At the Vise: The Zug Bug
I’m standing at the open tailgate of my brand-new seventeen-year-old fishing pickup, pawing through the contents of more…
Scott Sadil
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At the Vise: Light Cahill Wet Fly
Has there ever been a lovelier material for tying flies than lemon wood duck flank feathers? In our…
At the Vise: The Surf Shrimp
I always hesitate before offering up ideas about surf flies. More than any other sort of fishing I…
At the Vise: Neo-Freschi Bulldog
I rarely write about stillwater fly patterns in this column. My attention rests on flies I use, and…
At the Vise: Perdigón
In a scene almost identical to one I wrote about in these pages last year, I was tying…
At the Vise: Rusty Rat
Few things capture the spirit of fly fishing quite like the school of thought that directs us to…
At the Vise: Big Jelly
My buddy Joe Kelly is a hunter, noted within a small circle of friends as the guy who…
At the Vise: Grey Duster
If you’re restless, like I am, and you feel life’s too short to quit looking around trying to…
At the Vise: Czechish Nymph
An old acquaintance of mine, Gary Davis, was kind enough to give me a place to crash for…
At the Vise: Amiocentrus
I remember the humiliation as sharply as yesterday. The river was becoming my favorite. I fished it often…