Do-It-Yourself Building your own Fly Rod First, like the man said, get some books. One of the best is L.A. Garcia's Handcrafting a Graphite Fly Rod from Frank Amato Publications. The photos are excellent. Skip Morris has maybe a more comprehensive book, The Custom Graphite Fly Rod, which as I recall from scanning it at the book store, covers repairs as well as the essentials. Dale Clemens's excellent volumes are encyclopedic-probably more than you want or need to know about all kinds of rods. [Read More]

Fishing Through the Cracks Lil' Brother and I never did make a lot of money, but enough to keep us just short of even on our account at Mr. K.C.'s store. Our daily provisions consisted of two cokes, a moon pie, a Miss. Dailey's fresh made sandwich, and all the crickets we needed to catch our supper. By 7:00 p.m., every evening we would have our 3 bream apiece. We would gut 'em, stick 'em, and cook 'em over a little fire we would make on the bank near our tent. Lil' Brother and I had spent the last two summers camping on the banks of the Bend. We fancied ourselves as a modern day Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. We were accountable to no one and responsible for only our daily bread. Don't get me wrong, we were not bad kids nor did we come from a broken home. We had loving parents, grandparents, and friends. We were just lucky enough to grow up in a part of the world and in a time that allowed us to live free, truly free. [Read More]

6 Things You Must Do If You Want To HaveThe Secret To Catching More Trout 1. How Fish Think When you hunt for deer, and any other animal for that matter, there are some set rules you have to follow if you are going to catch some very wary Brook and Brown trout. Will the rules for hunting somehow help with Trout Fishing. 2. Study and Research Understandmg how a trout thinks, will increase your chances of success. You could go to a local bookstore as well as the library. Within a week you will know more about Trout than 99.9% of the world's population. [Read More]

Global Warming May Have Narrowed The Field In 2006 World Championship Surf and Shore Anglers Tournament
The exhilaration heats up as the 2006 World Championship Surf & Shore Angler Tournament enters its final fall run for the quest of the silver cup. Several key Top Contenders have begun to emerge and glob.

Dog days at Hunting Days: Canine visitors, owners enjoy Hunting and Fishing Days (The Southern Illinoisan)
CARTERVILLE - Krypto, the wonder dog, sat quietly by the side of his master, Joe Lewis of Carterville. Lewis of Carterville was spending some time at the kids' fishing area at the Southern Illinois Celebration N.