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Jan 20 2013
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Tie One On a Thon 2013

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It’s almost that time of year again, and we’re busy wrangling tiers, sponsors, and cats. This year’s Tie One On A Thon will once again benefit Project Healing Waters, and take place on February 24th, 2013 for 12:00 – 6:00 at SCOF headquarters in downtown Asheville. We’ll have gear giveaways every thirty minutes or so, tying clinics from some of the best guides and tiers in the Southeast and beyond, and as always beer, food, and beer. All this fun for one low price yet to be determined. But if you have a vice and are willing to spend some time twisting feather and fur for a good cause we’ll cut you a deal. Check out the official page on our website every 37 hours from now until February as we’ll be updating it with sponsors and tiers as they come in.

We’ll see all of you there…bring your own TP,

Dave

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Jan 02 2013
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Last Fish Of An Old Year

I am now a weekend warrior. The real world has finally caught up with me, and once it did, it’s been kickin’ my ass ever since. Working 60 hours a week tends to put a crimp on one’s fishing days, but I finally managed to get out and float an oldie but a goody. Much like leftover chinese food, winter egg eaters make you feel bad about yourself in a thoroughly satisfying way. Enjoy some pics, and don’t forget to check out the new issue in a couple of weeks.

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- dave

 

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Sep 09 2012
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HIt It And Quit It, Uncategorized

Catching Up

When you take a blog hiatus, like I have the past couple weeks, coming back is always kind of awkward. Soooo…what’s been goin’ on with y’all. Oh, us?… not much…that rash finally cleared up…yeah that pretty much does it.  I forgot, we did co-sponsor the Carp Cup in Knoxville a couple of weeks ago with our buddies at 3Rivers Angler. It was an eleven on a debauchery scale of 1-10. Brent Golden pretty much dominated the thing taking the team  win and big fish…asshole. Keep an eye out in the Fall issue for the full tournament recap.

We also have been adding staff here at SCOF (no small feat when you can’t pay anybody) and would like to welcome Thomas Harvey, who a lot of you know as one our main fly tying contributors, and also from such Facebook pages as Carolina Fly, Thomas Harvey Loves Puppies, and My Fiance Is Way Too Hot For Me. Thomas will be taking over as SCOF social media director, so if you follow us across the intra-web, you’re bound to run into him sooner or later. Say hi, he likes virtual hugs.

I promise I’ll be back on here more frequently than I have been as of late, but I promise a lot of things.

- Dave

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Jul 31 2012
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Open Ended Appeals To The Masses, Uncategorized

Access Alert

Got a recent email from Dwayne Hopson about disturbing recent events on the Nolichucky. Read on revolutionaries;

“This past week the US Forest Service installed three metal posts which blocks access to the Poplar Boat Launch on the Nolichucky River in North Carolina.You can no longer back a trailer to the river to load/unload a fishing raft. This eliminates the ability to float the river from Huntdale Road/Sams Branch Road to Poplar as well as Poplar to Erwin, TN. This eliminates about 12 miles of river access to fishing rafts. While they blocked the access they also improved it by putting down gravel all the way to the river. Why improve it, then block it????

 Please contact the US Forest Service in Burnsville, NC and ask them to remove the posts.

 Appalachian Ranger District

District Ranger, Tina Tilley

P.O. Box 128

Burnsville, NC 28714

(828) 682-6146

appalachianrd@fs.fed.us

 This decision is detrimental to some people’s businesses and livelihood and to some people’s ability to simply enjoy a great section of river.

 Thanks for your help.

Dwayne Hopson“

Do with this what you will, but I for one am kind of sick of access’ with ballards making it an absolute pain in the ass to float and fish on a lot of rivers around here. I’ve been told Squeak Smith is on it, so you know someone’s already getting an earful.

- Dave

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Jul 30 2012
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Monday Musings, Uncategorized

Monday Grocery List…So To Speak

Took a little blog time off last week, so if y’all will indulge me I’d like to go ahead and clean out the hopper,

  • The summer issue is getting a really good response with over 5000 unique visitors in the first two weeks. We have no one to thank for this but all of you for actually taking the time to read the mag. For those of you that haven’t read it yet…seriously?
  • The 1st Annual 3 Rivers Carp Cup (presented by 3Rivers Angler, SCOF, and a ton of other people) will be upon us before you know it, and it’s guaranteed to be a stinky affair. Click the pic to get the details, but I don’t think Knoxville’s ever gonna be the same after this soiree. 
  • We gotst lidz for yo domez. Back by popular demand is the SCOF Lemon Reel trucker hat in orange/black. We only made a dozen, or so…and who knows when we’ll get off our lazy asses and make more, so order now.
  • …And finally just to inject a little levity into the grocery list, we present the, “Fat Men Swimming on a Blown Out River” gallery enjoy.

