(Apologies for no recent posts. I have a
"part-time" retirement job that seems to keep morphing into
full-time, despite my best efforts to the contrary. When I have the time to hit
the water, the weather and other commitments scheme against me, and when
everything else should be good, I don't have the time. I'm trying to make that
change this year.)
Ross at "Backcountry FFP" is based in Colorado,
and his casts (pardon the pun) reflect that. He hits the water at altitudes
over a mile regularly, and therefore his approach is different than that of
Matthew at "Casting Across," who is a pastor in Vermont, the
"Green Mountain State." Both of them are different than mine here in
the Lake Superior watershed. Jon at Dead Drift Outdoors lives in the Southern
Tier of Upstate New York, where I grew up and, with the addition of the western
Adirondack Mountains, where I learned to fish. Those streams, some of which I'm
fairly sure I recognize from back in the day, are very similar to the ones I
fish today in Northwest Wisconsin and Minnesota's Arrowhead region.
Earlier this week, Jon posted a video of fishing a stream in
the Southern Tier, his first this year, and I really enjoyed it. I am
(hopefully) re-posting it here, and I would encourage you to check it out, like
it, and subscribe to his YouTube channel. His podcasts are top-notch, filmed
beautifully, and highly informative as well as entertaining. I am also posting
links to "The Backcountry Fly Fishing Podcast" and "Casting
Across." You should check those out as well. You'll be glad you did.
Dead Drift Outdoors:
The Backcountry Fly Fishing Podcast
