Month: January 2022
The Biggest Brown I Ever Caught
By Tom Adkinson When the drama ended, the biggest brown I’d ever caught was in the canoe with me. I wish I had the entire spectacle on videotape. I was on a public fishing lake in the surprisingly rugged northwest corner of metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee, barely 20 miles from the state capitol. Hidden in the …...
The Cure for the Fish Itch
Have you ever had a severe case of the “fish itch?” When the itch to go fishing is so bad that the thought of fishing is all-consuming. And scratching body parts won’t be the cure. It begins with an occasional memory of past fish. Then it mushrooms into thinking about fish that you probably should …...
A Fisherman Remembers Jocassee Valley
By Josh Lanier In my search for information on the history and tradition of fly fishing for trout in the mountains of South Carolina, I was extremely fortunate to have made the acquaintance of a true all-around outdoorsman and native son of the Appalachians, Dr. Thomas Cloer. Our correspondence so far has been by telephone …...
The Legend of Woolly Bugger
(note that all fly pics were tied by George Campbell, Pendleton SC) By Mike Watts Sasquatch, Big Foot, and the ubiquitous Woolly Bugger all have one thing in common, they are indeed legends in their own individual worlds. The stories about each meander throughout books, social media, and other avenues of the population. To my …...
