The Art of Angling: Rodney Cloutier
To me, fly fishing isn’t about the fish, it’s about the fly. Imitating beating wings on water, stillborns…
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The Master of Meander: If a Body, Meet a Body, On the River Why
Author’s note: what began as a melancholy Meander became something else in the writing: more important, urgent, and…
California Confluences: Steven Bird
Many birds fly south in the winter, and that includes Steven Bird, an author (see “Lonesome Coast” in…
The Art of Angling: John Rickard
About the Artist It seems clichéd to write that every artist has a muse, but perhaps it’s true.…
The Master of Meander: Kaleidoscope
Early this month, Mike, Rick, and I brought 117 years of smarts about fly fishing for bass to…
California Confluences: Lisa Cutter
If you’ve read pretty much anything that Ralph Cutter has written in this magazine, or anywhere else, for…
Richard Alden Bean, 1941–2014
Richard Alden Bean, 1941–2014, a contributing editor to California Fly Fisher and its warmwater columnist, passed away in…
Why the Kid Went Fishing
For the kid, the only constant and reliable aspect of life was that of feeling different. This, and…
The Art of Angling: John Sherman
I started fishing at the very early age of 3 on a farm pond in North Carolina, far…
The Master of Meander: Of Hope, Luck, and Occam’s Dull Razor
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,”…
