The Kit Lake Solace is a flyfishing report for central Florida, in the spirit of Mark Twain, Jimmy Buffett and Garrison Keillor

What is fly fishing? Charles and Cecil start a Beautiful Addiction.

Dropper Rigs Double Up Foots the Bill Sometimes anglers want a little more out of each cast. We might want to control the depth our fly...

NOVEMBER 2022 It was a month of settling down on Kit Lake, my home water in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. Bright...

OCTOBER 2022 It was a month of seismic change on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. Record storms and...

SEPTEMBER 2022 It was a flipflopped month on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. For a while, the...

August 2022 It was a head spinning month on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. Early in the month, we...

Review of the book, All The Best

It was a month of turnaround on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. When he returned to the backdoor,...

June 2022 It was a month of leisure and work on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida's largemouth bass country. Bosses needed help...

Fish will attack a fly that sinks quickly when we stop stripping it in. And in happy times, they’ll blast throthe surface to grab a...

Bass fishing in April!

It was a month of casual work on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. I.T. departments blocked computer...

It was a month of multiple personalities on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. Like driving south to...

By: Aaron Reed Reviewed by: Chris O’Byrne Part of an angler’s metamorphosis from hobbyist to addict is a tendency to look over the...

This was a month of calm experimentation on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. We were pulled in one...

Charles and Cecil teach fly fishing

This was a month of change in the medium term on Kit Lake, my home water, in central Florida’s largemouth bass country. Managers changed...

‘Twas the day before Christmas and all ‘cross the pond the bass were hittin’ on top with jaws yawned. The stockings were hung in the boat...

Christmas 2021 This year we’ve confirmed the value of outside, and we’ve re-learned the value of together. Now, we want to pass on those...