Category Archives: *Recycle
Bonefish Beginner
By Bob Reece After twenty five years of fly fishing for freshwater species, I recently threw my first casts into salt water. As is always the case, hindsight is 20/20. While I had plenty of success, there are several things that I wish I would have done...
Redbands, 9X9
By Dan Frasier “HE WANTS TO TALK TO YOU.” MIKE, THE OWNER OF ORVIS NORTHWEST OUTFITTERS, SAID FLATLY AS HE HANDED ME HIS CELL. My guide. Colby, was on the phone and he had this idea. “Dude, I just had this thought that made me drop my...
Don’t Touch That Drag
By Louis Cahill There’s nothing quite like the feeling of getting spooled by a big fish. Deep inside we all kind of want to have that problem, but when it happens you may feel some unexpected panic. I remember a time on the Dean River when I...
Horsehair Worms
By Dan Frasier You’re actually fishing worms Tall waiving grass alive with thousands of hoppers and a stiff breeze. No setting can more quickly raise a flyfisherman’s heart rate. The promise of errant leaps by the insects causing aggressive and splashy rises by the fish can make...
Autumnal Trouting
By: Alice Tesar With high water temps and river closures this summer throughout the west it is likely you’ve been fishing some unfamiliar high-country creeks and lakes. Exploring new water shouldn’t end because summer is over. Fall fishing in the high country can produce some of the...