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NEW  Real Time Fishing Reports  We have begun offering real time fishing reports of our trips, lessons, schools, scouting trips, and more that we will send directly from the field, most of it real time and right from location.  We can sign you up here and it will come straight to your inbox.  Also, we are able to send it as a text message to your phone also.  If you desire this service please contact me here and we'll get you signed up.  Its that simple!

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I wondered for the longest time what the craze was all about.....but its pretty interesting, and a great way to connect with folks with similar interests.  And access to loads of interesting stuff, you'll find more useful and interesting information than anywhere!  You can access our Twitter page here and follow and receive our "tweets'.



Gas Drilling in Appalachia Yields A Foul Byproduct
Lots of drilling or "fracking" going on now in the East in search of a way to tap the huge natural gas field below WV and PA and surrounding areas....interesting, also interesting that there's a lot going on to deal with the byproduct of the process, which is very salty, mineral-laden water, which is a good thing.  Check out more


Obama Administration to Accept No More Public Input for a Federal Strategy...
This is quite scary.....The Obama Administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.  This report by ESPN...check it out here ....

Delayed Harvest Streams were restocked March 1-3, 2010
March marks the beginning of 'new life' for delayed harvest waters.  Stockings will take place during the week of March 1 and run through the first part of the following week.  Expect good fishing from the central mountains north, as we have pretty good flows and better than last fall.  I heard from David Deaton at the Armstrong Hatchery in Marion, NC, where all of the fish for waters in our area come from, and he indicated that barring any major weather issues NCWRC and the Hatchery will proceed with stocking on a normal schedule.

Great Fly Fishing News Website....

Theres a great fly fishing website with wonderful news, tips, techniques, gear reviews, and more.  Its called Midcurrent , visit the site here .  You can sign up for the newsletter and have it delivered right to your inbox.  To sign up click here .

TU Asks For MT Drilling Setbacks
Apparently residents of the Montana valley where the movie "The Horse Whisperer" was filmed aren't the only ones who think that setting up drilling equipment on the banks of the Boulder River is a bad idea. Trout Unlimited just stepped up to the plate and asked the state to reconsider the lack of restrictions in recently auctioned oil and gas leases. "The conservation group is pushing for half-mile setbacks on the best trout streams in the BLM's Billings region, which includes a big chunk of the Yellowstone and Stillwater rivers and a small portion of the Boulder River north of Big Timber." Daniel Person in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.  To learn
more click here .

Yellowstone National Park Road Fall/Early Winter 2009/2010
There's a major road construction project getting underway which will effectively shut down access to many of the park's pristine wilderness areas.  The road work is to bring the roads up to snuff with current use levels and also to work within the short working season here.  By October snow will prevent any more work from being done.  I contacted our friends at Craig Mathew's shop Blue Ribbon Flies in West Yellowstone and here is the scoop I got, you can click here  and download the entire Park road construction plan.



Drawing Flies 365
The art /drawing blog of artist Jeff Kennedy.  Jeff does some amazing stuff utilizing a number of different mediums in drawing and painting flies.  Some of the most unique work you will see anywhere.  He recently did a project called drawing flies 365, a year long project in which he did just that- - drew or painted a fly for each day of the year.  Check out his work at his drawing flies blog here .



Trout in the Classroom NC
The Blue Ridge Chapter of TU in Winston Salem has launched Trout in the Classroom this year.  According to member Steve Hennings Ledford High School in Thomasville and Sugar Loaf Elementary near Taylorsville both have active Trout in the Classroom projects.  They have hatched eggs, and have raised them to free swimming rainbow trout fry.  This is being done in hopes of having fingerling trout to release in spring of 2009.  During this whole process we are connecting kids with the outdoors, making them aware of their watersheds, the importance of protecting them and most everything else in them.  To learn more about this wonderful project visit the TICNC website here .

Fishpond
  Many thanks to John Le Coq and all the wonderful folks at Fishpond for granting
access and signing me on to the Guide/Pro Program.  I love their stuff and am
looking forward to using some of their new products and also promoting their stuff
to others.  They make great luggage, packs, and other accessory items and other
stuff and you can check out all they offer  here .


Simms Rivershed Felt-Free Wading Boots Reviewed
Yesterday Tony Bishop of New Zealand's Bish On Fish blog gave his personal take on Simms's new Rivershed wading boots. Bishop, who bought the boots and wore them for a full week of fishing, says the boots are "85% good." "On 'clean boulders and rocks' the grip was solid. On slime covered rocks not quite as good, you have to be ready for the occasional boot slip. I had cheated a bit - I placed 9 studs around the edges of the sole. (Don't put studs in the centre of the sole, it stops the sole from 'sticking'.)" 


Trout Unlimited Press Release calls for Cessation of Felt Sole Manufacturing
Timing is everything, it seems, even when it comes to fly fishing conservation. Just two days before the opening of the Fly Fishing Retailer Show in Denver, Trout Unlimited issued a press release asking manufacturers to cease production of felt-sole waders and boots by 2011.  For more info click here ....



Cliff Outdoors
  We are excited to have the opportunity to have access to the Complete line of Cliff Outdoors products.  Matt Cassel and all the guys at Cliff Outdoors, "Cliffitarians" as they would call them selves, have graciously made available their products for testing and trying out.  Visit their website here . 



Check out our new and developing Fly Tying  Website  We have been working for sometime on a new fly tying website, complete with tying instructions in easy to follow step by step fashion, and also with video capability as well.  Its still a developing "work in progress"  and will only get better and better as we continue to flesh it all out.  Be sure to check it out  here .

 Check out our updated Blog site called "The Chronicles of Sir Castalot"   -We had been making plans for a very long time to update and refresh an old blogsite that we had had for some time.  Well, its finally underway and the new blogsite will be getting a lot more content in the coming weeks as well.  To check out where we are with it at this point click here .  You will find a lot of video media and info on our most recent 2008 Wyoming Sampler Trip.

 
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Protect Your WatersA great site with lots of information about managing and dealing with invasive aquatic plants, weeds, and more.  This is a concern for all anglers, as we must constantly address the spreading of nuisance plants and organisms.  They can "hitch a ride" on our clothing and gear, and then released into other bodies of water---and potentially become established and create drastic results.  Learn more  here . 

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Jeffrey Wilkins Fly Fishing
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