I hope everyone had as nice a Thanksgiving Day as I did.
Among my many blessings are all of you who read and follow currentseams. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment on the site. Thanks to those of you who travel to see me speak. And thanks to those of you who have taken a class with me or let me be your guide. I truly appreciate it.
And of course, thanks for being fortunate enough to catch and release amazing fish like this.
The winner of the 200th Follower drawing is Paul Gross. Congratulations, Paul! You’ve got email. Please respond so I can send out your flies.
Thanks to everyone for entering, and thanks even more for following currentseams.
Busy busy busy around these parts. (Although last night while you were sleeping, I was slogging around the ocean in search of a 30-pound striper. She never came out to play, but I know where she hangs out. Finally got to bed at 3am. Dragging today.)
The 200 followers contest: I have not done the drawing yet. What I really wanted to say was thanks to everyone who took the time to offer comments and suggestions. It is truly gratifying to hear from so many of you, and to be able to put some words and thoughts to names.
I am currently at work on a steelhead article for American Angler. It should be out in a couple months.
Speaking of articles, I am going to try to post some of the older ones I’ve written on the site soon. Yeah, I know, you’ve heard that before. No, but I am. Really.
I must have a great face for radio. Why else would John Kovach be gracious enough to invite me back on his Yankee Fisherman show on HAN Radio? We covered lots of topics: this summer on the Farmington, the effects flows have on fishing, fishing wets as dries, long leaders, setting the hook, and just what the Dog Days really means.
Thanks again to John and his team for having me. Here’s the link to the show:
To all who follow Currentseams:
Easier is better. Simpler is better. So, going forward, the url for this site will be currentseams.com. New name. But same content, same personnel.
It may take a few hours for the change to manifest. I’m assuming that if you signed up for email alerts, you’ll continue to get them. If not, you’ll know where to find me.
As always, thank you for following currentseams, thanks for reading, and thanks for participating in this wonderful sport.
Steve Culton
I like to say that I go fishing more than any other man who is truly in love with his wife. I’m incredibly lucky to be married to someone who understands the depth of my passion, and goes out of her way to enable me enjoy it. Some of us fish to escape; I’m lucky enough to say that my favorite part of fishing is coming home to my wife.
Happy Anniversary, my love.
Me and the Missus. I clean up OK. She’s always beautiful.
The press release might read “Catch Farmington River guide and outdoor writer Steve Culton on this week’s Yankee Fisherman program on HAN Radio. Steve talks about all things wet fly fishing, covering topics from wet fly styles to presentation.”
Also appearing on the show is my friend Steve Zakur from CVTU. Thanks so much to host John Kovach and HAN Radio for having me on. As its title suggests, Yankee Fisherman focuses on the ample fishing opportunities found in the Connecticut area.
Here’s the link to the show: or http://www.hanradio.com/category/news/yankee-fisherman/
Episode 3.
My keyboard has been getting a workout this winter. Lots of articles in the pipeline right now that will be appearing in 2014. Among them:
Matching the Hatch with Wet Flies (American Angler)
Downstream Wets in Small Brooks, Building a Wet Fly Team, Salmon fishing for Stripers (Mid Atlantic Fly Fishing guide)
Bugs Department and Farmington River Survivor Strain (The Drake)
A story/essay on a year-long striper adventure (FlyFish Journal)
Not to mention the regular, wonderful (it doesn’t suck, does it?) content featured here on Currentseams.
Anyone else bloody tired of winter? Stand by. Spring is coming.
Speaking of soon-to-be regular (I hope) content, I just completed my first successful tying test video last night. I’m hoping to do a bunch of these this year. Stay tuned for the first one, coming soon.
January 31 marked the first anniversary of this website. WordPress sent me a little reminder valentine, which is nice because it had completely slipped my mind.
I was unsure what to expect when I started currentseams. People had been suggesting to me that I start a blog, but I hated that word. Blog, to me, sounded like some affected entity that had the massive potential to come off like, “Dear diary…today I went fishing!” Not for this man. I knew I needed a website for my guiding, fly tying, writing, and speaking business; I was blowing it off because there was no way I was going to put a out sucky product. Finally, I ended up at WordPress, found a format I liked, and waded in.
And here we are, 112 (Really? Wow!) followers later. I want to say thank you to all of you. I appreciate your readership.
Looking to the present and future: in addition to the more of the same high-quality content, I have some new ideas for currentseams. One of those is that I am starting to add outside links to other sites. These will be fly fishing industry-related, anything from shops to magazines to other blogs. I’m starting with UpCountry Sportfishing and Great Feathers. UpCountry is the primary shop I teach out of, and your single source for all things Farmington River. Great Feathers has a comprehensive selection of wet fly tying materials, including some harder-to-find hooks. You can find the links in the right hand column of currentseams.
The second bit of news is that I am close to (finally!) doing a some tying videos. I think the wait will be worth it.
That’s all for now. Thanks again for reading.
P.S. When I ran the 100th Follower contest, I really enjoyed hearing from so many of you. Feel free to leave a comment (especially some of the new folks). I read them all.
I’m way happier about the one-year anniversary of currenseams than I look here. Really. Honest.
Will, you won the 100th follower contest. I need your address so I can send you the flies. 🙂
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