- Dave

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Dec 02 2011
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Friday Musings, Uncategorized

Redfish Love In The Time Of Cholera

I have the plague. I was given the plague by my son, who was given the plague by one of the other petri dishes in his class. It’s a vicious cycle really. The only light at the and of my mucas filled tunnel is knowing that, come Sunday I’ll be on the front of a skiff in the low country. We met Capt. Paul Rose at the WNC Fly Fishing Expo and over some late in the evening cocktails (we’re old so think 9:30 -10:00 here) a plan was hatched. We make it a general rule not to turn down invitations on other peoples boats, although there are a couple dingy offers floating around that I will have nothing to do with on princaple alone.  Paul is out of the Charlotte area and guides both redfish out of Charleston and carp on Lake Norman making him the premier utility player of Piedmont based fly fishing guides (there are more then you would think…like six). Between now and then I have hired a shaman (he might just be a homeless guy…I have a pretty high fever) to follow me around driving the evil spirits from my flu riddled body. If that doesn’ work I’m thinking of a full colon cleanse, beacuse one way or  another I’m going fishing.

I have no idea what’s going on right now,

-Dave

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Nov 30 2011
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More Goings Ons

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Taqueria Tuesday have all come and gone. People died in the aisles, other people stepped over that dead person on their way to the video game section, some people were maced, other people were beat, and generally poor behavior was on full display. In order to bring a little sanity back to the holiday shopping season we here at SCOF are happy to announce Independent Regional Online Fly Fishing Flip Page Magazine Wednesday (IROFFFPMW for short). To celebrate, what will ultimately become the most successful online retail marketing campaign yet, we are throwing some new gear your way…at a modest price of course.

The SCOF Mayfly Hoodie just dropped like a baby covered in Crisco….

Also some new stickers to cover your stuff with,

Any orders placed this week will get free shipping and some sticker love on us. Stop by the store and buy something, we don’t want to have to pepper spray any one, but we will.

- Dave

Nov 02 2011
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Open Ended Appeals To The Masses, Uncategorized

The Aftermath

The image above is just hilarious it has no relevance to the post.

It’s funny, you would think after releasing the first issue of our magazine I would be somewhere fishing, sipping on a PBR, surrounded by the Fly Girls from In Living Color, but alas no…I have been dutifully performing shop monkey duties for the past three days. Being a shop monkey does however, put me in front of the computer when customers aren’t in the shop (that’s for you Jeff…my boss), and the first issue has been blowing the f* up. We have been mentioned by a lot of national fly fishing media outlets (thanks Orvisnews and Midcurrent), prominent blogs (thanks to all you guys…you know you are), as well as message boards across the country. My personal favorite has to be the folks that have personally called me…on my phone…to tell me how SCOF has finally filled the void of a great magazine about where we fish. The stats keep racking up and we are adding a ton of subscribers. For all of this, we would like to thank all of you.

This weekend we are going to have a booth right by the casting pool at the Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Expo. We hope everybody will stop by and say hello. We’ll have a some of the contributors from the issue hanging out, Thomas Harvey tying intermittently, and I’ll be there drinking PBR out of a coffee mug into the wee hours of the early afternoon.

If we don’t see you there, thanks again for giving our little magazine a chance, and if you really like it…don’t be afraid to tell everyone you know via all of the intra-web tools available to you.

- dave

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Oct 07 2011
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Cataloochee…Home Of Big Ass Deer

Sometimes you go fishing only to find there’s some really cool shit going on that has absolutely nothing to do with fish.

- Dave

Jul 06 2011
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Southern Fried Bass

We here at SCOF love all things Southern. From Skynyrd to Budweiser bikinis we believe everything is just generally better in the South. This love for all things Southern extends to our finned friends, and today we are happy to bring you our very own Charlie Daniels of the Bass world, the venerable Shoal Bass. I recently got turned onto the species by our new friend Henry Jackson at Flint River Kayak Fishing down in Georgia. According to my Encyclopedia Britannica the Shoal Bass makes his home in  river drainages throughout Florida, Alabama, and Georgia (much like Charlie Daniels except switch out river drainages for dive bars), and wasn’t even recognized as a separate species of Bass till 1999 being lumped in with Red Eye Bass, till then, once again proving scientific biases towards the South…which explains my C- in high school chemistry. At the present I have yet to shake hands with my new friend the Shoal Bass, but I plan on turning my electronic correspondence into a face to face meeting very soon.

- Dave

 

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