Original Gangsta

Fly fishing author, Pete McDonald (pictured here holding a very expensive Hardy reel) recently posted about the lengths a city dwelling angler will go to get his fix.

On the slack tide there is no better way to see New York City than by boat. Up the East River past the hospitals and Gracie Mansion and into the Harlem River past the fishing pier and under the draw bridges and up to catch a glance of baseball’s Cathedral in the Bronx. Then running back down and hooking under the Triboro and through Hell’s Gate past the DEP boats and between the Two Brothers to watch the planes land at Laguardia or wave to the prisoners shooting hoops on the Rikers overflow barge.

Read the rest here at Fishing Jones and keep an eye to the shelves for his book coming out soon.

Fishing flies NSFW?

Recently we noticed Carp Zen Master Jean-Paul Lipton of Roughfisher.com's online store, where anglers can purchase some of his excellent and innovative fishing flies. We were perplexed and concerned when we noted that the provocative name of the assortment pictured above, "The Pleasure Pack" had probably caused our IT department to put us on a special list. It's not hard to picture the looks we now got from them after they reviewed their spy logs and found we had been surfing the net for such items. It doesn't help matters any that one of the flies in the assortment is the "Darth Clam."

FlyfishMagazine Redux: Orange Jumpsuit Fly Fishing

Trying to sell your house takes lots of time. That's why you are getting another look at our story about Prison Fly Fishing. Think of it as trying to brownline without getting shanked.

"Broughton Pond is actually two ponds that are sandwiched between two correctional facilities. One is Foothills Correctional Institute, a traditional looking prison with the razor wire, searchlights, and guys with shotguns etc. The other is a high rise building that holds juvenile offenders. Apparently the hunters in the area are not the only ones required to wear blaze orange."