The Bend-Up Deep Anchovy
When fishing California’s many offshore islands, inshore drop-offs, or deep freshwater lakes, fly fishers are routinely confronted with…
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Midges and Mosquitoes: The Anywhere, Anytime Bugs
No matter where or when you fish for freshwater species, in streams or still waters, you can be…
Gearhead: Skunked
It happens to all of us. There are days when everything seems right, yet we simply can’t connect…
At the Vise: The Beetle Bug
I’ve never fished a Beetle Bug. Last year, though, while fleshing out a box of large dry flies…
March Brown Jingler
You could say the Jingler is a cult fly. Originated about 200 years ago to fish mayfly hatches…
At the Vise: Peter’s Pheasant Tail
The mayflies are small and few. If you look closely, you see them spotting the water, one here,…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Bass Bugs
Trout and Atlantic salmon flies evolved in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, but tying and crafting fly-rod bass…
Tactics for High Water
In my youth, my dad and I didn’t have to be concerned about fishing in high water because…
The RPRT
When I was little boy in the suburbs of Detroit, I meandered along a neighborhood creek, wanting to…
Hatchery Trout in the Eastern Sierra
The eastern Sierra Nevada along Highway 395 is replete with lakes, reservoirs, creeks, and rivers, including the blue-ribbon…