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Last year's crew after a great day on the water.
photo courtesy Molly Semenik
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Molly Semenik should be no stranger to readers of the Women in Fly Fishing blog, as she has been featured here many times—for her casting skills, her angling prowess, and her teaching methods. So when I discovered that she'll be leading a women-only trip this fall in Colorado, I was. . .
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Gina McKinney caught her first two fish on a fly rod in Manchester, Vermont last weekend.
photo courtesy Mike McKinney
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Last summer, we featured a series of posts by Orvis's Mike MicKinney, who had embarked on the journey of becoming a fly fisherman. Well, now he's hooked, so he's begun teaching his wife what he's learned. Here's a photo he took over the weekend and posted along with these comments:
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How many kids get to fish with bamboo the first time out?
photo by Morgan Lyle
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Writer Morgan Lyle sent us these photos of his daughter, Jessica, from the Opening Day of the New York trout season. He wrote:
Jessica will be 11 in July. She had tied flies and fished with a spinning rod before, but this was her first time wading and fly-fishing. She wore her father’s spare waders and used her grandfather’s. . .
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A happy client and guide with a monster Henry's Fork brown trout.
photo courtesy Three Rivers Ranch
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Here are a couple of great shots of angler Peggy P. with guide Todd Allen of Three Rivers Ranch, spring fly-fishing on the Henry's Fork of the Snake River in Idaho. Peggy sent in these pictures with a note that said, . . .
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Giant trevally are known for their fierce fighting abilities, and for finding ways to break an angler's tackle.
photo courtesy Molly Semenik
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Right after her championship performance at the Salt Lake City "Best of the West" competition, Molly Semenik headed to Christmas Island to chase bonefish and giant trevally. It looks like she did pretty well, landing four. . .
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Ladies of all ages can participate in an event at the Virginia Fly Fishing festival.
photo by Beau Beasley
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Fly fishing, women, and wine: they go well together. Ever wanted to learn more about the quiet sport of fly fishing? The Virginia Fly Fishing Festival (April 21-22, 2012 in Waynesboro, Virginia) is offering a Women's Fly Fishing Forum hosted by well-known lady angler Wanda Taylor. This forum, open to all festival goers, came about as a direct result of the strong showing of women anglers at the festival over the past few years. The forum will cover variety of. . .
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TV host Mariko Izumi with her first-ever trout on a fly, in Colorado.
photo courtesy Mariko Izumi
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The sound of line sweeping the water and the feel of every bite, pull, and twist that comes from a fish being reeled in on an almost weightless fly is relatively new to me. It’s true I’ve been exposed to fishing since I was in diapers, but it’s only recently that I took up fly fishing. I grew up in a bass fishing/spinning-gear family, and while. . .
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Rachel looks pretty excited about this gorgeous early-season trout.
photo courtesy Scott Graham
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Scott Graham of North Park Anglers sent us this great picture with a note:
This fish was caught by Rachel Memelink of Walden, Colorado, on March 24, 2012. She landed this beauty on only her second time fly fishing, while on the Encampment River in southern Wyoming. The fish took a. . .
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Sarah Hoog with a bonefish on a much less windy day.
photo courtesy Sarah Hoog
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If you’ve read any of my past saltwater blogs, you may remember a trend that runs through each of them: the wind! It was January 23rd, and we’d had only a few days of variable wind in almost eight weeks. Variable means no wind, my favorite kind of day. But, I was working in the shop those days and instead watched as our guides departed with their clients while I stared out the window—there may still be face prints on that window—and wished I was. . .
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Orvis Scottsdale Fishing Manager Cinda Howard shows off her first-place cap after
winning the "Best of the West" casting compeition at the Phoenix ISE show.
photo by Spencer Higa
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Back in January, we posted about Peter Kutzer and Molly Semenik's sweep of a Denver casting competition at the International Sportsmen's Exposition. Then, later in the month, Orvis Regional Business Manager Hutch Hutchinson won the Sacramento, California leg of the prestigious Best of the West Fly Casting Tournament.
Now we've got another top finisher: this time, it's Cinda Howard, Fishing Manager of. . .
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