Real Fly Fishers Drink Hot Tea

Think you’re tough? Then you better tote along a thermos of hot tea to take the ice off of your rod and guides and fly line next time you’re out there in sub-zero-degree weather. “He dipped the rod into the river, hoping the flowing water would free the frozen guides. But a two-week cold snap had dropped the river’s temperature so close to the freezing point that its thawing powers were zapped.” Tony Kelso talks about Richard Kelso fishing Alaska’s Kenai in the middle of winter in the Anchorage Daily News.