tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62703590413444283682024-03-05T00:25:17.282-08:00ALL ABOUT FISHINGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270359041344428368.post-41106909666382459792013-01-20T09:02:00.003-08:002023-02-17T10:52:02.417-08:00WELCOME TO OUR FISHING BLOG!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Welcome to ALL ABOUT FISHING! Please feel free to leave your comments and ideas. Your are going to find a little bit of everything in this blog about our favorite sport and pastime. I will cover fly, spincast, and baitcasting with topics such as <u><span style="color: red;">Dragenstein, the reel drag testing beast</span></u>, <u><span style="color: red;">reel drags</span></u> and how they work, the science of <u><span style="color: red;">tribology</span></u> and how it works in your reel, <u><span style="color: red;">EZ Flycaster</span><span style="color: red;"> Lines</span>,</u> the art of fly fishing with a spinning outfit, <u><span style="color: red;">fishing lines</span></u> and <u><span style="color: red;">knot studies</span></u>, purist <u><span style="color: red;">fly fishing, casting</span></u>, how to <span style="color: red;"><u>get the most from your spin fishing gear</u></span>, and many other topics. There will also be various written articles about all aspects of fishing. This is a work in progress and I will be adding to it nearly daily. Please come back again and again as it will be a very large body of material and will take some time to post it all. I hope you enjoy and benefit from the information.</span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>ezflycaster@gmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270359041344428368.post-44434906873424025252013-01-20T08:48:00.003-08:002023-02-22T10:41:32.121-08:00ALL ABOUT FISHING<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Exceeded all time world record on fly and</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Exceeded 20# heavy world record on fly</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Key West, Florida</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>1993</em></strong></span></td></tr>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> I was fortunate to grow up in a family where fishing was everything and money no object (boy how time changes things).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That meant that anything that was called “fishing” was worth the time and money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was still very young my Father and Grandfather would take me along on their weekend jaunts to rivers and lakes in the Ozarks, and I accompanied them on weekly trips to a local stream to catch bait for the next weekend of fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fished for whatever was in season and with whatever equipment we had at hand . . . and there was no shortage of the various types of fishing equipment of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong><em>about 1950 from James River Missouri</em></strong></span></td></tr>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> My first fishing outfits were early day baitcasting rigs, before the invention of the Garcia Ambassador.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were called “baitcasting” back then because for the most part that was how we used them; casting minnows, worms, crawfish, chicken livers, shrimp, catalpa worms, or whatever was available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On some occasions we took float trips where we would cast so-called “plugs” for bass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plugs were wooden lures typically made by Heddon, Arbogast, or some other lure manufacturing company of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometime in my early teens my Grandfather gave all the fishermen in the family a new Johnson Century rod and closed-face spinning reel for Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was my first experience with spin fishing and my fishing world was never again the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>about 1930's with a "limit" of bass</em></strong></span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> Fly rods were also a part of our arsenal on most weekend trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had the best you could buy at the time and for the most part my Father and Grandfather thought they were new-issue cane poles and primarily amused themselves with these long rods catching crappie, bream, and catfish when possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all had spring loaded line retrieval of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I naturally gravitated to them for an occasional bout of throwing popping bugs and streamers for bass and bream even though the grownups never used them that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one cared back then how you fished as long as you were fishing and having fun at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And boy was I having fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> So that brings me to today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am always amazed that there are conclaves of anglers who think that they can look down their noses at each others choice of equipment in pursing the fabulous pastime of fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not just referring to fly fishermen here who discriminate against spin and baitcasting, since I see this same elitism displayed by bass anglers using spin and baitcasting equipment against fly fishermen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> I am writing this in hopes that you will first; understand how a devoted fly fisherman such as me can design, manufacture, and market such a wide variety of items for all types of fishing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And secondly, and perhaps mostly, I hope you will begin to open your eyes and mind (in case they are closed) to the other parts of the fishing world and all the fun you may be missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the trout in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Juan</st1:place></st1:city> are locked onto a Baetis hatch, don’t offer me a spinning rod (unless it has an EZ Flycaster Fishing Line on it), and when the bass are taking a vertically jigged spinner at 30 feet, you won’t see me with a fly rod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fishing in all of its many forms is a beautiful pastime and I want to encourage all of you to enjoy it to its fullest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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