Under the Alders: Didymo
In 2009, a Canadian researcher by the name of Max Bothwell published a paper that would rock the…
August 2015
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California Confluences: Dan Blanton
If you’re a California fly fisher, and especially if you’re a striper angler or a saltwater fly fisher,…
At the Vise: Adult Crane Fly
My buddy Jeff Cottrell first told me about crane flies. I was headed to an out-of-state tailwater, a…
The Stillwater Fly Fisher: Deep-Water Indicator Fishing
I was chatting with a fishing partner who is our fly-fishing club’s best chironomid angler, and I mentioned…
In the Heat of the Rise
It’s 98 degrees today, an example of the sweltering heat that curses the Sacramento Valley over the summer…
The Other Lower Sacramento: Striper Fishing from Red Bluff to Butte City
Some of the best advice I ever received when I was a young guide was “Never leave fish…
L.A.’s Big Striper River
It is not a river in the strictest sense of the term, nor is it exclusively in Southern…
What’s Up with Hat Creek?
If ever there were a piece of fly-fishing water with the power to drive anglers mad, that would…
Drop-Shot Nymphing
The drop shot method — “drop shotting” — is not new. Others have used it with good results.…
Fishing Bishop
Since moving to the eastern Sierra, my wife and I have often talked about living for six months…