Tippets: Patterns for Tailwaters, Travel Time, Cooking Streamside

May 20, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • In a recent article Bryen Venema, fly-shop manager and a guide at Bighorn Angler, shares his top ten midge patterns for tailwater fisheries.
  • Making impressive time, an adult spring chinook takes an average of 18 days to swim 253 river miles from Bonneville Dam to Lower Granite dam, including navigating dams on the Columbia and Snake River. Joe DuPont, regional fisheries manager with the Idaho Fish and Game, explains further in a recent article via The Spokesman-Review.
  • The next fishing season has arrived, and with it, camping opportunities abound. Josh Aldridge of Gear Junkie writes a review of Coleman’s new Fyre Champion stove: a good choice for hot streamside meals.