Tippets: Guiding Jim Harrison, Reading Water

March 31, 2016 By: Erin Block

  • Author and fly fishing guide Callan Wink describes a day of fishing with  his favorite client, the late Jim Harrison, in an article from a few years back. “Jim was the consummate poet,” Wink writes. “Often I’d look back at him and his fly would be trailing way off behind the boat and he’d be concentrating on something on the bank or flying over head, birds never failed to derail his attention.” Via Men’s Journal.
  • For success, anglers depend on being able to read nuances in water and weather. Tristan Gooley writes about a day spent on the water with expert Stuart Crofts, and what he learned in the process. “Fly-fishing is about understanding the water, the fish and the insects they eat, and recognizing how the slightest breeze or even the movement of a cloud across the sun changes everything.”  Via The Independent.