Welcome to Fly Fishing West Georgia and Beyond. I hope there's plenty of info here to get you excited about some of the world's finest fly fishing. No, that's not hyperbole. West Georgia has some of best fishing anywhere - look around and see what I mean.

Flog

March 9 - Fished at Callaway today with Rodney D. from Birmingham. Started off slow and cold, but Rodney was soon into the trout. He billed himself as something of a novice, but that may have been sand-bagging. With my 4 wt TiCRX and a 150 grain Teeny head, he was adding a slick little "strip-tease" (a la Gary Borger) to his retrieve and boated the fine rainbow shown below. And the strip-tease continued to work all day.

February 26 - It's been a rop-roarer of a month - lots of fine trout at Callaway and a precious few stripers on the Hooch and over in Alabama in a couple of spots. But for me the highlight was a coastal NC road trip that mixed visiting TFO dealers (my new job) with doing a casting clinic for the Cape Lookout Fly Fishing Club. Capped the trip off with a trip on the brackish Neuse River with Capt. Gary Dubiel, owner-operator of Spec Fever Fishing Guide Service. You've probably heard of Gary and all the good things they say are true - on the heels of a hard cold front and with some heavily-stained water, Gary put me on striper, redfish, and largemouth bass, all before lunch. Call him!

Jan 12 - Fishing the trout at Callaway has been gang-busters this year - today with Janet & George from Macon. They are usually fishing stripers on the Hooch with me in January, but with no water and few fish there we decided on the Callaway trout. And these folks caught trout as big as some pretty good stripers, including this big kipe-jawed male that Janet landed.

Dec 29 - Fished today with the Copelands from Newnan - KC and his 3 boys - Josh, Jake & Jesse. These boys wore me out, kicking from one side of the lake to the other, netting fish & taking photos. KC was the only one who'd ever thrown the fly, but the boys caught at least as many fish. If you notice a preponderance of Bama colors, Josh is a pitcher in his senior year. Jesse, the young buck, said to be sure and note that he had the most fish. But then Jake managed to get a bass and a bream in addition to all his trout, so he got the slam. There was some debate over who had the biggest..........

Dec 15-21 - Trout fishing has been pretty much on fire at Callaway all month long, with big fish eating all variety of flies. Here's a nice one from 12/15 that Frank stuck with a big green bugger....

And here's Emily with her 1st fish ever on the fly rod - a nice feisty rainbow that ate a egg-sucking pheasant tail (???)..........

 And from today, Brad's biggest fish on his first day ever with a fly rod....

Nov 11 - `Had a great trip at Callaway today with David, Carmen, Dennis & Mark. Carmen got her first ever on the fly, plus several more. Here's Dennis (below) with one of the day's big fish. The trout were eating almost any fly....as long as you got it deep.

Nov 11 - Fished a club trip at Callaway today with the boys from NGTO. That's always a recipe for fun, and especially today. The fish were eating (BK got around 30), and the weather was perfect.

Many of you already know, but late last year I went to work as the SE rep for Temple Fork Fly Rods ( and a number of other fine tackle companies). It's been pretty dang busy as I settle in to the new job. I've been on the TFO guide program for several years and have become a huge fan of the company and its products - this was just too great an opportunity to pass up. But I'm still guiding on a regular basis, so give me a call and let's go fish.

Maria said she didn't really want to catch a fish -

can you tell?.

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`Callaway got some good coverage in the Columbus paper last week (I got the photo credits).

The Bead-Sucking, Rubber-Legged

Pheasant Tail Nymph.......

it was hot one day recently at Callaway.

Hmmm......what else could we put on here?

The Flint River Chapter of Trout Unlimited

`Got a very nice write-up of an 3/07 interview I did with John Gregg on the West Marine website. It's buried down in their huge site, but you can find it here....

The American Angler article (2006 Summer issue), "The Hidden Stripers of Summer" by friend and customer, Pete Elkins, features good info on hot-weather stripes and gives us good press too. You can read an excerpt here. The article has plenty of good info on catching summer stripes in Georgia.

I have a couple of new rods from  Temple Fork Outfitters . They join several other TFO's that ride my rod rack along with various $600 rods from other manufacturers. I really like the TiCr's - these rod are light and quick but with plenty of power.  If you're looking for a rod with high performance at economy prices, you'll be hard put to do better. Check `em out here.

 ...in the Blog -

"The Most Un-Appreciated Fly Cast"