Sunday, July 5, 2015

Downtown Browntown

PMD's, Caddis, Trico's are all on the menu right now, water levels are great, and the fish are crazy selective at times. Really nice for honing our fishing and casting skills as we have obviously gotten a 
little soft and sloppy fishing to our "easy" fish. Lots of fly changes, trying to figure out why the persnickety fish won't take my offering on the first 47 casts! WTF.
All worth the catch.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Keeping Good Company

Signing the Adipose Wall of Fame is the ritual when purchasing a new boat from the great team at Adipose. Recently the crew from Montana Wild picked up there new ride and figured they wanted to be near the other most famous signers on the door.

Just a little humor to start your Tuesday morning out.

 Most importantly if you do not follow the blog and travelings of Zach an and his brother, these two live the life of hunting and fishing the west . In addition, they are excellent videographers and make fantastic fishing and hunting video shorts. Music, story lines, scenery are unparalleled, the photography is amazing. check them out.


Monday, June 29, 2015

Teaching Old Dogs New Casts


While others might have been out fishing the high country, or floating some of the
waters that are finally coming down , or just having a picnic with the family today.
Mrs. Floatfisher and I thought we would send a fun filled 8 hours in the sun being humbled
and taught the finer skills of Spey Casting by Simon Gawesworth .
 The South Platte in downtown Denver would prove to be an excellent training
ground, with flows that would rival most steelhead rivers. It would give us the perfect
currents to practice our Roll Casts, Snap T's, Single Spey's, Double Spey's and Switch Casts.

 With only 6 students, each would have ample opportunity to be scolded and throttled
like a newly arrived cadet in boot camp. Holy shit, 6 hours of casting and couples hours of classroom
Instruction will plain wear your ass out. 

 Here Simon, works with this "special"student, I think I finally got it after  
couple of smacks to the back of the head. 
All kidding aside, what a fantastic class, more practice while we are floating the Missouri, 
and Colorado this summer, so we are in tune and ready for the Deschutes in September.
Don't want to make a spectacle out of myself.(or anymore of one)
Would highly recommend Simon's class to anyone who needs a touch up or knows nothing about the 
art of casting a two handed rod. He is very patient, and an excellent teacher.