On-Line Fishing: Where to Find the Best Fishing Reports and How to Use Them
It’s Thursday night. Your cell phone rings, and your angling buddy announces that he has been given an…
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A Better Caddis
My love of the common caddisfly is no secret. Of all the bugs in the West, none provides…
Wet Flies: Still Working After All These Years
The tumbling stretch of pocket water that I found myself on late in the afternoon begged to be…
Wet Flies: Still Working After All These Years
The tumbling stretch of pocket water that I found myself on late in the afternoon begged to be…
Gearhead: The Sum of All Their Parts
When fly fishers talk about rods, chances are they’ll focus on how the rod casts, on the material…
As the Cro Flies: Patterns Born and Bred on the Upper Sacramento
Editor’s note: We first published this article 15 years ago, in our November/December 1996 issue. Because it discusses…
Coping With Runoff
When this year’s March storms cleared, and I was able to see the Sierra Crest from my front…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Cliff Hamilton, Bass-Bug Master
The lasting impression you take away from meeting bass-bug tyer Cliff Hamilton at a Southern California fly-fishing show…
Summer Flies: Five Recipes for Success
I learned to fly fish growing up in Paradise — not figuratively, but literally. Summer vacation was my…
Fish the Final Foot! (The Action Zone)
The “final foot” is the area from the water’s surface down to a depth of one foot. This…
