Confidence
“Confidence cannot be given like a gift. It is earned through trial and error.” That’s a strange thought…
Tips & Techniques
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Pontoon Boats for Rivers
Many of us who walk and wade the big valley rivers see drift boats glide by on a…
Tips for Carp
If someone had asked me 20 years ago what I thought of fly fishing for the common carp,…
The Dropper Popper
With the possible exception of fundamentalist upstream dry-fly fishers, everyone enjoys fly fishing with poppers. Whether it is…
My “Secret” Gold Mines
As I get older, trips that were fun fishing weekends in youth seem expeditionary, requiring more time to…
How to Catch at Least a Thousand Steelhead on a Fly in One Season in California
A thousand steelhead on a fly in one season? Sounds impossible? Obviously, it is in today’s world, where…
Gearhead: New Fly Rods for 2016
It’s been 40 years since graphite was introduced as a rod-building material, and just about every year has…
Under the Alders: Didymo
In 2009, a Canadian researcher by the name of Max Bothwell published a paper that would rock the…
At the Vise: Adult Crane Fly
My buddy Jeff Cottrell first told me about crane flies. I was headed to an out-of-state tailwater, a…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Deep-Water Indicator Fishing
I was chatting with a fishing partner who is our fly-fishing club’s best chironomid angler, and I mentioned…