Thursday, May 2, 2019

Mr. & Mrs. Hendrickson...

... have arrived.

High water interviewing is just fine if you know where to look. Here from yesterday, one of my favorite clients JB with a lovely, Hendrickson eater.




Monday, January 15, 2018

It's update time - 2018 Events and Happenings

Hello winter -  cold enough to see your breath and depending on where you live, cold enough to see your thoughts  💭  while day dreaming and planning for the upcoming season.

Here, the news of what is going on in my world:

1) I will back teaching at the Wulff Fly Fishing School - fabulous fellow instructors in a setting that needs to be experienced - the best of the Catskills.

http://wulffschool.com/staff.html

2) Super proud of being on the HMH Vise Pro Team. Made in Maine by some pretty cool people. Quality fly tying equipment. Come by the HMH booth at the Edison Fly Fishing Show - I'll be tying there Friday morning 9-12, January 26th.

http://www.hmhvises.com/proteam.php

https://www.facebook.com/hmh.vises/?hc_ref=ARRx0Xcdi6sn3rS9FxSk6QRjHlEIqNDOX2eKPUPbw00C8avqywUfQ_G-krP3EZXJH3Y

3) Spey casting anyone?  Certified two-hand instructor  (and fishing pal) John Bilotta and I will be putting on a casting workshop this spring with Jim Barr and his Rhode Island School of Fly Fishing. For details, see below and contact Jim soon - places are filling fast.

https://www.facebook.com/RhodeIslandSchoolofFlyFishing2015/?hc_ref=ARTmoeJrigD3tcE788cR5QbGh8mQfgQln9CU2d6B0a4PNEs5NT5enmGTdawWtR3amwE&pnref=story



Wednesday, March 8, 2017

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Snap-cast!


Mother Nature's wonderful heat lamp made an appearance this past Sunday, making conditions doable for an Instructor's Continuing Education workshop at the Lancaster Show .
CE gatherings are the perfect cabin-fever fix, this particular one organized by pals Gary Kell MCI and Chris Haag CI, and sponsored by the Chesapeake Council.  My task, to help instructors clarify and filter the Spey/Two-hand soup that simmers out there on the interweb. The meat of the presentation was Q&A, with some Show-n-Tell and casting.


photo credit:  Derek Eberly 

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Take a Lesson, Catch Fish!


This guy did. 

The Fish

Let's call him James. James is smart - he took a fly casting lesson prior to his island visit.  As a matter of fact, the lesson was the first time he had ever cast a fly line, and the Bonefish was his first fish caught while fly fishing. Well done!



The Lesson


Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The Big Show


http://flyfishingshow.com/somerset-nj/



I will be there all three days - good chance of finding me at the casting pond, maybe outside casting, or IFFF Learning Center Booth which is located inside the main hall, far back right corner.  

Please come by and to say hi.






Sunday, January 11, 2015

Wish You Were Here


 One of the very best things about meeting and helping people become better casters and fly fishers is the receiving their reports, be they emails, phone calls and or photographs from their trips. It makes me proud (... you need a long walk if that sounds cliché).


Bob's GT

What's neat about the above interview picture is rather than the usual fly casting instruction, I taught Bob some stuff about leaders and knots for his trip to the Seychelles. We sat in his corner office, windows overlooking Fifth Ave. and 57st. NYC, coffee table covered in spools of mono, tape measure, nippers etc...  talking about knots, tying and re-tying all the while the work space just outside his carried on, interspersed with curious glances, followed by humored expressions by our activity. That and the fish was one of the largest GTs that season. Smiles all around.




Brian's Bonefish Report Card

The backside reads:
Dear Craig: Happy New Year! THANK YOU again for the double haul lesson - it definitely paid off. On our Christmas trip to Key Biscayne, I was fortunate to land 2 Bonefish and 1 baby Jack Crevalle from the beach, and hooked 3 Tarpon (landed 2) on an evening charter in Biscayne Bay. See you again in 2015.