4 posts tagged Ian Rutter

This weekend we made our yearly trip to the Fly Fishing and Wing Shooting Show in Charlotte, NC. The show was pretty much the same as every year but we ran into a few familiar faces. Excuse the crappy camera phone photos: Scott Hed, Outreach Director for the Sportsman's Alliance for Alaska.

Nowadays, you seemingly can’t publish a fishing video unless it’s shot somewhere you’d need a helicopter or a couple dozen machete-wielding porters to reach. In truth, fish porn — in the absence of any real insight — pretty much bores the hell out of me, but I am willing to make an exception when

There’s work to be done my friends, and this was a weekend for moving it from the “someday” pile to the “been there, done that” stack. In truth, it was a good time for it; the storm settling over the mountain wasn’t cold and snowy as per forecasts.

Ian & Charity Rutter — who just posted a cool fly fishing the smokies in winter report on their blog — know it’s been a somewhat trying winter at Trout Underground World Headquarters. Crippled by a succession of colds (well, my own incessant whining about it), I’ve struggled with balky computers, power outages, Satan’s Snowblower, and a pretty hefty dose of cabin fever.