These Guy's Video is Very Impressive

Dang this is good!

Flats of the High Desert from GreenDrakeOutdoors on Vimeo.

Three New Carp on the Fly Videos

Katy and I were at the Carp Lodge for a few days last week.  It was 22 degrees; everything was covered in hoarfrost.  It was stark and beautiful.  

I'm working on three new videos.  The first one is "Dreaming of Warm Summer Days".  It will be finished this week.  It is only 2 1/2 minutes long.  It has five takes in it and a cool special effect.  I have had fun putting it together.  

The second one is "The Future is Now".  I have a long way to go on this one.  I have selected a couple video clips from my accumulated library.  It will have a futuristic special effect in it but I have to get better at using the effect before I can finish this one and I need to select more video.

I have selected 15 video segments from my library for "Lessons from the Carp Lodge--Episode #5".  I'm excited about this one as I have been working on it off and on for months.  "Episode #4" was just published about a month ago so that makes it sound like I was working on "Episode #5" before "Episode #4".  I was working on them at the same time.  "Episode #5--Casting and Fishing with Confidence" will have a lot fishing video in it.  I will write an article for CarpPro magazine in conjunction with producing this video.  

Stay tuned...

Lots of Good Information and Some Cool Pictures

Check out Issue #6 of CarpPro Magazine.  Good information supplemented by cool pictures sure makes for a fun read.  Enjoy!

Lessons from the Carp Lodge: Episode #4--Dragging and Dropping the Fly

At the center of this episode is a demonstration of how to use the drag and drop technique.  It is fun, exciting, and kind of sexy to make a long cast to a tailing carp and see him take the fly.  There are times however, when the water, the sky, or both are cloudy.  And when they are I can't see fish until I am very close to them so I end up dropping the fly in front of them.  It is always fun to catch carp but dropping the fly isn't as glamorous as making long casts.

There are times when the fish is too close to make a cast where I shoot line but too far away to just drop the fly.  In those circumstances I plop the fly out past the fish.  A plop is a short cast or lob where I don't shoot any line.  The fly hits the water first and it makes a plopping sound.  The plop sets up the drag and drop.  After the plop I drag the fly across the water and then drop it either on the carp's dinner plate or in it's path.  It is an extremely effective technique.  There are a good many fish that I would not have caught were it not for the drag and drop technique.  Mastering this technique will increase your hook-ups.

Episode #4 begins with some narration and video showing the joys and frustrations of fly fishing for carp and then finishes with a feeding fish responding to a Chocolate Cherry that has been dragged and dropped in his path.  The fish, the plop, the drag and drop, and the take are all very clear in this video.

"Long Shot" Video

Erin Block and Jay Zimmerman are in a very cool carp video called Long Shot.  Check it out; you'll like it.

McTage is a "Cover Boy"!

Wow, take a look at issue 5 of CarpPro magazine.  McTage has his picture on the front.  You know that old saying, "Don't judge a book by it's cover"; well, I don't think it is true for magazines.  Seeing him on the cover tells me that this issue will be good.  It is.  Check it out.

"Soft Porn" Contest Winners

Thanks so much to the people who sent entries for the "soft porn" photo contest!  Entries came from three continents; that was so cool!

I read the guidelines to my wife, Katy.  She looked through the pictures. The first time through she had four favorites.  She looked again and got it down to three.  She stepped away from the computer for a bit and came back.  She got it down to two at that point and suggested we cut the line in half.  One of the things that has helped us stay happily married for 36 years is that I listen and cooperate.  I cut the line.

Okay, fine, I didn't really cut the line.  The rest of the story is true though.  Katy did finally make a choice for first place and second place.  

Second place goes to Randy Skidgel from California.  Congratulations Randy! You have won a Got Backing? T-shirt.  Here is Randy's picture.

I know you are already one of the cool kids in your neighborhood, Randy but this shirt will really cement your image and your status.  Here is the picture that is on the shirt.  What size do you wear?  

First place goes to Tom Schwartz from Oregon.  Congratulations Tom!  You win the new Orvis Hydros Carp line.  I just love the line and I hope you do too.  Here is Tom's picture.  

The line you will receive looks like this, Tom.  See, no cut after all.  

Randy and Tom, please contact me with your mailing addresses.  I will get the prizes shipped promptly.  Thanks again to everyone who entered.