Wingless Wet Flies: Expanding the Design
I love tying flies, and I occasionally tie a fancy-winged salmon fly that I may never fish and…
Steven Bird
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Five Soft Hackles for Meeting the Hatch
There are reaches of the river where depth, bottom structure, and flow coalesce to create the ideal environment…
EZ Mouse
As a trout angler I tend toward wee traditional-style flies most of the time, so it’s a leap…
Muff the Cast?
Staying low, not letting our shadow touch the water, careful not to rattle the stones underfoot, we slink…
March Brown Jingler
You could say the Jingler is a cult fly. Originated about 200 years ago to fish mayfly hatches…
Sympathy for the Devil: Fishing the Yellowjacket
Even though they are abundant along trout streams in summer, we tend to overlook the yellowjacket wasp’s potential…
Making the Best of a Hare’s Ear Mask
I used to waste a lot of hare’s heads. I’d use up the reddish poll on a natural…
Rene Harrop’s Green Drake Emerger
Rene Harrop’s soft-hackle Green Drake is a killing pattern on the Henrys Fork and wherever else this mayfly…
In the Summer of Dying Trees
Twenty miles to the west, in the higher ranges beyond the river country, a furious elephant head of…
The By-the-Wind Sailor Jellyfish Hatch
It’s good to check a fish’s stomach contents once in awhile. The practice is always informative and sometimes…
