Category: Fly Fisher Fitness

Fly Fisher Fitness Book

Fly fishing is bliss. It is finesse, restraint, and serenity far more than bravado. Sunrise over a meadow stream. A trout sipping your fly, then its sudden dash, stripping line from the reel. Time stops. Hearts pound. Hands shake. Later, the memory feels dreamlike. Every outing is different. Every outing is a gift. You want to return again and again—until you are one hundred years old.

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Your Body Is an Ecosystem

My work as a wildlife biologist centered on habitat—evaluating and, when necessary, restoring wetlands, estuaries, salt marshes, forests, and prairies to ensure their health and integrity. The health of each habitat contributes upward to the overall wellness of the larger ecosystem: the entire community of living things. Your body is an ecosystem. The “habitats” that contribute to your personal biological ecosystem include your muscles, tendons, organs, nervous system, gut, and many others.

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Engineered for Longevity

In one of the harshest environments on Earth, the bowhead does not merely survive. The bowhead whale is now considered a model of longevity. Its slow metabolism, late maturity, and low reproductive rate reflect a different biological strategy—one that does not rush. It invests in durability. It builds systems that resist disease, adapt to stress, and repair damage over time.

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Fly Fisher Fitness Connection

Fly fisher fitness connection. There is a clear relationship, yet the connection is often brushed aside or overlooked. When I retired at age sixty-four, I began fly-fishing in earnest and joined fly-fishing clubs to accelerate my learning. The Fly Fisher Fitness initiative grew out of what I observed. Viewing fly-fishing clubs and the broader fly-fishing […]

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Fly-fishing for Reds in an Arctic Blast

We didn’t plan to go Fly-fishing for Reds in an Arctic blast. In fact, we planned for warmth. I’ve always viewed life as a sport—one that rewards attention, extra effort and adaptation. Growing older has shown me that survival is also a sport. Conditions change, margins narrow, and the cost of complacent contentment rises. Serious […]

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Blue-Line Fly-Fishing, My First Adventure

Blue-line fly-fishing and my first adventure came about when I suddenly realized there was a word and a concept for how I spent my childhood. No one in my family fished or hung-out in the outdoors. But on my own, I played in small streams the way other kids catch baseball, play games in the […]

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Cold Weather Fishing

Cold weather fishing on a Google search gives you advice on gear and adapting your techniques. Here’s the AI overview: “cold weather fishing requires adapting your techniques, targeting warmer water areas, using slower presentations, and considering live bait instead of lures, as fish metabolism slows down in colder temperatures.” The search page goes on to describe […]

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Fast Fitness Facts

Fast Fitness Facts The human body has a remarkable ability to heal itself. You slice open your knee, an Urgent Care angel stitches it up. The healing part is invisible. Unknowable forces of Nature course through your body, stirring your endowed biology toward healing. But as we age, our biology dulls. The processes that keep […]

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Tips For Aging Anglers

We all get older. It’s the long-term quality of life as we age that dictates our experience. Better quality of life with age means the ability to what we love regardless of age. In our case it’s fly fishing with vigor for longer. Purpose: If your line is not in the water, you have zero […]

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Hardcore FlyFishing

Most fly fishers I talk with have one thing in common. They are not hardcore flyfishing because of physical deterioration. How do I know they are declining by just talking? Well, they all share their ‘specific’ issue that limits their ability to fly fish the way they would like—hardcore, for extended periods. Thing is, they’re […]

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