At the Vise: Squid Me
The first time I went kayak fishing in the ocean, I found myself thinking, Boy, this is pretty…
Scott Sadil is the author of six books, both fiction and nonfiction, that embrace the sport of fly fishing. For the past thirty years his short stories, essays, and feature articles have appeared in all of the important fly fishing magazines. He’s penned the “At the Vise” column here at California Fly Fisher for over a dozen years, and he is also currently the angling editor at Gray’s Sporting Journal and a columnist for Fly Tyer magazine.
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At the Vise: TheTrilobite
I’ve been fishing with Peter Syka, my latest guest at The Roost, for over 40 years. Nobody needs…
At the Vise: Steven Bird’s Bunny BWO Emerger
I was surprised to learn that Steven Bird, a recent visitor to The Roost, spent his seminal years…
At the Vise: The Park’s Special
Steelhead season arrives slowly at The Roost. Nobody really needs any more steelhead flies — our boxes show…
At the Vise – Once More, with Feeling: The IOBO Humpy
I send an e-mail to my friend Fran Noel, the artist and inveterate angler, asking if he might…
At the Vise: Kaylee’s Stone, Plus or Minus
Scott Sadil, our new columnist for “At the Vise,” is no stranger to readers of this magazine or…
Black and Blue
This fall, I spent a weekend at a literary event in eastern Oregon, a gathering of writers and…
Angling Nowhere
You know the deal. Son and his wife can’t get it straight. Their own sons, angels both of…
Bullador
Shane Chung imagines it’s all been caught on film. Somewhere in footage shot by security cameras peering into…
Get Lucky
I don’t get the job. It feels like an insult, a renouncement, a dismissal of the One Big…