Hoover: The Fishing President

As a boy, “Bert”, as Hoover was called, was fishing the Santiam near Salem, Oregon with worms, when an older fisherman gave the boy three artificial wet flies–a coachman, a grey hackle, and a professor–and encouraged the boy to abandon bait fishing.
The worm, the butcher-string line, and the willow-stick pole were now put aside for […]

A Tribute to Bamboo

Tree-grass–unique in the plant kingdom
Symbol of uprightness, chivalry and devotion
Inspiration of poets, artists and philosophers
Writing material of the ancients;
the stylus of comtemporaries
Food, shelter and clothing of the people
Industrial substance of a thousand uses
Redeemer of waste places–protector of the soil.
-Floyd Alonzo McClure
Note: Dr. Floyd McClure set out on a journey of discovery in 1925 to find […]

Everyman’s Bamboo Rod: A Thing of the Past or the Present?

        The golden age of twentieth-century bamboo rod making included a sweet spot of good quality manufactured rods by companies such as the Goodwin Granger Co. or James Heddon and Sons that applied mass-production techniques to yield literally hundreds of thousands of bamboo rods for fly anglers of average means. Sadly, a Chinese trade […]

Not Knowing

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." 
~by Henry David Thoreau~
 

Religion

"In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing."

~by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976~
 

Business

"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business."

~by Alfred W. Miller~
 

Art?

"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?"

~by Isaak Walton~
 

Fishing Poles

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles."

~by Doug Larsen~
 

Listen

"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout."

~Irish proverb~

Serenity

"There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind."

~by Washington Irving~
 

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