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We know 99 percent of what a trout eats, it eats beneath the surface.  But we imagine a trout is there. He is hungry. He looks up. He will take a d...

From October to April, in between ice-in and ice-out, and even when there is ice on Lake Erie, but the streams are flowing, the Lake Erie tributary...

Despite the windy conditions, I finally found my timing and rhythm for a scandi cast on my glass switch rod and was able to launch a decent cast in...

You can’t walk across the river on the backs of salmon, but you might trip over the pinks.   Brian Cathcart teased this coho out of pocket water...

There are many places in the world to fly fish for rainbow trout of exceptional size.  Rainbow trout 30 plus inches and reaching 20 pounds!  But if...

One of the reasons I like this configuration best is the Power Pro is very limp and gets limper the more the fly is fished. This really allows the ...

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...