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2020 Has Been Crazy
I’ve covered a lot of miles in this crazy year of pandemic and perdition. As terrible as 2020 has been for so many around the world, I haven’t got too much to complain about. I had enough work to keep my gas tank full and I had enough free time to travel, fly fish and…
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The Long Draw Cutthroat
A few years ago, I went exploring with the RV up near the top of Cameron Pass, Colorado, where the scuttlebutt said that there were dispersed campsites available along Long Draw reservoir and the creek that fed it. About 12 miles away from the blacktop on a heavily washboarded dirt road, I found the only…
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Searching for Grayling and Salmonflies
Last Sunday, I rode up the Poudre Canyon for the third week in a row to check on Joe Wright reservoir, looking to hit the grayling spawning run. Three years ago I lucked into it on June 26, and it was some of the craziest fly fishing action I’ve ever experienced… a fish on every…
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The Tiny First Fish of 2020 in Colorado
I’ve been at work in Colorado for two weeks now and have eased back into fly fishing freshwater. Aside from a few outings for panfish in a Petaluma pond and a couple of short days on creeks in Arizona and Nevada, I haven’t fished freshwater since the Fall of 2018. I went with a friend…
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Eastbound Again -A Stop at Lamoille Canyon, Nevada
I’m headed to Colorado again to finish up a job I started there back in 2016. In 2015, my first year traveling in my Funmover RV, I stopped at Lamoille Canyon in June and enjoyed a few great days flyfishing up and down the creek. I visited again in 2018 on my way to Montana,…
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Last Shot at Redfish Bay
I’m down to less than a week before I need to be in Dallas for a family get-together. The forecast for the next three days is partly cloudy with mild southeasterly winds. I’m going to hit the jetty this afternoon for the last time and Thursday/Friday with my last shots at finding tailing fish on…
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Little Swamp Donkey Love
Searching for Redfish in Skinny Water on the Texas Coast
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Sunrise and Flat Water
I don’t often get up before sunrise, but I have to take advantage of those moments when the wind isn’t blowing if I stand any chance of finding the pod of tailing redfish that I’m seeking. There was a 4 hour window on Saturday and I was able to launch the kayak a half hour…
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A Troutbum on the Texas Coast
I didn’t plan on coming to Texas at all. A year ago I was wrapping up a stretch of work and planned on spending Summer in Montana… it was glorious for the most part. But by the middle of October I had to make a decision on where to go next, and since it was…
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Getting Closer
The weather here on the Gulf Coast of Texas is still dark and wet, with thunderstorms the last two mornings and visibility of perhaps a mile. Watching the ten day forecast on WeatherUnderground , there are two partly sunny days out of a chain of cloudy, stormy, gray predictions ahead. Last Sunday, the sun did…