So what’s this all about?
The Royal Coachmen is about the gathering.
At its heart, The Royal Coachmen is a culinary series about cooking and bringing family, friends, and fly fishing together.
If you really want us to wax poetic, we can do that, too.
As passengers, they bring us together. The Royal Coachmen. To the long tables on the banks of fabled waters. Over fires. Through conversation. On mountain tops and open meadows. Where tides come and go. Among the firs, the alders, and the red maples overhead. In ancient woodlands and faraway lodges. Toward these wild places, the coachmen transport us. As life-long friends and new acquaintances. Explorers and wallflowers These are fathers and daughters. Mothers and sons. Partners. Opportunities. Serendipities. They make meals our memory. Our present. A taut line connecting fur and feathers to sipping mouths. Of wild salmon, steelhead and trout. Cast among the convivial souls who love them. To convey passage among people and places. Come with us.
We are THE ROYAL COACHMEN. We request your company.
Materials tied to a hook.
In part, it’s where our name derives. From a collection of materials largely found in nature. From peacock, pheasant, deer hair, or duck. Gathered around a simple hook with floss and tinsel. It’s nearly infinite in its use — generally tied as a dry fly, but modified as conditions and geography require. It can be a nymph, an emerging wet fly, or even a streamer. It can drive mountain trout crazy and even saltwater species have been known to hit it with wild abandon. It’s almost universal in its appeal. A classic. A natural beauty. A feast for the senses.
I have to say it. Where these guys are is really where I want to be.”
Eric Bartle — Chef, forager, fisher. THE WILDERNESS HUNTER