Catchy Ideas: Livebait
Spend enough time fishing around conventional-tackle bass anglers, and you are bound to hear about big swimbaits. These…
February 2022
13 posts
The Value of Winter
In the old-timey days, memories of which make up a part of my mind in which I seem…
Winter Largemouth Bass
If you picture the perfect conditions for chasing largemouth bass on the fly, the image you would conjure…
Jig-Hook Poppers
Poppers are exciting flies to fish, but most fly fishers don’t tie their own, partly because few have…
Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Back in the Pleistocene Epoch, which ended twelve thousand years ago, Lake Lahontan covered more than eighty-six hundred…
The O’Neill Forebay Today
The O’Neill Forebay, the equalizing basin for the massive San Luis Reservoir looming just above it, has been…
Klamath Intruder
The warmth of the coffee, black and steaming, feels good in my hands on this icy-cold winter morning.…
Master of the Nymph
I’m always trying to improve my game in the off-season. There’s a reason for that. I hope to…
Beneath the Surface: My Inventory
I owe much; I have nothing; I give the rest to the poor. Rabelais A serious fly fisher…
The Foraging Angler: Where to Dine When Fishing Nevada’s Pyramid Lake
If you’re fishing Pyramid Lake and would like dinner afterward, something more than whatever you might prepare if…