Explain Travers? Travers is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, (think “Turducken”, jumbo-sized). He is what all of us secretly wish we were, but dare not to express. There’s a little part of Travers in each of us, and a little bit of each of us in Travers.
I’m out of cliches here...
Instead of a beer-themed reel, how about a reel-themed beer (or brewery)? This place (on the Jersey shore) brews a lot of the "milkshake"-style IPAs, which I won't drink, but this looks good:
Owner/brewer is a big-game angler, and the brewery décor reflects that.
For a while, I was visiting Ireland for work a couple times a year. On one trip, I was going to be there over a weekend in June/July and made arrangements to fish near Dublin. Back about 20 years ago, Ireland was promoting its fly fishing opportunities and there were always a couple of booths...
We're currently getting our first accumulating snow this season, so it seemed like a good time to pull some wild raspberries (gathered from our backyard) out of the freezer:
Turned them into a cobbler, which is a good way to enjoy a little taste of summer in the dead of winter:
Since today is the first full day of winter.....
Two bass fisherman from down South had been hearing for years how much fun ice fishing was, and decided to head up to Michigan to give it a try. They stopped at a bait shop near a large frozen lake and went in to get some supplies. The clerk was...
Don't know the area at all, except that they get A LOT of snow, even by northeast US standards, due to the lake effect. I'd imagine it would be an even more dramatic difference for someone coming from the wet side of WA.
I really enjoy seeing the pics that are posted in the Puget Sound thread, and thought it would make sense to have a similar thread showcasing the big blue lake that's just a little further west. My wife and I spent a week on the Oregon coast in September (with a brief foray into WA), so I'll...