Fly Fishing in a Ruined Landscape
The name of the creek is irrelevant. What’s important is that it rises from springs high up a…
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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The Foraging Angler: Up I-5: Dining in the Northern Sacramento Valley
In my younger years, it was all about the fish — and it still is. But getting older…
The Foraging Angler: Bears in Camp
I doubt that there is a hiker or other lover of the wilderness in the West who hasn’t…
The Paper Hatch
Switch Rod Casting Techniques DVD by Jeff Putnam’s Fly Fishing Schools, 2011; $34.95, 93 minutes. Jeff Putnam has…
The Foraging Angler: Mendonoma
“Mendonoma” is a coined word that refers to the northern Sonoma and southern Mendocino coastal areas. A week-long…
The Foraging Angler: Nevada County’s Wine Trail
I left the Bay Area and immigrated to Nevada County more than six years ago. The move was…
The Paper Hatch
Trout Lessons: Freewheeling Tactics and Alternative Techniques for the Difficult Days By Ed Engle. Published by Stackpole Books,…
Go-To Flies
Fly fishing is a game of confidence. That’s not the same thing as a confidence game, although there…
The Paper Hatch
The Classic Dry Fly Box By Mike Valla. Published by The Whitefish Press, 2010; $24.94, softbound. What makes…
The Paper Hatch
Crowley Lake University Six-DVD set by Kent Rianda, 2008-2010; $79.95. Available online at thetroutfitter.com. Lake Crowley (known colloquially…