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Foggy Feelings
The last two weeks on the Texas coast have been like this. I have not caught a fish while in Port Aransas. I had another tourist offer the sage old advice, “A bad day of fly fishing is better than…”. As was trying and failing to cast with the wind blowing my running line out…
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A Bad Day of Fly Fishing is Better Than…
I spent Tuesday afternoon on the Firehole river in Yellowstone National Park. It was reputed to be “on fire” (yuk yuk) by the West Yellowstone fly shops, and I’ve long wanted to fish the stretch where geysers are steaming away stream-side. I walked and waded for about five hours, but the afternoon started with me…
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Back on the Madison River
Nearly three months of Montana and it is beginning to feel like the end is near. I’m back on the water I started at, The 50 Mile Riffle. If I were to do it over from the start I would have been up here at the beginning of June at the latest. It seems like…
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A Thousand Miles, Thirty Days
1010.16 miles at 1.4 mph. That’s what Garmin’s track has to say about my travels since I turned it on leaving Reno on June 21, 2018. Not including the prequel spent in the high Sierra of California or the week in Reno waiting for news about my Dad. He died on on Father’s Day, back…
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Chasing Bugs on the Madison
When I started my fly fishing adventure in 2015, I did not have any particular goals or targets in mind, beyond spending time on some iconic waters of the West. In total that year I fished 57 distinct bodies of water, including the visit to Florida at the end. I’ve stumbled across seasonal highlights without…
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Seven Hours at Last Chance
Seven hours walking along the banks of the Henry’s Fork, standing in the current, looking at bugs and birds. Almost nothing was going on in the water, until a explosion of action for 15 minutes or so nearing sunset. Huge drakes popping off the water and fish gulping them down all around me, while rain…
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Cheesman Olives
In June of 2016, I hiked down into Cheesman Canyon to fish that stretch of the South Platte River in Colorado. Cheesman is known as a tricky body of water with “well educated” fish, fish that have seen every fly flung by many of the best anglers in the business. I do not typically enjoy…
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California Striped Bass
Last winter I spent three months trying to catch steelhead trout from California’s north coast rivers, and in three months I caught one adult fish. I’ve been here in Corte Madera for two weeks and I’ve already tripled my fish count from last year! Last weekend I got the best one, but with a really…
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Friday Fish: Lamoille Canyon
Just a picture. The prettiest scenery in all of Nevada, if not the whole of America. Plus, fish are rising in the creek.
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The Redington Crosswater Fish
Yesterday’s post mentioned some of the fish I caught on this rod, and I thought I would just share some photos today. The rod first saw use in the California surf, trying for surf perch, but that didn’t work out. It’s next use was in Nevada, trying for carp in a nearly dried out reservoir.…