Under the Alders: What the River Said
Rivers are always telling a tale. Sometimes it is a long-winded yarn, and you can make out parts…
Ralph Cutter
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Under the Alders: After a Dry Winter
Every year for the past 36 years, I’ve been snorkeling and scuba diving the Truckee River. One day during…
Under the Alders: Becoming a Tree
A few days ago, while waiting for my tea to cool, I pulled Gary LaFontaine’s The Dry Fly:…
The Paper Hatch
Matching Hatches Made Easy: 10 Steps to Catch More Fish By Charles Meck. Published by Stackpole Books, 2012;…
Under the Alders: Bees
I am allergic to honeybee stings. To lessen the probability of death by bee, as a child, I…
The Paper Hatch
Flies for Western Super Hatches By Jim Schollmeyer and Ted Leeson. Published by Stackpole Books, 2011; $44.95 hardbound.…
Under the Alders: Winter Stuff
Our puny, hairless bodies, with blood vessels only skin deep, were designed for digging tubers under the blazing…
Under the Alders: Night Moves
The darkest dark there is, is in a cave. Cave dark sucks the light from your headlamp. It…
Under the Alders: Blowin’ in the Wind
Fishing in the wind is like judo: if you know how to use its energy on your behalf,…
Under the Alders: Old School
Mikey Wier’s new video, Soulfish 2: Fish Mode (see the review in this issue of California Fly Fisher)…