Author: georgerbrownii

I have to admit that after staring at those beautiful blanks, and then coming to the realization that they still needed to be cut to size and sanded for ferrule fitting, I became a little intimidated. The process itself was a little nerve-racking. Matching the taper on the butt and tip section, cutting to size, […]

I recently had the pleasure of fishing with Tommy from Following Ghost. Thoughts and pictures (possibly a video?) to follow. In the meantime, I’ve got to figure out how I’m going to replace a broken rod…

The bass are certainly still biting. Only difference is the summer bite is in full swing, and summer has certainly shown up in full force. The bass bite it getting later and later. For a while there I was hooking decent fish in the late afternoon. Now, the bite doesn’t really start until well after […]

If you’ve been let down because my previous posts provided little to no insight into fishing then you’re really going to be disappointed in this one.

We’re finally having a full week in Nashville. We had a blast at the gulf last weekend, but I’m pretty excited that we’re going to be in Tennessee for a full week or two. I’ve only had one night back out on the water since we returned, and the number of bass hooked that night […]

I just realized that I didn’t commemorate the anniversary of this blog. One year old – sometime ago in April or March I can’t remember which one. Hooray. This blog has been an interesting embodiment of my current fishing tales. I don’t use it to give reports (nobody really cares anyway). I don’t use it […]

Our dryer is broken again. So, you know what that means. This time we were accompanied by the Kuhlers. Patrick and I got into the strong and incredibly unforgiving surf. This is what happened: and lots of this… 30 something fish, and heads full of saltwater and seaweed, later Patrick and I were sunburnt and […]

The Treadfin Shad are moving into the creeks to spawn. I know this for two reasons: 1) 2) I wore my arm out pulling in bass on a Janet Reno (clouser minnow) I was questioning in my last post if the heat was causing the fish to slow down. No. The Threadfin were just starting […]