The June Lake Loop
I have always liked the idea of picking a central location that’s surrounded by multiple fishing options and…
Destinations
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The Foraging Angler: Dining in Redding
Redding is the northernmost community with any sizable population along Interstate 5 in California, and it serves as…
A SoCal Winter Option: Laguna Niguel Lake
sort of scheduling screwup, the fish had been stocked the day before the weekend arrived. (Or that same…
Winter Fly Fishing on the Upper Sacramento
I remember years when the last day of trout season — November 15 — was a real downer.…
The Foraging Angler – Fried Fish and Abalone Fritters: Fishing and Eating along the Sonoma Coast
Russell Chatham’s memoir in the October 2012 issue of California Fly Fisher about his youthful adventures in coastal…
Fishing the “New” Pit River
What Is the Wading Like Now? Anglers who don’t like the Pit by and large don’t like it…
The Creeks of Tioga Pass
Long known as the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, Highway 120 (the Tioga Pass Highway) also leads…
The Foraging Angler: Foraging in Yreka after Steelheading on the Klamath
I recently returned from an eighteen-hundred-mile, week-long steelhead fly-fishing trip to the fabled Clearwater, Snake, and Grande Ronde…
The Middle 90
In a Central San Joaquin Valley fly shop in the heart of not-steelhead territory, there is a shadowbox…
Trout Town: Bishop
You know you’re in a bona fide trout town when there’s a fly-rod-and-trout pattern in the carpet of…