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February 27, 2016 by Puff Mud Diaries
Social media made our big, beautiful world so small that we forget what damage could be done almost instantly with …
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Category: Articles, Fly Fishing Adventures, Fly Fishing Destinations, Get Outside, Native Trout, Trout, Wild Trout
| Tags: blue line, dryfly, dryfly fishing, fishing and social media, fishing secrets, flyfishing, mountains, mountains and valleys, native trout, peace, secret fishing holes, topo, Topo maps, trout
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May 16, 2014 by Puff Mud Diaries
Mid May and I have missed the bloom of the bluettes along the banks of my favorite trout streams. Too …
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Category: Get Outside
| Tags: Autumn, bluette, brothers, brothers of the art, flyfishing, ghosts, mountains and valleys, native trout, trout, wild trout
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August 28, 2012 by Puff Mud Diaries
Spruce Pine, North Carolina is not a bustling metropolis with skyscrapers and traffic choked freeways. It is a sleepy little …
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Category: Articles, Fly Fishing Adventures, Fly Fishing Destinations
| Tags: antique cars, car show, Classic Cars, little switzerland nc, lowcountry, mountains, mountains and valleys, north carolina, roan mountain, Spruce Pine
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August 17, 2012 by Puff Mud Diaries
When I created Art of the Angle, I had in mind an all encompassing view of the name. The “art” …
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Category: Articles, Fly Fishing Adventures, Fly Fishing Destinations, Fly Tying, Trout, Uncategorized, Wood Carvings
| Tags: Autumn, blue line, brook trout, brown trout, fall, Hand Tied Flies, mountains and valleys, native trout, rainbow trout, waterfalls, wet flies
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March 27, 2012 by Puff Mud Diaries
As the thunder rolled and the thermometer promised to not rise above 65 degrees, our first fly fishing trip together …
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Category: Articles, Fly Fishing Destinations
| Tags: Autumn, fly fishing, freshwater flies, inn, little switzerland nc, mountains and valleys, native trout, north carolina, Richmond, Spruce Pine
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March 23, 2012 by Puff Mud Diaries
Finally! Barring any unforseen catastrophes, I will be fishing the great North Carolina mountain streams this weekend. My bride to …
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Category: Fly Fishing Adventures, Fly Fishing Destinations
| Tags: Beginner Fly Fishing, bream, brown trout, flyfishing, little switzerland nc, lowcountry, mountains, mountains and valleys, native trout, north carolina, pond, rainbow trout, roan mountain
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September 18, 2011 by Puff Mud Diaries
…”there once was an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill”…for all of you Tolkien fans, you …
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Category: Articles
| Tags: and winter brook., Autumn, little switzerland nc, merry old inn, mountains, mountains and valleys, roan mountain
