Catchy Ideas: Underwater
Every so often, a new technology comes along that changes our understanding of how things are. Galileo’s telescope,…
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Catchy Ideas: Livebait
Spend enough time fishing around conventional-tackle bass anglers, and you are bound to hear about big swimbaits. These…
Winter Largemouth Bass
If you picture the perfect conditions for chasing largemouth bass on the fly, the image you would conjure…
Jig-Hook Poppers
Poppers are exciting flies to fish, but most fly fishers don’t tie their own, partly because few have…
Gearhead: Gear You May Need
When I took over the “Gearhead” column, I wasn’t exactly sure what I’d be writing about. Fly fishing…
The Float-n-Fly Technique with Thurman’s Float-n-Flies
Many decades ago, when I was a youngster, my dad would take my brother Lincoln and me to…
Fishing Mountain Water in Winter
Fly fishing in the winter brings solitude, and an angler is rewarded not only with the chance to…
Klamath Intruder
The warmth of the coffee, black and steaming, feels good in my hands on this icy-cold winter morning.…
At the Vise: Claret and Hope
It’s hard to know what to say about steelhead flies anymore. With a number of runs this year…
At the Vise: The Alder Fly
When my fishing buddy Joe Kelly shot a turkey last spring, I felt complicit enough to lay claim…