The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Worm Casts
To a gardener, the title of this column means “by-products of the worm’s digestive tract,” or, to put…
Richard Alden Bean
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Prospects for Lake Perris
Some of the best bass angling in the Inland Empire of Southern California can be found at Diamond…
SoCal Winter Trout Streams
The operative phrase these days is “cabin fever.” It is the middle of the winter, and you can…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Winter Misery
I write this on a bleak winter dawn. The air temperature on my back patio, here in moderate…
The Lowest Owens: The Eastern Sierra’s Premier Warmwater Fishery
Would you like to toss a fly along miles and miles of river teeming with wild fish, and…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Handling Bass
I recently fished a local lake that holds a fair number of decent-sized largemouth bass. It was a…
The East Fork of the San Gabriel: Southern California’s Newest Wild-Trout River
In the rugged canyons above the foothill community of Azusa flow the many branches of the San Gabriel…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Leaders for Bass
The finely tapered trout leader is a thing of beauty, so slender that it nearly vanishes on the…
Silverwood Lake
“Windy enough for ya?” I almost couldn’t hear the question. The howling gale that swept across the water…
The Warmwater Fly Fisher: Bass-Bug Evenings
Is there a witching hour? Well, if there is on a bass pond, it certainly isn’t midnight. Rather,…