Trash on the Fly

  The Mexican Restaurant Fishing Club held an impromptu meeting after a scouting trip.  It was one of those “it’s all about the experience / it’s just good to be out on the water” days. It’s always good to learn a thing or two on a scouting trip.  This day’s lesson:  you can haul hay in a Nissan.

Steve and I were ditch fishin this day and I somehow pushed the “Soft Focus 70s” button on the camera for an accidental effect. Anyway, we got kind of intense about the whole sight fishing thing and I think he was too busy down the bank to come and take a snapshot so I had [...]

Wikipedia defines apex predator as …predators that, as adults, are not normally preyed upon in the wild by other large animals in significant parts of their range. In other words, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Grizzly Bear, Bald Eagle, Great White Shark– most of us would just call them badass. trashonthefly defines trash* as Fish species that under-observant anglers [...]

My friends Alex and Mark were the creators of Laughing Bass– an internet fishing show.  The show and the Laughing Bass site have long since been abandoned, although some videos still exist on YouTube. Alex and Mark came to Big D to film a carp episode for Laughing Bass in late July 2005, which spawned the [...]

The latest version of the Sucker Punch - The One True Carp Fly.      The new materials list is:   Rust thread. Bead Chain Eyes – large (5/32″), black. Centipede Legs – Montana Fly Company, Speckled Orange #801, size Mini #0. Wapsi Life Cycle Peacock Dubbing, Crawdub Burnt Orange Dubbing. Hot Orange Pheasant Rump.   [...]

Lucky for the internet (</sarcasm>), when I failed to stay current on my web hosting bill I was forced this week to create a new edition of the infamous– or is it the UNfamous– trashonthefly.com Lucky for me, being a packrat has paid off and I have plenty of old versions of the site languishing [...]