How to Catch at Least a Thousand Steelhead on a Fly in One Season in California
A thousand steelhead on a fly in one season? Sounds impossible? Obviously, it is in today’s world, where…
Russell Chatham
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Fishing with Bill Schaadt
This is the final part of a three-part series. The last year I fished the Chetco was 1965.…
Fishing with Bill Schaadt
This is the second part of a three-part series. As I think back on it, Bill and I…
Fishing with Bill Schaadt
This is the first installment of a three-part series. From the late 1940s and through the 1950s, I…
Why the Kid Went Fishing
For the kid, the only constant and reliable aspect of life was that of feeling different. This, and…
A Set of Tides
I’m sitting in a cabin on the crest of a ridge high in the coastal mountains of Northern…