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2 unusual facts about Fly Fishing


Nantahala, North Carolina

Other than kayaking, canoeing, and whitewater rafting, the Nantahala Outdoor Center offers a variety of other fully guided things such as: fly-fishing, hiking, nature photography, train rides, and mountain biking.

Simms Fishing Products

In 1992, a Los Angeles based management consultant, K.C. Walsh moved his family to Bozeman to fly fish and start a new business.


Barkly East

It has been one of the few areas in South Africa where winter sports are pursued, and in summer fly fishing for Rainbow trout and indigenous Smallmouth yellowfish, trail running, mountain biking, ancient rock-art, tennis and the magnificent scenery draw tourists to the district.

Floating Flies and How to Dress Them

Floating Flies and How to Dress Them - A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling with Full Illustrated Directions and Containing Ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the Most Killing Patterns Together with a Few Hints to Dry-Fly Fishermen is a fly fishing book written by Frederic M. Halford published in London in April 1886 by Sampson Low.

Howqua River

The Howqua River was one of just thirteen locations worldwide featured on the fly fishing documentary television series A River Somewhere.

Kaikorai Valley College

Pupils of Kaikorai Valley College use the adjacent Kaikorai Stream for outdoor education, studying water quality and flow, learning fly fishing and monitoring waste water.

Roaring Fork Valley

Non-winter recreational and cultural activities such as fly fishing on the Fryingpan and whitewater rafting on the Roaring Fork, hiking near the Maroon Bells in the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness, enjoying the caverns and hot springs in Glenwood Springs, the Aspen Institute and Rocky Mountain Institute conferences, the Aspen Music Festival, and numerous other cultural events attract visitors year-round.

Robert DeMott

A lifelong fly fisherman, DeMott is an International Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor, a graduate of Western Rivers Professional Guide School, a member of both the American Museum of Fly Fishing and the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Anglers' Club of New York,and a life member of Trout Unlimited.

Wilford Woodruff

Woodruff learned to fly fish in England, and his 1847 journal account of his fishing in the East Fork River is the earliest known account of fly fishing west of the Mississippi River.

Woolly Bugger

John Gierach, a noted Fly Fishing writer discussed the Woolly Bugger first in his chapter on streamers in Good Flies.


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Ashe County, North Carolina

In 1998 the river was designated an "American Heritage River" by President Bill Clinton, and it is famed for its beautiful rural scenery, clear water, fly fishing, and kayaking and canoeing.

Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum

It is a sister museum to Italy’s International Museum of Fly Fishing, Stanislao Kuckiewicz in Castel di Sangro.

Don Martinez

Martinez was also a founder of the Izaak Walton League and is credited with introducing dry fly fishing to Yellowstone National Park in the 1930s.

Doug Worgul

Matthew Quick, author of the critically acclaimed novel Silver Linings Playbook, praised Thin Blue Smoke, saying "As Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It does for Montana fly-fishing, Doug Worgul’s Thin Blue Smoke makes the poetry of Kansas City barbecue accessible to all readers. More than gorgeous prose and fully developed characters — this novel offers us catharsis. Communion has never tasted so good."

Federation of Fly Fishers

Gene Anderegg orchestrated a correspondence among many fly fishing clubs, aided by the support of angling notables Lee Wulff and Ed Zern that resulted in the first conclave being held in June 1965.

Harlem Meer

Ron P. Swegman, fly fishing author, made Harlem Meer a focal point of the essay collection Small Fry: The Lure of the Little.

Lignum vitae

Greenheart was used to make the acclaimed Hardy's Greenheart fly fishing rods, by Hardy Brothers of Alnwick.

Spey

Spey casting, a fly fishing technique developed on the River Spey