http://thereellife.com/ Blog Feeds From Thereellife.com en-us Sat, 4 Feb 2012 06:56:48 +0000 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 06:56:48 +0000 hourly 1 UCMS http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1864 Www.thereellife.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:31:32 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1864 truchacabra.wordpress.com/ Check out our blog's facelift. Pike on the Rio and Corkins on vid. http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1527 Www.thereellife.com Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:16:00 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1527 It's become way too plain that New Mexico is in dire need of a serious dump of snow. And though I've been told we're to expect a nice wet March, here we are in the middle of the month, and we've gotten only enough snow to powder a Denny's waffle. Now droughts can be short and they can be long;... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1502 Www.thereellife.com Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:53:58 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1502 New Mexico House of Representatives Bill 206 will be before the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Monday morning, March 7, at 8:30. If you can't be there (Room 315 I think, in the Roundhouse) to make your voice heard, I urge you to email YOUR representatives on the Committee and... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1461 Www.thereellife.com Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:11:33 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1461 So I don't waste a bunch of words rationalizing why I'm going to tell you about some places and not cold, hard fishing gear, I'll just say this is a product review. And the product is Abiquiu, a private lease of ours actually that has a pond on it that, lately, is actually more fun to fish than... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1396 Www.thereellife.com Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:19:27 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1396 This is only part of it, a small part. In this modern age of do it yourself everything, one of the first professions to pass into antiquity was arguably that of the travel agent. Why would I waste time on a phone call or drop into someone's physical location to book a trip... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1298 Www.thereellife.com Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:14:38 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1298 This story opens with the main character, Marshall Tate, scanning his new creation, a spring creek that Marshall built by digging out a flow of groundwater from a piece of land he's babysitting for his rich and supposedly overbearing father. A former awesome fishing guide, Marshall... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1278 Www.thereellife.com Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:50:02 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1278 Time again for wondering what in our store I would want to find under the tree this year. It's too much to put down everything I would want - and if I had it all, so much of my daydreaming time would have to be put to better use - so I'll just note several items that I know will make the giver the... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1232 Www.thereellife.com Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:54:42 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1232 It's the annual argument, should we fish for brown trout while they are in the throes of reproductive passion? Some say we should (not out of necessity but fun), for when else are gorgeous monster browns so vulnerable to being caught, or for that matter, even seen outside of their caves? ... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1127 Www.thereellife.com Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:43:50 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1127 Legend tells of a legendary warrior, whose Kung Fu skills were the stuff of legend. He traveled the land in search of worthy foes. - Kung Fu Panda You have a four year old boy, you watch a lot of movies over and over again. This one is my son Gus' current favorite, and it's gotten him so... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1126 Www.thereellife.com Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:13:33 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1126 Bays. Rainbow. Nest. Now. Midges. Eagle. Big. Unscramble. http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1115 Www.thereellife.com Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:59:52 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1115 Earlier this week, a dude came in and told one of our customers that he, "caught a german brown like about this big." The dude, pantomiming a fly cast as he described the event, was using an elk hair caddis with a little green dubbing on the butt. The fly, he said, had to have that dubbing or the... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1042 Www.thereellife.com Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:02:15 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1042 I recently got back from Alaska, where I spent a blissful six days fishing for my favorite fish in the world. I don't have the space, time, or writing skills to express why native rainbows send me over the edge, so I won't even try. Suffice it to say that my fisherman's heaven lies somewhere... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1040 Www.thereellife.com Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:12:15 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/1040 A friend of mine recently told me that our shop fishing report could stand a little standardization. In other words, he said, in order to qualify as super fishing, a waterway should be giving up x numbers of fish per day with an x percentage of fish being over a length of x (corrected for the... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/994 Www.thereellife.com Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:44:15 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/994 Now I'm aware that simply referring to someone as a poser pretty much makes me one, for in doing so, I am holier than holier than thou. I'll just admit my hypocrisy now, so I can at least act (pose?) like I'm making no claims. At some point in the past, this very fun and fulfilling sport of... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/993 Www.thereellife.com Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:28:16 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/993 The other day, I saw a rattlesnake. I was so close I could see the greens of its eyes. I almost threw up. Hell, I'm almost throwing up now just thinking about it. Summer means snakes if your below 8,000 feet, though I wouldn't be surprised to see one up that high. It means black widows in... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/970 Www.thereellife.com Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:26:52 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/970 Like almost any fisherkid, I got my start with bait and spinners. My home creeks were the Rio Chiquito and Rio Grande del Rancho where, by mutual agreement with my grandmother, I was to spend most of my time on visits to her house so as to stay out of her hair. So through most summer weekends... http://thereellife.com/blog/view/955 Www.thereellife.com Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:01:48 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/955 Check out this carp fly fishing site. If this doesn't get your blood pressure up I don't know what will. Great carp fishing opportunities all around us here in Santa Fe. www.flyfishforcarp.com/ http://thereellife.com/blog/view/954 Www.thereellife.com Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:34:55 +0000 http://thereellife.com/blog/view/954 The smallmouth bass fishing has been off the hook recently at Abiquiu Lake. Reel Life guide, Ed Miller, was there last weekend with one of our regular customers. They caught well over twenty fish apiece, mainly on poppers and surface patterns. Another customer was recently there and nailed them...