Out of the Box Fly Patterns
California is known around the world as a place of great creativity and a high tolerance for weirdness.…
Issue: October 2013
19 posts
Gearhead: New Rods for 2014
Autumn brings with it some of the best fishing of the year, although this summer’s wildfires and low…
Be a Fall Guy
When easterners speak of “frost on the pumpkin” to describe their fall season, Northern California anglers may find…
California Confluences: Bob Madgic
If you’ve read California Fly Fisher for any length of time, you’ve read the outdoor writing of Bob…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Stillwater Rules
As a group, fly fishers are reasonably polite when plying their sport on streams. Most, if not all,…
Both Sides Now
In “Looking Through the Other End of the Telescope” in the July/August 2013 issue of California Fly Fisher,…
At the Vise – Once More, with Feeling: The IOBO Humpy
I send an e-mail to my friend Fran Noel, the artist and inveterate angler, asking if he might…
Under the Alders: Tailwaters
Asother boats were drifting downstream toward a hot dinner, a nightcap, and a soft bed, we were running…
The Paper Hatch
The Founding Flies: 43 American Masters, Their Patterns and Influences By Mike Valla. Published by Headwater Books /…