I spent part of this afternoon replacing the floating fly lines on the rods I use to teach fly casting. Makes a huge difference in casting distance I hope that my students on Friday will be casting like pros in an hour or so. I clean lines regularly but still they get stepped on, the coating gets broken and after about a year they're hard to cast. Easy enough to order replacements and it only takes an hour or so to put the replacements on.
As a working guide I frequently get asked a lot of outdoors questions by not only by clients but my friends and even folks I only sort of know. Sometimes about the laws and rules but more often about local natural events. Such as are the alewives in the river? Are the bass spawning? What are those ducks at the end of the pond?
I love the variety this time of year. In the past week my clients and I have fly fished for native brook trout on a small stream, bass fished on a clear lake, learned to cast a fly line, caught their first perch and caught stripers in the saltwater. This is the stretch where I constantly feel like I should be somewhere else but in reality, everywhere is the right place for a few weeks anyway.
