“Sometimes I caught fish – sometimes I didn’t. …….I lived merrily, mindlessly, uncomfortably on the fringe where fishing bleeds into madness.” – Nick Lyons, The Intense Fly Fisherman There was a time in my youth when I chased fish with all the passion I had within me – with all the force and vigor and [...]
About Owl
Owl Jones is an evil mastermind whose plans for "Fly Fishing World Domination" were short-lived when he realized that dominating the entire fly fishing world would take real work. So, he settled for Single Website Domination and started up OwlJones.com back in 2009. He lives in North Georgia and frequently haunts the waters of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, pretending to catch fish.Author Archive | Owl
The One that Got Away
What would fishing be without “the one that got away?” Much better! I hear you – but there’s something good about losing a nice fish, too. Actually, there are a few good things about losing the big one, right? For starters, we know he’s still in there. Somewhere in that big bend or deep cove, [...]
Hypertension Hole
Maybe it’s just me, but I have this problem with a certain fishin’ hole that has it in for me. It’s just a little run, no different from a thousand other little runs I’ve fished. One low-hanging tree limb complicates the cast a little, but not too much – and the fish that live there [...]
On Friendship and Fishing
It’s been said that each day spent fishing is not deducted from a man’s life. I don’t know who first uttered those words, but I’d like to thank him. I might even buy him a beer, because that fellow, whoever he was, at least makes us all feel a little better about leaving the wife [...]
One Beautiful Day
There’s something special about Spring. It’s so special in fact, that I frequently capitalize the word out of sheer joy. Dogwood trees in bloom, bass falling in love, and carpenter bees trying to duke it out for who knows what. On a small dirt path that was once a road for jeeps and the like, [...]
Fine Tune Your Fly Fishing
There was a time when I’d throw nothing more than a wader bag, a couple of rods, a hat and some peanut butter into the back seat and head for the trout streams. There was never any research or planning – not in my pre-trip rituals or in the actual fishing. I’d walk the river, [...]
Goodbye Winter, Hello Bass
For nearly 20 years I’ve chased the bass of Marben Farms. Of course, almost no one calls it that anymore, since the State of Georgia purchased the land 21 or 22 years ago. But at one time, one family owned everything for miles around. The Marben family named each pond – Dairy, Stump, Otter – [...]
Hot Summer Trout
It’s 7 a.m. on a foggy Blue Ridge Morning “I’ve got him! Ohhhhhh, man…don’t go into that log….come on, baby….come on….hold tippet! Hold!” It was fourteen inches of angry brown trout in two feet of clear, cold creek. The thing wasn’t giving up without a fight, even though Tommy was putting on the pressure as [...]
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