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Small Streams

Over the last few years, I've found myself gravitating...

Desert Bobber Fishing: Rediscovering A Love for Nymphing on Pyramid Lake

I hate nymphing with strike indicators. It's not that I...

Barnwood Slam

Editor's note: For backstory to enrich your reading of...

Craving Chrome: A Steelheader's Guide to Glorious Suffering

Just hearing the word "steelhead" stirs something deep in...

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Fathers and Sons

A few years after we moved into our home, Trish and I finished off the basement, creating two rooms, one for her art...

Barnwood

My neighbor retired last month. This is his fourth or fifth retirement. Then he goes back to the office. Such things...

Roosterfish Dreams

I heard a key scratch in the lock. The door swung open to reveal a maid, the hotel manager, and a Mexican...

Más Roosterfish

I had tried for roosterfish on my own, and caught one. “You were lucky,” my pal, Greg Flores said. I was unfazed...

Roosterfish, Sí!

“Just bring a tee shirt and fly rod.” Greg Flores had called from his suite at the Las Palmas Hotel. “These...

Steelhead Season: Old Friends and New Experiences

This time of year the phone starts ringing with people asking about what’s happening with the steelhead runs here in...

Mud in Your Eye

I disapprove of drinking. But not saloons, oddly enough. Coming off the water on a 90-degree day there’s nothing...

No Name Creek

After parking at the bridge and fighting deer flies, buckthorn, stinging nettles, and summer humidity, I stepped from...