This Way, This Good
By Richard Anderson Hard, hot light by ten a.m., windows ricocheting sun, concrete incandescent, even blacktop white. No…
Richard began fishing in third grade, after his family moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to a small town in the Sierra Nevada. He has fished extensively around the West, and over time his avocation became vocation when, in 1992, he launched California Fly Fisher magazine.
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This is the End (Maybe? Certainly?)
The issue of California Fly Fisher that you now hold in your hands is its last. There are…
Letters
A Useful Art “The Art of Mending” by Mike Pease is awesome (July/August 2023). I have often thought…
The Paper Hatch
The Orvis Guide to Finding TroutBy Tom Rosenbauer. Published by Lyons Press; $34.95 softbound. “Reading water” — figuring…
The Paper Hatch: California Fly-Fishing Lit
I’m probably like many fly fishers in that back when I was getting into the sport, I bought…
Surfperch Safari
The California surf remains an unknown frontier for most fly fishers, although a number of pioneers have been…
The Paper Hatch: Favorite Flies for…
Favorite Flies for… A series from Stackpole Books by multiple authors, 2020–2022 (so far); $24.95 hardbound. Nowadays, a…
Fishing Big Bear Lake: Another Perspective
I was surprised when Tom Martens opened his adjacent article on Big Bear Lake with the observation that…
The Paper Hatch
The Orvis Guide to Hatch Strategies By Tom Rosenbauer. Published by Lyons Press, 2022; $34.95 softbound. If it’s…
The Foraging Angler: Where to Dine When Fishing Nevada’s Pyramid Lake
If you’re fishing Pyramid Lake and would like dinner afterward, something more than whatever you might prepare if…