Improving Your Fly-Tying Productivity
I’m not quite sure what happened to all the flies I tied for my boxes this season, but…
Issue: December 2011
16 posts
Highway 32: The Deer Creek Highway
As I drive up Highway 32, I often recall the first time I fished Deer Creek and all…
The Onion Valley Trailhead
The trails in the Sierra Nevada trace their history not to recreation, but to economic purposes. They were…
At the Vise: Andy Guibord’s Striper Caviar
I’ve been acquainted with Andy Guibord for a long time, but I came to know him better when…
California Confluences: Robbie Wirth
Most of us fish as an avocation, as something we do for enjoyment, an addition to what life…
The Lowest Owens: The Eastern Sierra’s Premier Warmwater Fishery
Would you like to toss a fly along miles and miles of river teeming with wild fish, and…
The Fundamentals of Deep-Canyon Trout Fishing
I live among canyons — lots of steep and deep canyons: east-west canyons, north-south canyons, and those that,…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Handling Bass
I recently fished a local lake that holds a fair number of decent-sized largemouth bass. It was a…
The Good Fight: Conservation Updates
Trout Conservationist Heads State Fish and Game Agency For the first time in California’s history, a trout conservation…
Gearhead: Rods and Reels for 2012
New fly-fishing products have traditionally been introduced in the very late summer or early fall. Lately, driven in…