While work and family prevent me from fishing as much as I would like I am active in fly tying and the major focus of my blog will be towards that art. At times I will look into other areas that impact the sport of fishing such as restoration efforts, book reviews, travel, etc. but all with the general theme of fly fishing and fly tying. http://www.flyfishingconditions.com Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:52:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.flyfishingconditions.com/myblog/long-island-bahamas-bonefishing_2.html Has anyone out there been to Stella Maris for boonefishing? I&#39;m making a short trip thre in July and would like to know what others have experienced there in the past. I&#39;m really interested in hearing what fly patterns have proved successful and chances of catching other species like barracuda and permit. jkolesar2006@charter.net Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100 destination http://www.flyfishingconditions.com/myblog/book-review-fly-fishing-for-striped-bass-by-rich-murphy_2.html &nbsp; <p>&nbsp;</p><p align="center">Fly Fishing for Striped Bass</p><p align="center">By Rich Murphy</p><p>Filled with great color photographs and illustrations this book is destined to become a classic of fishing literature. Written by someone who has obviously spent a great deal of time fishing for and studying stripers Fly Fishing for Striped Bass is the quintessential writing on striped bass and striped bass fishing.</p><p>Rich&#39;s profession as a civil engineer carries over into his boo [...] jkolesar2006@charter.net Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.flyfishingconditions.com/myblog/atlantic-salmon-in-new-england_2.html &nbsp; <p>A few weeks ago while visiting my local fly shop I came upon a book about the history of the Bogdan reels. These high end fly fishing reels are synonymous with Atlantic salmon fishing. Needless to say a book about Atlantic salmon reels had lots of old photos of salmon. These weren&#39;t the days of catch and release but the days of plenty when it was catch and eat. The fish were large, very large, like 20 - 30 pounds of Atlantic salmon hanging by their tails from a pole. And of course [...] jkolesar2006@charter.net Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Atlantic Salmon http://www.flyfishingconditions.com/myblog/grizzly-king-streamer_2.html &nbsp; <p>Grizzly King Streamer</p><p>Here in southern New Hampshire we have had record snow fall this winter and a large snow pack still remains on the ground. The weather has been warming and the stream levels are higher than they have been in the past 2 years when we have had low to extremely low conditions for the spring trout season. Conditions look promising this year for early season trout fishing for a change.</p><p>Browsing through a book of trout fly patterns several weeks ago I came u [...] jkolesar2006@charter.net Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100 flies