Text & photographs: Jose H. Weigand

Today, still few people out of Spain know that there is brown trout from the Pyrenees to Granada, in the south part of the country, in front of Africa. Big rivers, chalk streams, small creeks or mountain lakes, in the southernmost part of Europe.

It was said that, at the beginning of 19th century, a squirrel could travel north to south Spain without stepping on the ground, by the trees. So, were the trout rivers in the country and still they are but many of them affected with dams, pollution, abusive use of water and all the damages that humans have done all over the planet.

Anyway, trout fishing in Spain is still important. Every year, fishermen wait to the season opening third Sunday in March with the same expectation as in the old times. Worm, spinning and fly fisherman form the trout fishing community, thousands of licenses that every weekend walk the river banks in search of browns. Trout fishing in Spain is legislated mainly by different regional licenses and a draw the year before, but also there are free access sections in every river. Mid October is the end of the season.
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Bob Meade Rockin out with his This is Fly shirt. Almost gone - get one!

Even with gas prices at an all time high most of us have a few extra dollars in the wallet. Take some time and check out Rivers For Recovery. A worth while venture for a few people that have made the ultimate sacrifice. They should have a donation page up soon so please check back with a credit card.
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You thought you knew about fish? I don’t think this much. Check out FishBase.org - is a global information system with all you ever wanted to know about fishes. Basically this site holds all fish species known to science. Go fish crazy !
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by Captain Gordon Churchill
When I took hunter ed back in the day, the man teaching the class used to say that the way to measure what kind of person you are, is what kind of thing you do when nobody will know what it is you did. His implication was that when you are out hunting you are usually miles away from where anybody will see; you so if you shoot deer or turkey out of season, or bait a duck blind. you most likely will not get caught but you will know what you did. The situation of gill nets wasting fish is directly comparable. If you are trying to catch flounder and set a net where you know a whole school of red drum is swimming, you know the reds will be wasted. Many of the guys out there do not care.
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Tibor Reels is finally live - surf through some Tibor history, check out your favorite reels, and get some tips on how to handle 4-5 piece fly rods. If you still have enough energy after all of that excitement, drop in and get a t-shirt or logo hat.
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Check out this silk-screened tote with fish by Virginia Johnson. This could be the weekend bag for your wife as you hit the flats - or the bag for you both as you pursue those big bones.
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Here is an article I found this morning about Lefty Kreh by Ray Sasser of the Dallas Morning News. Lefty was in Dallas promoting a book writen about him All The Best, Celebrating Lefty Kreh by Flip Pallot with contributions by Bob Clouser, Nick Lyons and John Randolph to name a few. The end of the article is interesting when you get a list of LEFTYISMS • Casting is simple. And clocks ain’t got a damn thing to do with it. If you did that 9 o’clock to 1 o’clock stuff all day, your arm would fall off.
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by Vito Bloom

I spent a lot of time in my life on a skateboard, a little over thirty to be exact. Injuries caught up to me and now I’m too old and too fat to skate. Not skating left a huge hole in my life and an addiction in need of a fix. That thought inspired me to start a website to showcase my skateboard designs and I call my design site 222 (2 old, 2 fat, 2 skate, get it). That filled the void a little, but still something was missing. O.k. by now I can almost hear you saying “what the hell does this have to do with fly fishing?” I’ll tell you what; it’s the “flow”.

The day that I set my feet on a skateboard was the day I got my first fix of the flow. That feeling of carving back and forth while rolling on some smooth asphalt was an incredible rush. I skated all day and when I wasn’t skating all I can do was think about it. I was either reading skateboard magazines or talking about skateboarding. It consumed me. Anywhere I could find a banked driveway, hill, or a rare ramp, I had to hit it and get my fix. The people around me that never put a foot on a skateboard didn’t understand, they couldn’t understand. I would try and explain my addiction to them only to get puzzled looks and shaking heads. It made me feel like I was a heroin addict trying to explain how a needle going into a vein can feel like heaven.
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We just got back back from a red fishin trip in NC with Captain Gordon Churchill. No internet meant no posts – we are back and will be delivering some really good content. Hang in there - and thanks for reading.