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Ted Williams and the Atlantic Salmon from Vimeo. Junior found this great old video about baseball great Ted Williams and Atlantic Salmon fishing on the Miramachi. Some great footage.
Everyone knows that March 21 is the official first day of spring and high time to start thinking about the seasons’ trout fishing, but in many cases it’s helpful to have a more tangible measure to really recognize the changing of the season — in my case it’s when the last bit of snow has…
Igot a phone call at the house on Sunday evening with some surprising news: “It’s Stan,” a rodmaker friend told me, “he just passed away.” If you live long enough you start to receive too many of these sorts of calls but I had to admit to being surprised by this and of course deeply saddened.
A friend recently sent along these two sketches that were done by Tom Maxwell many years ago. Fans of T&T and Leonard will probably recognize the drawing of the angler with the top hat, one of the more memorable and distinct logos in the bamboo world. In fact I can’t think of many others that…
Between building rods and writing content for this site, I’m a pretty busy guy. Fortunately, fellow rodmaker Walt Carpenter was nice enough to send along this story about Jim Payne which I thought would be fun to run. I hope you enjoy it.
Junior found this amazing vintage film from the Grand Cascapedia, and I thought I would pass it along. Not only are there some immense salmon, but it certainly gives one a glimpse into the grand old tradition of Atlantic Salmon Fishing, including a few things that you just don’t see anymore. Gaffing fish, for one…
A fellow rodmaker recently dropped me a line with a question about the history of the Leonard “Hunt” and pointed me to a thread on the Classic Fly Rod Forum about it. He wanted to know, specifically, what I knew about the history of the model, how it developed, and whether the “Hunt” designation was...
Just a quick post to remind people that the Fly Fishing Show will be taking place in Somerset, NJ this weekend. Somerset is the biggest fly-fishing show in the world and almost everyone I know in the business will be attending. I’ve opted not to have a booth myself there this year but I’ll be…
So as I wrote two weeks ago, I managed to stumble across a number of old index cards that had belonged to Tom Maxwell, the rodmaker who headed Leonard when I worked there (and who was at T&T too) and who was my mentor in every sense. And as I was rummaging through some of…
Many of you will already know this and some of you probably won’t care all that much since it’s got little to do with “classic” fly-fishing or bamboo rods, but the Marlborough Show starts today outside of Boston. I think Junior and I are going to head over for a few hours tomorrow just to…
Now that the holidays are over and January is firmly upon us I’m sometimes asked about the best way to store a bamboo fly rod. The obvious answer is that you shouldn’t, you should be out there fishing it, but when life intrudes, or when you’re snowed in and there isn’t a trout in sight, […]
Well a customer of mine recently dropped off a rod that he wanted me to look at and see about making a small repair to one of the wraps. Ordinarily I don’t do much repair work these days since I don’t really have the time, but I decided to make an exception when I saw…