" Soul of a City "

Every so often Yeti puts out another gem amidst the plethora of real nice videos shorts

that they put out every three weeks or so. Soul of a City is a good down home story of an

eclectic artisan, Evan Voyles. Yeti shares his store of a lost art of neon sign building, oh, so cool.

Ditch Day

A beautiful day would greet us for the maiden launch of the new boat to break in the 2017 fishing season. This by far is the latest start to the fishing season we have had on 6-8 years, and it showed because of the current level of stress. Well with work and family obligations now behind us, it is time

to get with the day on the river and fish. 

 The new boat would not disappoint, although a bit heavier that our 3 previous outfits ( this one has a few more bells and whistles) it tracked and rowed very nicely. We would also experiment with longer oars than we previously had, but again, work well and rowed like a dream.

Having caught the first $8000 fish, to break in the boat, an IPA would be in order, and aptly the new Vessel  would be named, "Melvin" after this delicious IPA for Melvin  Brewing. Melvin fits the boat perfect.

Trico Spinner by Greg Garcia

One of the first few Greg produced back in 2015, but a solid for the fly box. Greg shows

you a couple great tricks in this video, especially the tip on splitting the fibbet tails, and fishing 

the spinner drowned as a nymph. Sit back and give this a view, then twist up a few for your box.

It's Time

It looks like the stars will finally align to get the new boat out on the ditch this weekend.

It is far overdue, as my stress level has hit the all time high, and it is time for the first fish, a few photos and cigar.  That should put everything back in perspective.