Fly Fish Chick

flyfishchick.com

greasy stick-to-your-ribs tales from one southern woman who thinks she's got it all licked. Texas Heat * Southern Soul * Big Sky Love.

Written by

Is it me or does this pasta look a lot like fly line? While I typically race in a million different directions, I am literally preparing to head in two very opposite directions (both geographically...

May 15, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

And Tomorrow Starts The Same Old Thing Again

When I was a kid my parents used to host their own Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic “Satellite” parties in our backyard in Dallas. They were fairly epic. To resurrect that tradition I thought it...

May 1, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Which Came First, The Cake or The Egg?

In this case, it was the egg. As in The Big Green Egg Eggfest. Cake would come later in the weekend. You may not know that the Professor is quite the grill master. Last year for his 50th birthday...

Apr 29, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

A Matter of Public Record

Yesterday we spent spent a beautiful spring day in Mobile Alabama trying to acquire/install a turntable so we could listen to our growing vintage vinyl collection. I will spare you the laborious...

Apr 15, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

Fly Fish Chick

Not Pulling a New Coke On You

This blog has always been about storytelling…fishing stories, tales of family & friends, travel, food music, life in Austin, life in Alabama. Lately I have been stretched so thin I haven’t had a...

Apr 13, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

Fly Fish Chick

Tex Smith and The Haymakers

Last night I ventured out to do some hard hitting honky-tonk research for the book. I decided I needed to get out of my Old South Austin music scene (as fabulous as it is) and plug in to some...

Mar 27, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Wash or Burn?

Be very very glad this is not a scratch and sniff blog. I am mentally, physically and emotionally crippled after three FANTASTIC days camping in Live Oak, FL at Springfest music festival. Some of...

Mar 25, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Slack Tide

In case I haven’t bumped into you recently let me go ahead and tell you what I’ve been telling everyone I encounter lately, “Did you know that I caught my first tarpon? Want to see a picture of my...

Mar 18, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Austin Is As Austin Does

After a quick dinner at the ever-delicious Woodland on hoppin’ South Congress, we cruised across the street to the greatest live music venue in all of history, The Continental Club. Venerable...

Feb 25, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Sorry For The Poddy Rocking

Whew! I made it through this podcast interview with Trout Unlimited without developing a case of Tourette’s and accidentally blurting out an obscenity or random thought about how french fries are...

Feb 12, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Lower Broad Strokes

Little Chick and I traveled to Nashville this weekend to visit my parents and see some of my high school friends — not to mention do some hard-hitting research for my honky tonk book project. One...

Feb 4, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Lord of the Rings

Last Labor Day weekend we were in Frontier Anglers in Dillon MT chatting it up with the owner, our good friend Tim Tollett. I don’t know how I could have missed this over the past few years but for...

Jan 29, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Johnny Fisher Got Me Hooked On Crackle

When the Professor and I got married two+ years ago I had the redhot idea of redecorating the guest room in Alabama by framing vintage record covers and hanging them on the wall. (Admittedly...

Jan 21, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Honky Tonk High Tea

The first time I heard old school, classic honky tonk music here in Alabama was in a most unlikely spot: The Country Club of Mobile. It was February 2009 and some gracious friends threw an...

Jan 17, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Yall Come

Have you ever heard of Arlie Duff? He was a middle school teacher and songwriter from Texas, prominent in the 1950s, and garnered the nickname “The Singing School Teacher.” He only had one hit song...

Jan 7, 2013 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Big Love.

My friend Joe Willauer, who is a board member of the Big Hole Watershed, asked if I would talk a little about the organization’s efforts and asked me to share exactly why I love the Big Hole River....

Dec 14, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Unedited

Some people I respect have counseled me not to write this post. Their advice is sound, so I’ve kept my mouth shut as long as possible. I’ve edited myself despite my on-going frustration. Of course...

Dec 12, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

I Wonder If This Is Really Even Appropriate

I’m in a massive time crunch before I leave town in the morning so I have been racking my brain with what to post on my way out the door. Let’s see, what’s been happening lately? Hmm…I wonder, I...

