Category: Fly Fisher Fitness

A Fly Fisher Dream

A Fly Fisher Dream
  A personal essay. I developed a fly fisher dream while enjoying the outdoors. I monitored birds at multiple feeders and followed birds to find their nests starting at age seven. I tinkered; insects in jars, chipmunks in box traps, I even recovered a young crow that fell from its nest.  On one Cub Scout […]

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Prepare for Flyfishing Season

A Fly Fisher Dream
As you prepare for flyfishing season you’re thinking, true north, otherworldly; a place where time stands still, stress evaporates, nirvana. That’s how you imagine it from afar. The actual concrete version involves reality--wading in cold hazardous water can make flyfishing a stress generator, especially if you’re out of shape. You’re geared up but are you [...]

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12 Reasons Fly Fishers Need to Exercise Now

12 Reasons to Exercise Now
Here are (12 Reasons Fly Fishers Need to Exercise Now) some highlights of what is not taught in school or anywhere else. You cannot buy, synthesize or prescribe the most potent preventive medicine available to man. How you use exercise to improve your fly-fishing is also crucial to your life….The Art in your Aging.   Reasons […]

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Retirement a Flyfishing Rebirth

Retirement a Flyfishing Rebirth
Make retirement a flyfishing rebirth. It’s a big shift for some, impossible dream for others but, It doesn’t have to be that way. Give it some thought. What is easy to grab, the low-hanging fruit? Take a walk, watch the sunrise, contemplate and think. After you return, take time to read this post. It’s alarming […]

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My Interview on Carolina Outdoors

Interview on Carolina Outdoors
My interview on Carolina Outdoors with Bill Bartee and Wes Lawson was exhilarating. These guys are passionate about the outdoors and they know flyfishin You can feel it when you work with great people. The energy, enthusiasm, curiosity is so contagious it elevates your game. I got better by responding to their great questions. Of […]

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Fly Fish More-Override Aging

Fly Fish More-Override Aging
To Fly fish More-Override Aging! Nature has programmed our body to age. It is innate, slow and steady but the signals are soft and easily overridden. Your DNA is still connected to Nature. It’s “listening” for signals from the environment to grow or decline. Everything you do, your choices and lifestyle send coded messages to […]

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Welcome to Fly Fisher Fitness

Fly fish out West
Welcome to Fly Fisher Fitness Welcome to Fly Fisher Fitness! Flyfishing demands a high level of stamina, power and coordination. Too often we develop enough wisdom and skill to be masterful or just when we have the time to fish longer and harder, our health wanes and we begin to deteriorate. We are here to […]

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