California Confluences: Peter Pumphrey
I first met Peter Pumphrey around twenty years ago at a fly-fishing conclave hosted in Kings Beach by…
Issue: December 2017
14 posts
At the Vise: Ally’s Shrimp
Deep into steelhead season, it’s easy to grow fidgety. Among those of us who practice faithfully, who hasn’t…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Panfish
I was float tube fishing on a local lake with a friend, hopscotching docks and other fish-holding cover,…
An Angler’s Library
The close of trout season always saddens me a little. No matter how much I’ve fished I still…
The Paper Hatch
Modern Steelhead Flies By Rob Russell and Jay Nicholas. Published by Stackpole Books, 2017; $39.95 hardbound. I’d never…
Under the Alders: The Perfect Trout Stream
Using numbers, graphs, and charts, scientists and academics routinely define the theoretically perfect stream. Riffle-to-pool ratios, frequency of…
Notes from an Angling Life: Winter Steelheading
It was midmorning in early December in front of Half Moon Bridge when an eight-pound steelhead interrupted my…
An Owens River Primer
The Owens River was named for Richard Owens, a member of John C. Fremont’s third expedition to California,…
Long Casts Pay Off
Conventional fly-fishing wisdom states that 90 percent of fish are caught within 40 feet of the angler. So…
The Boss
You never forget your first time. For me, it wasn’t until I was in my mid-twenties. I had…