18 Tips For Tying Better Streamers

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Once you start fishing streamers, you never go back. If you are a streamer flinger, you know it the first time you tie one on. You huck and duck and strip and the next thing you know you're spending long whisky fueled nights bent over the...

Sunday Classic / F-ing-A Yampa!

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This story contains adult language. If you chose to read it, don't complain. IT TAKES A FEW MINUTES TO SET IN, WE ARE ON ONE OF THE GREATEST TROUT RIVERS IN THE WORLD AND THE FISH ARE GOING OFF AND WE ARE TOTALLY ALONE. Wal-Mart, Frisco,...

Saturday Shoutout / Captain Jack

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IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE FLY FISHING FILMS BEAR THE NAME CAPTAIN JACK FILMS. Jako Lucas always seems to be right out on the edge of the fly fishing horizon. Whether it's Yellow Fish in Africa or Atlantic Salmon in Russia there's...

Use Old Plano Boxes For Bulk Fly Storage

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Of all the thousands of dollars of bass fishing gear that I've accumulated over the years there's very little of it that I can find a use for in my fly fishing today. Well, I could probably find a way to use some of it,...

Sunday Classic / Use Birds to Quickly Locate Bait and Schools of Fish

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Certain times of the year in both freshwater and saltwater, anglers can use flocks of actively feeding birds to locate large concentrations of bait and fish. This was the case during my recent fly fishing trip with Capt. Joel Dickey. First thing, early in the...