Backpacking for Trout: A Beginner’s Guide
I am not a backpacker. I am a fly fisher. I do not backpack for the sake of…
Tips & Techniques
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Fishing the Dry Fly: Two Ways to Improve Your Game
Fishing the dry fly is the epitome of fly fishing. Not only are you imitating nature’s own handiwork…
The Carpenter Ant
The trout of summer eat ants as readily as children eat candy — or as adults like me…
Road Tripping
The most revolutionary development in fly fishing had nothing to do with rods, reels, or terminal tackle. The…
Sympathy for the Devil: Fishing the Yellowjacket
Even though they are abundant along trout streams in summer, we tend to overlook the yellowjacket wasp’s potential…
Gearhead: Trout-Weight Doubles for the Suds
Initially popularized for ocean use by Northeastern saltwater fly fishers in the early 1990s, double-handed rods have become…
Under the Alders: Flies in the Face of Logic
The popularity of an artificial fly pattern may last longer than the life span of a mayfly, but…
At the Vise: Too Big to Fail
My buddy Joe Kelly, the fish biologist, likes to point out the reason why so many guys are…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Bass Fishing on Top
I have two angling friends whose e-mail addresses tell a lot about their fly-fishing preferences. I won’t give…
In Praise of the Basics
Simplicity is a virtue hard to come by for many fly fishers. When I took up the sport,…