Category: Fly Fisher Fitness

Cold Weather Fishing

Cold Weather Fishing
Cold weather fishing on a Google search gives you advice on gear and adapting your techniques. “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.” What about your metabolism? Before you even consider presentations, keeping ice out of your guides, the right flies or (heaven forbid) switching to live bait, think more foundationally. Assess your physical condition.

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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, steering your endowed biology toward healing. But as we age, our biology dulls. Healing slows. The processes that keep us strong, vigorous, spry, resilient and vital diminish. Immune functions, biological healing, rebuilding and recycling (of senescent cells) becomes less robust with age. But you have agency over how you age………

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Tips For Aging Anglers

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. You are in the right place. Read on…….

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Hardcore FlyFishing

High temperatures, freezing temperatures, brutal wind, ice or penetrating sun–do these conditions intimidate or hold you back? Or do they get you excited…..?Read on…..

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Prepare for Flyfishing Season

A Fly Fisher Dream
Flyfishing is demanding. The benefits of physical preparedness through exercise will enhance your flyfishing at the foundational level. Being a fit fly fisher also offers numerous health benefits that directly contribute to a more enjoyable and fulfilling experience, long-term fly fishing for the aging angler……

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12 Reasons to Exercise Now

12 Reasons to Exercise Now
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.  

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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. Find 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 […]

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My Interview on Carolina Outdoors

Interview on Carolina Outdoors
It’s not pie-in-the-sky, it’s possible! The kind but firm older gentleman who threw my doughball into the dumpster and tied on my first fly was 85-years-old. He waded the aptly-named Slippery Rock Creek like a 30-year-old. I asked him what his secret was and he said, “when you get older, things happen……..

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Fly Fish More-Override Aging

Fly Fish More-Override Aging
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 help you re-think aging, to enjoy the aging process….. Innovating our way to more……….

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