At the Vise: Peter’s Pheasant Tail
The mayflies are small and few. If you look closely, you see them spotting the water, one here,…
At the Vise
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At the Vise: Three Phases of E
The list of flies to tie is long. And frankly, a little daunting. Who knows, in the middle…
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…
At the Vise: Bruce’s Little Red Steelhead Nymph
There’s a certain kind of day on a certain kind of water when all I try to do…
At the Vise: Peacock Caddis
This isn’t a hunting story. But there’s a rifle-shot animal involved, a cow elk felled through a dense…
At the Vise: Too Big to Fail
My buddy Joe Kelly, the fish biologist, likes to point out the reason why so many guys are…
At the Vise: The Governor
The most remarkable aspect of Charles Frederick Holder’s Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific Coast, a remarkable…
At the Vise: All Syn Minnow
We’re going to have to get past the fact, right here at the start, that this column was…
At the Vise: Design Spiral Double
We’ll get to flies in a moment. First, some background. The idea of a design spiral comes from…
At the Vise: Not Quite Koga’s Charlie
In a pinch, I could claim this a surf fly, one that can reliably fool surfperch and croakers,…