About TVangler

Welcome to our site! We're a group of outdoor enthusiasts currently residing in North Alabama in the Tennessee Valley. We write about fly fishing and just about any other type of fishing you might be interested in. We also occasionally write about photography, blogging, conservation, backpacking, hiking and whatever random stuff happens to be on our minds. Hope you enjoy!

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Fly Fishing Resolutions – 2011 Edition

Resolutions. Eh, I don’t know why I even bother. It’s not like I ever actually accomplish them. But I make them every year nonetheless. It just feels so, well, lazy to not make any sort of resolution at all. The last several years I’ve made vague resolutions like “I will fly fish more this [...]

Tenkara

One of my many goals for the year is to simplify my hobbies. For fly fishing that means decreasing my involvement in the various extracurricular “stuff” that fly fishers tend to get into: rod-building, tying flies, collecting classic gear, repairing bamboo rods, etc. So, it might seem contradictory that I’d be delving into yet [...]

Monday Links: Catching Up and Cutting Back

For the last half of 2010, I was pretty burned out, even on the things I loved. I got in this rut of coming home from work and crashing on the sofa in front of the television. It took me a few months, but I finally managed to pull myself out of that. One [...]

Hazel Creek

A pretty stretch of Hazel Creek.

In At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman John Gierach says, “…the day you actually begin to wonder why you do this is the day you might as well sell your tackle and buy a bigger TV.” As I shivered under the fifth bridge on Hazel Creek [...]

Finally Gearing Up for Spring

Over the last month or so I’ve been gearing up for what I hope to be a big spring of fishing. In late April we’re tackling a 3 night Smokies backpacking trip. In preparation for that, I’ve dusted off the backpacking gear. I bought some new equipment over the winter in the hopes of [...]