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The Hunt for Giant Trout: 25 Best Places in the United States to Catch a Trophy By Landon…
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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California Confluences: Brad Jackson
I first met Brad Jackson over the phone. This was back around mid1992, and he had called to…
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century By Kirk Wallace Johnson. Published…
California Confluences: Bill O’Kelly and the SWC-FFI
In popular media, fly fishing has long been depicted as a solitary sport, a common image being a…
California Confluences: David Pellone and the NCCFFI
In popular media, fly fishing has long been depicted as a solitary sport, a common image being a…
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide By Tom Rosenbauer. Published by the Lyons Press, 2017; $24.95, softbound. Here’s a thought…
California Confluences: Terry Eggleston and the Natural Resource Volunteer Program
I first met Terry Eggleston a couple of decades ago, shortly after I had started California Fly Fisher.…
California Confluences: Tom Walsh and the Fisheries Resource Volunteer Corps
Back when the late Richard Alden Bean wrote about Southern California waters for California Fly Fisher, he would…
California Confluences: Peter Pumphrey
I first met Peter Pumphrey around twenty years ago at a fly-fishing conclave hosted in Kings Beach by…
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Modern Steelhead Flies By Rob Russell and Jay Nicholas. Published by Stackpole Books, 2017; $39.95 hardbound. I’d never…