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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...

A popular and crowded river.   Western rivers are some of my favorite fisheries but they can also be challenging. Some of the most difficult fishe...

  The more fly fishers learn about the sport of fly fishing the easier they fall prey to creative advertising and competitive social pressure to m...

Fly Fishing The Deerfield River In Early March   Snow melt has made the banks  of the river soft.   I half slide down to the water, snow become mud...

    Halfway up the mountain trout are rising. Jenkins sits on a boulder and watches them. Dimpled rings appear where jaws brush the surface, fish ...

  A “double ender”. Wood drift boat pioneer, Woodie Hindman, developed the first double enders in the 1940s.This construction revolutionized drift...

Alec at the bench with his Norlander vise. (photograpy by Gregory Minaker and Joseph Rossano)   To many, Alec Jackson was the man behind those gor...