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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...

Fathers and Sons

A few years after we moved into our home, Trish and I...

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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...

The Wild Bunch

The water is low, but the river may still hold a few surprises if I take Master Cotton’s advice and fish long and...