California Confluences: Michael Malekos
While there are times when fly fishing is the most efficient way to catch fish, most fly fishers…
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The Mayflies of Lough Arrow
It was Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois who depended on the kindness of strangers, and that’s how I felt…
Yvon Chouinard: Keeping It Simple
I had plans to fish Piru Creek, in the mountains north of Ventura, with Yvon Chouinard, owner of…
The Art of Angling: Therese Fowler-Bailey
Therese Fowler-Bailey lived in the small town of Porterville, near Sequoia National Park, for the first 40 years…
The Master of Meander: Cross-Fishing
Reports of a hurricane approaching our Puerto Penasco rental condo closed schools, restaurants, and main street shops, blowing…
California Confluences: Leslie Ajari
Fly fishing is changing, and with it, so is the profession of fly-fishing guide. The first guide with…
The Art of Angling: Rebecca Cileo
Rebecca Cileo resides in Happy Valley, outside of Redding. She and her husband, Bill, live on a place…
The Master of Meander: Trolling for Monsters
It will be a soft late-summer night, breezy but warm. Swallows will swoop through a blood-orange sunset. Then,…
In the Summer of Dying Trees
Twenty miles to the west, in the higher ranges beyond the river country, a furious elephant head of…
California Confluences: John Rivera
To say that John Rivera builds fly rods is like saying General Motors builds Cadillacs. Yes, it’s true,…