The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Float-n-Fly
A few issues back, I wrote about crappie fishing using cane poles, bobbers, and minnows hooked at the…
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The Foraging Angler: On the Road: Clear Lake and the Mendocino Coast
Restaurants come and go, usually for obvious reasons. It may be a bad location, service or sanitation issues,…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Terrestrials
I recently delivered a one-hour stillwater presentation as part of a two-day Fly-Fishing 101 class put on by…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: What’s Complicating Simplifying Your Fly Boxes
In “The Fly Box, Part 2,” in the September/October 2018 issue of California Fly Fisher, Michael Checchio states…
The Foraging Angler: Dawgs and Other Sausages
Often we overlook simple and easy preparations when putting together backyard cooking and camp menus. A memorable hotdog…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Windows of Opportunity
I was enjoying new faces at a bed-and-breakfast happy hour in Plymouth, California, home of the Amador County…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Fishing the Rise
In 1979, I was privileged to travel to England in a pilgrimage to Hampshire’s chalk stream country and…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Largemouth Bass
Largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, are native to the eastern half of the United States, southern Quebec and Ontario,…
The Foraging Angler: Dining Options at Colfax and Dutch Flat
Interstate 80 is the main gateway to the north-central Sierra, to northern Nevada, and to Lake Tahoe. Angling…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Bass Bugs
Trout and Atlantic salmon flies evolved in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, but tying and crafting fly-rod bass…