The Golden Stone
It’s spring, and the Golden Stoneflies are hatching. Usually the hatch begins in April and continues into June,…
Lance Gray
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Winter Dry-Fly Fishing
It’s cold. It’s wet — a mixed blessing and curse for fly fishers some years, with either too…
Rigging Like a Guide Part 2
Many fly fishers are searching for information on how to improve their own angling skills and knowledge, but…
Fighting Big Fish from a Personal Watercraft
You’ve likely already learned that fighting big fish can be challenging. Fighting fish from float tubes and pontoon…
Lake Basics
Fly fishers who fish lakes need to understand how a lake functions. Many years ago, while guiding Eagle…
Rigging Like a Guide
I’m a guide, and guides get to hear a lot about what fly fishers want to know. We’re…
Shad: A Primer
On a balmy spring day in early May, I was driving my old truck along Highway 45, which…
The Fab Four
In a way, Interstate 5 is purgatory for fly fishers, a long, usually hot and dry route that…
The Foraging Angler: Up I-5: Dining in the Northern Sacramento Valley
In my younger years, it was all about the fish — and it still is. But getting older…
Fly Fishing Eagle Lake
The person who said that the worst day fishing beats the best day working never fished Eagle Lake…