The High Sierra: Do-It-Yourself Style
Over the years, I have gone from being an occasional visitor to the Sierra backcountry, armed with Genny…
Issue: October 2012
16 posts
The Foraging Angler: Lake Davis, Frenchmans, Portola, Graeagle, and Beckwourth
The immense california Water Project dammed Big Grizzly Creek in 1967, an act that in turn flooded a…
The Good Fight: There’s More to the DFG Remake Than a Name Change
Should the name of the California Department of Fish and Game be changed to the California Department of…
Gearhead: Single-Speed Fly Fishing
Editor’s note: Gearhead columnist Larry Kenney is working on a story highlighting new fly-fishing products that were unveiled…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Going with the Grain(s)
“Why don’t you write something about how the warmwater scene has changed over the last twenty years?” The…
Angling Nowhere
You know the deal. Son and his wife can’t get it straight. Their own sons, angels both of…
At the Vise: Bill’s Big Fish Fly
Once in a while in this column, I feature one of my own fly designs. For this issue,…
Under the Alders: What the River Said
Rivers are always telling a tale. Sometimes it is a long-winded yarn, and you can make out parts…
The Paper Hatch
Productive Trout Flies for Unorthodox Prey: The Oddballs By Jeff Morgan. Published by Frank Amato Publications, 2012; $29.95…
A Set of Tides
I’m sitting in a cabin on the crest of a ridge high in the coastal mountains of Northern…