Catchy Ideas: Boosting Your Belly Boat
Float tubes are a great way to expand your fishing options and get away from the crowds. Light-weight…
Tips & Techniques
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Harmony
It’s late night. Leaning back in my hard wooden chair, I take a moment to stretch and yawn.…
At the Vise: The Muddler Minnow
If you haven’t done this lately, let me remind you what you’re missing. You come out of the…
Personal Watercraft
Canoes, prams, kayaks, float tubes, rafts, pontoon boats, and the like are not new to fly fishing. They…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Competition Lessons
Observant readers will notice a new byline for this column: Robert Ketley, who also writes our “Gearhead” column.…
Gearhead: Excuses
While I don’t have any data to back this up, I’d be willing to bet that 95 percent…
Frankisms
Editor’s note: I received the article that follows, a collection of angling aphorisms, on August 18th. Exactly one…
The Fluke Fly
I got back from a difficult fishing trip to find a package in the mailbox. The postmark confirmed…
Skwala Primer for 2021: Lessons Learned
One of the beacons of light for fly fishers in Northern California during 2020 was the Skwala stonefly…
A Simple Striper Streamer
I have tied many fly patterns over my twenty-plus years in search of stripers in the Sacramento Valley,…