The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Buying, Tying, and Fishing Lifelike Flies
I prowl fly shops and peruse fly-fishing catalogs obsessively. My wife seems to accept the economics of the…
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The Squirmy Worm
In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote, “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and…
Gearhead: Cameras as Fishing Gear
These days, almost everyone owns a digital camera. It may be nothing more than a smartphone or a…
Under the Alders: Recent History
Catching fish is as old as mankind. We’ve poisoned, trapped, clubbed, speared, netted, snagged, noodled, and of course…
At the Vise: Ally’s Shrimp
Deep into steelhead season, it’s easy to grow fidgety. Among those of us who practice faithfully, who hasn’t…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Panfish
I was float tube fishing on a local lake with a friend, hopscotching docks and other fish-holding cover,…
An Angler’s Library
The close of trout season always saddens me a little. No matter how much I’ve fished I still…
Under the Alders: The Perfect Trout Stream
Using numbers, graphs, and charts, scientists and academics routinely define the theoretically perfect stream. Riffle-to-pool ratios, frequency of…
Notes from an Angling Life: Winter Steelheading
It was midmorning in early December in front of Half Moon Bridge when an eight-pound steelhead interrupted my…
Long Casts Pay Off
Conventional fly-fishing wisdom states that 90 percent of fish are caught within 40 feet of the angler. So…