Introducing a Beginner to Fly Fishing
Teaching someone to fly fish can be a tricky thing, but getting a beginner into a situation where…
Tips & Techniques
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The Best Craft for Stillwater Fishing? There Isn’t One
I currently have five craft for fly fishing still waters: three float tubes, one float tube–pontoon boat hybrid,…
Chicken Bones
When I was a kid, I loved it if my parents let me watch the Phil Silvers Show.…
The Skwala Hatch
The evolution of fly fishing and the staircase of progression through the years has the current state of…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Stillwater Fly Collection
A few years ago, I was lecturing in San Francisco on fly fishing private still waters before a…
Winter Stripers
The striped bass is one of the most valued and most pursued fly-rod game fish in the continental…
Under the Alders: Trivial Pursuits
How does a whirligig gig or a water strider stride? Why do male mayflies carry twice as much…
At the Vise: Anadromous Stone
It had been awhile since I thought much about salmon. They were around, of course, especially during the…
Under the Alders: Drought and Trout
California is experiencing one of the most prolonged and severe droughts in living memory. It is a drought…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Refining Subsurface Tactics – Fly-Rod Drop-Shotting
I prefer catching largemouth and smallmouth bass on top-water flies, and I pursue this challenge throughout the season.…