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…
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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Useful Tools for the Aging Angler
“What a drag it is getting old,” sang Mick Jagger, when he was a mere 23 years of…
The Foraging Angler: Truckee Brewpubs
One of the casualties from Covid in California is our restaurant and bar sector. Doors were closed during…
The Foraging Angler: Packing a Sandwich
Many of us carry snacks when we’re fishing, but sometimes we’ll be away from our vehicle (and cooler)…
The Good Fight: New Trout Regs Up for Review
The State of California is now entering the final phase of its process to bring a logical, coherent…
The Foraging Angler: Cooking in Camp in the Backyard
These days, we’re all foraging anglers, sometimes foraging after others who are not anglers have gotten there first.…
The Paper Hatch
Sight Fishing for Trout, second edition By Landon Mayer. Published by Stackpole Books, 2019; $29.95 softbound. When no…
The Peaches and Cream Jig Fly / Euro Nymph
Doug Ouellette, a fly-fishing guide out of Reno, Nevada, was an early adopter of the extralong rods and…
The Frenchie
The story, as I understand it, is that awhile back, an unknown Frenchman won the world fly-fishing championship…
The Paper Hatch
Tactical Fly Fishing: Lessons Learned from Competition for All Anglers By Devin Olsen. Published by Stackpole Books, 2019.…