Slow Learner
I’ve always been a reluctant student. In school I was either bored and half asleep, or rebelling against…
Tips & Techniques
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More Crafty Flies
Effective Patterns Made with Inexpensive Craft-Store Materials Large flies for bass and saltwater fish are quite expensive, four…
Common Mistakes When Fishing Indicators on Large Rivers
Year after year, I see anglers making the same mistakes when they use indicators while nymphing large rivers…
Sugar
Shad are supposedly easy to catch, a fish that will hit any fly you cast to it. One…
Finding Shad
Twenty-five years ago I began working in the fly-fishing retail business, helping anglers with their questions about equipment…
Gearhead: Catch and Release
Occasionally, thanks to your skill or luck (or both), a fish is going to take your fly. The…
Under the Alders: Bouncing Betty
Bouncing Betty was conceived on the Madison River in July of 2011. Lisa and I had just purchased…
At the Vise: All Syn Minnow
We’re going to have to get past the fact, right here at the start, that this column was…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Boatmen and Beetles
Throughout the year, but especially during the spring and fall, small blackish and iridescent beetles of different sizes…
The String Leech
I stand on a wooded bank, where the leafless branches of valley oaks reach skyward like begging skeletons…