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…
Destinations
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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…
The High Sierra: Do-It-Yourself Style
Over the years, I have gone from being an occasional visitor to the Sierra backcountry, armed with Genny…
The Foraging Angler: Lake Davis, Frenchmans, Portola, Graeagle, and Beckwourth
The immense california Water Project dammed Big Grizzly Creek in 1967, an act that in turn flooded a…
Jenks Lake
Have you ever driven by the entrance to a spot you’ve either never fished or haven’t fished in…
Ernie Gully’s Jurassic Trout
Pyramid Lake is a genuine destination for California’s fly anglers. Located north of Reno in mostly barren desert,…
Finding Shangri-La
Many anglers tend to focus on easy-to-reach waters, and although this is certainly a wise approach if you…