Palominos, Splakes, and Apaches
I’m not one to brag about my fly-fishing expertise. My skill set is pretty basic, although I’m willing…
Issue: October 2023
14 posts
Feather River Steelhead
I have been a fly-fishing guide in Northern California for twenty years, and of all the streams I…
The Virginia Lakes Basin
A fish mount hangs on the wall of my home, at the landing halfway up the stairs to…
Tim Fox’s Caddis Poopah
As a fly tyer, I always wonder about how a particularly productive and ingeniously designed fly pattern was…
Antelope Lake
Antelope Lake is nestled in the Plumas National Forest northeast of Quincy. At 5,069 feet in elevation, the…
Hookless Air Fishing: The Future of Our Sport?
Harry Smith is the incarnate future of fly fishing. That might seem like an odd thing to say…
This Way, This Good
By Richard Anderson Hard, hot light by ten a.m., windows ricocheting sun, concrete incandescent, even blacktop white. No…
This is the End (Maybe? Certainly?)
The issue of California Fly Fisher that you now hold in your hands is its last. There are…
Letters
A Useful Art “The Art of Mending” by Mike Pease is awesome (July/August 2023). I have often thought…
The Paper Hatch
The Orvis Guide to Finding TroutBy Tom Rosenbauer. Published by Lyons Press; $34.95 softbound. “Reading water” — figuring…