middle of the lake […]
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Even though I make my living as an educator, I found it very difficult to accurately convey the basic principles of fly fishing to a friend. JohnMark and I have known each other since childhood and even though he was my brother’s best friend growing up, I consider him a good friend myself. He was […]