Tippets: Flood Relief for South Carolina, Casting Heavy Streamers, Hemingway’s Early Years

October 9, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • After Hurricane Joaquin, photographer Jeremiah Clark had a unique photo session (and fishing opportunity) in downtown Charleston. Prints of the photos are now available, with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross in the lowcountry.
  • When throwing large flies and streamers, adjust your stroke to avoid tangled lines. The key, writes Phil Monahan, is to “slow everything down, widen your loops, and avoid sudden changes in direction.” Read more and watch an instructional video via Orvis.
  • Before Ernest Hemingway was a famed author, he was a young man in northern Michigan, “fishing, hunting, drinking and chasing girls.” John O’Connor writes about how these early years shaped Hemingway, and how he “spent his whole life returning to northern Michigan.” Via The New York Times.