Nov 18, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

My Pupusa Brings All The Boys To the Yard

Turns out my favorite Belizean food is traditional Salvadorian food. You see, I have recently discovered the magic of The Pupusa. It took me a while to conquer the pronunciation but the...

Nov 16, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

And There Were Bonefish Too

Needless to say I am completely obsessed with the horrible murder that happened right in San Pedro when we were in Belize last weekend. And the bizarro actions of internet mogul John McAfee...

Nov 14, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Megalops Megafun

There’s really no graceful way to ease into this announcement so I will just shout it out: I CAUGHT MY FIRST TARPON! Like all the way caught for real. To the net. You may have heard some screaming...

Nov 12, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Tastes Like Chicken

I don’t know what it says about me that I gravitate toward places that have chicken pooping competitions. Tomorrow the Professor and I head down to Belize for a little romance & little bonefishing....

Nov 5, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

I Heart Alabama Music. (State, not Band.)

The Southern Coterie website recently posted about a new-to-me music duo called The Secret Sisters, a lovely harmonizing pair that hail from Alabama. Which made me think about all the good music...

Nov 2, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Meanwhile, A Few Parishes Away…

Nothing screams “Gone Fishing in South Louisiana!” quite like a Moonpie Hat and camouflage. Not to mention a big ole redfish in your hands. And you make it all look good, baby! Hubba hubba. While I...

Oct 31, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Like A Virgin But Not Quite

Last weekend was hardly the first New Orleans rodeo for this group of 40-something moms, not by a long shot. Some in our group are nawlins born and bred, some live there now, others have a vacation...

Oct 29, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

Don’t feel sorry for me when I tell you that we won’t be making our fall trip out to Montana this year. As blue as I am about it, I’d feel guilty if I stirred your pity for me, since the reason we...

Oct 25, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

I’m Actually Better Looking At The Horseshoe Lounge

Flyfishing is my only real hobby simply because I can’t figure out how to claim honkytonking as an actual hobby. Cause then I’d have two. I love old honkytonk music, and I mean I L-O-V-E love it....

Oct 21, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Oh Yeah, We’re Realer Than The Easter Bunny. Word.

Have you ever seen this hilarious Diet Dr. Pepper commercial with the “I Exist!” support group that includes Santa, Big Foot, the Easter Bunny, a Leprechaun, and the Tooth Fairy? Well, clearly they...

Oct 18, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

I Think Ikat, I Think Ikat

When I married the Professor we decided, for sanity’s sake, to keep our respective homes in Austin and Mobile and move into each other’s existing houses instead of muddling through the headache of...

Oct 17, 2012 Like

Fly Fish Chick

Welcome to Bloglovin'

Follow your favorite blogs and discover new ones. Learn more »

Select country

Fly Fish Chick

Written by

Christine Johnston Warren

Spaghetti Western

And Tomorrow Starts The Same Old Thing Again

Which Came First, The Cake or The Egg?

A Matter of Public Record

Not Pulling a New Coke On You

Tex Smith and The Haymakers

Wash or Burn?

Slack Tide

Austin Is As Austin Does

Sorry For The Poddy Rocking

Lower Broad Strokes

Lord of the Rings

Johnny Fisher Got Me Hooked On Crackle

Honky Tonk High Tea

Yall Come

Big Love.

Unedited

I Wonder If This Is Really Even Appropriate

My Pupusa Brings All The Boys To the Yard

And There Were Bonefish Too

Megalops Megafun

Tastes Like Chicken

I Heart Alabama Music. (State, not Band.)

Meanwhile, A Few Parishes Away…

Like A Virgin But Not Quite

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

I’m Actually Better Looking At The Horseshoe Lounge

Oh Yeah, We’re Realer Than The Easter Bunny. Word.

I Think Ikat, I Think Ikat

Mississippi Redfish Blues

Lloyd

Mick Berry

Christine Johnston Warren

+ 5 more followers

Oh hey, what's up? corrinrenee.com

The Londoner thelondoner.me

Camille Styles camillestyles.com

Carrie Loves carrieloves.com

The Afternoon Off theafternoonoff.com

Mr. Kate mrkate.com

Sign up to follow Fly Fish Chick

Select your language