Barbieri’s Loop-Stop Leader System
This adjustable leader system uses a very a short, but thick butt section that is attached to 1-foot…
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The Rusty Spinner
So beautiful, so subtle, the way the sip rippled the reflection’s smooth tapestry. I almost missed it —…
Go for the Gold: The Horsehoe Meadows Trailhead
In my mind’s eye, I see the eastern Sierra defined by a series of more than forty trailheads…
Gearhead: Sink-Tip Lines for Single-Handers
According to fly-line manufacturers, floating lines make up about 80 percent of the fly-line market, with sinking lines…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Can Fish Think?
On a trip down the mountain to Sacramento, after a month of frustrating fly fishing at Lake Davis,…
Under the Alders: Run for Cover
California has the most diverse fishing opportunities in the nation. There are high-Sierra tarns so clear that golden…
At the Vise: Trout Creek Caddis
Weekend temperatures promise to crack a hundred. An oil train derails, catches fire, begins belching toxic smoke that…
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…