FATC "Fly Shop"
Like any good fly shop that is filled with fisherman and their stories, here you will find tidbits of information related to our wonderful sport of Fly Fishing. Come here to find information that you may not find elsewhere.
Although, unlike most fly shop “tales”, this is all true…
Fly Shop: The Butt Ugly Fly
Fly fishers always look for a good excuse to go fishing. And when the word gets out that the aquatic insects are getting ready to hatch, what fly fisher wouldn’t head out to the river to enjoy it? This was the year of the great cicada hatch here in the … Read More…
Fly Shop: Stories from the Stream – A Fly Fishing Guide to Purposeful Living
Guest Blogger Steve Ehrlich tells us how fly fishing and a purposeful life go hand in hand. Steve has a Ph.D. and lifelong, parallel careers in adult education and fly fishing. Stories from the Stream: A Fly Fishing Guide to Purposeful Living Norman Maclean’s celebrated narrative, “A River Runs Through … Read More…
Fly Shop Special Event – Blaine Chocklett
This past weekend (Feb 22-23) top fly tier and guide, Blaine Chocklett, was in town for a fly tying class and seminar at Feathercraft fly shop. Blaine is a guide in Virginia and fishes all of the waters in that region. Kenny Klimes and Ron “the Berwyn Bear” Fiala signed … Read More…
Fly Shop: I’m NOT Catching – Why??
So why do we have bad days of “catching” when others on the same waters, on the same day and even using some of the same flies are catching two, three times as many fish? I’ll try to go over some ideas for you to think about that will make … Read More…
Fly Shop: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda….I have been Shooting Myself in the Foot!
After a recent fly-fishing trip one of our guys came up to me with concerns of his last outing on the water. He was trying to figure out why he had a poor day on the water catching and others were doing much better. Like all of us should do, … Read More…