Three Simple Tips to Improve Your Fishing
Three common mistakes that hurt people’s prospects before their first cast
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Winter Dry-Fly Fishing
It’s cold. It’s wet — a mixed blessing and curse for fly fishers some years, with either too…
Four Creeks: Four Lessons
I watch or listen to a lot of baseball games. At some point every season every season, the…
The Popsicle
Every steelhead that comes to hand is a memorable gift from the river. I still smile when I…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Terrestrials
I recently delivered a one-hour stillwater presentation as part of a two-day Fly-Fishing 101 class put on by…
At the Vise: My Mullet
We had seen the mullet when we first walked up the beach as we were stalking a fringe…
Muff the Cast?
Staying low, not letting our shadow touch the water, careful not to rattle the stones underfoot, we slink…
At the Vise: Badger Shrimp
One of the grave misconceptions shared by many inexperienced or misled fly fishers is that the best flies…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: What’s Complicating Simplifying Your Fly Boxes
In “The Fly Box, Part 2,” in the September/October 2018 issue of California Fly Fisher, Michael Checchio states…
Rigging Like a Guide Part 2
Many fly fishers are searching for information on how to improve their own angling skills and knowledge, but…