Catchy Ideas: Reading Watersheds
There are plenty of articles that explain how to read the water, helping you figure out where the…
Robert Ketley
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Catchy Ideas: Clippy, the Bendable Fly
Many of us make changes to a fly pattern, either to enhance a specific attribute or because we…
Catchy Ideas: Slinging Sinkers
One of the hurdles faced by fly fishers is figuring out how to cast full sinking lines. You…
Catchy Ideas: When the Fishing Gets Tough
How each of us defines fishing success varies. For some, the number of fish caught is the primary…
Catchy Ideas: Giants
Ask most fly fishers about big f lies, and they’ll probably tell you about their October Caddis dries,…
Catchy Ideas: Line Management
While the right rod and reel are certainly important in fly fishing, it is the fly line that…
Catchy Ideas: Threadbare Flies
As anyone with more than a passing interest in fly fishing knows, the process of making flies is…
Rockfish on Flies
Ask most California anglers about fishing for rockfish, and those who have tried it will likely recount their…
Indicator Fly Fishing for Halibut
We published this story 14 years ago, and the techniques and tackle that it described remain successful for…
Catchy Ideas: Underwater
Every so often, a new technology comes along that changes our understanding of how things are. Galileo’s telescope,…