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Water-time is easy to write about, but in real life it is hard to do. To get more river time I was forced to let my gym membership go. It’s hard to...

   You may disagree with some of my aggressive strategies in a competitive steelhead environment. And, yes, if you are a ma­ture adult, you may be...

This second part of the book concentrates on the flies used for steelhead, the sea-run rainbows of the West Coast of North America and, more recen...

While I fished with the fly rod, my wife angled with a cane pole and a book in the other hand. A fish ripped the rod right out of her grasp and tor...

No. 9. The Spirit Fly. Tied by Syd Glasso circa early 1980s.   In 2018, Charlie Brumwell, Steve Hanson and I were sorting through Ron Grantham's f...

Field and Stream writer Patrick McManus once said that, “There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.” On the spectrum of bait lobbers an...

Lessons from the Past - an excerpt   Salmon flies developed from trout flies, and both were originally of a commonplace character and dull in app...

It was a splendid early September day, sharp and chilly in the early morning. It warmed up quickly with the bright, flame-orange orb peeking over t...

A VERY Special Cigar! What may look like a simple cigar and 4 flies that are eternally preserved in epoxy—like an ancient mosquito preserving din...

The rocks were void of moss and all the slippery stuff that makes deep wading so difficult on most rivers.    Robust and beautiful—just what you'...

Way Back  Sarah knows no one fishes for brook trout anymore. Her pap did before the cancer took him. She’s seen grainy photos of him and her dad...

A brown trout taken while Euro nymphing. Note the quick change tippet holder clipped to my lanyard.   I was working my way upstream thru a shallow...