At the Vise: Trout Creek Caddis
Weekend temperatures promise to crack a hundred. An oil train derails, catches fire, begins belching toxic smoke that…
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The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Scuds
Scuds are small, semitransparent, shrimplike freshwater crustaceans that, when dead or crawling around on rocks, look much like…
The Half-Pounder, A Steelhead Trout
Most anglers are aware that steelhead are rainbow trout that migrate from the freshwater environment to the Pacific…
Delta Panfish
When talking fly fishing the California Delta, most anglers think first of striped bass and largemouth and smallmouth…
A Primer on Night Fishing
Are you tired of sweating through summer days on your favorite California lake while fending off water skiers,…
Hooking a Record Calico Bass
The week after my article about trying to land Big Bertha, a 10-pound-plus calico bass caught on a…
Gearhead: The Punk Rod
It is easy to get into a fly-fishing rut. Almost everyone has experienced times when they find themselves…
Under the Alders: Seeing Blue
For someone who has drunk as much wine as I have, it’s amazing how woefully ignorant I am…
At the Vise: Flymphs
We reeled in lines at dark. Joe was cold, shivering some, and when we waded the fast water…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Uplining Fly Rods
Most quality fly rods manufactured today and for the last 20 or so years do a good job…