Under the Alders: The Brown Trout
Brown trout are the real deal, They don’t pretend to be some flashy “New Age” trout, like the…
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Getting Hooked
“Edges, edges, edges. Fifty-eight to sixty-four. Mend!” This was my mantra as a seven-year-old girl. This is what…
California Confluences: Barbara Klutinis
It’s not when you come to fly fishing — it’s how, and why, and what you do with…
IOBO
I swing my duffel bag up onto the ice chest, right there beside the waders and passel of…
California Confluences: MarkWon
People come to fly fishing in all kinds of ways. Some for whom it was no more than…
The Master of Meander: Shared Sins
(Author’s note: In what follows, the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Even “I” is an…
The Art of Angling: Marlo DiPietro
About the Artist Living in the East Bay city of Livermore most of my life and growing up…
The Legacy of Frank Bertaina: “Fish in the Attic”
On the evening of March 3, 2010, at the age of 65, Frank Bertaina passed away from a…
The Master of Meander: Learned Meander, Part V: Kumbaya
People argue that the great boom in fly-fishing publishing — an era that began in the mid-1990s and…
The Art of Angling: Steve Bleasdell
About the Artist I live in Petaluma, California, with my wife, Heather Sullivan, and my two-year-old daughter, Addie…