Downs Lake

Sitting in my canoe I am surrounded by scab rock and sage and green hills and pines and hundreds of acres of water.
Into The Mouths Of Trouts

#12 TMC 900BL, mallard flank, rusty/brown dubbing, brown polypro yarn.
Big River

ranch creek
Claire is my favorite wife. I'm not supposed to make that sort of distinction but there it is.
Winter Carp
Angling for thee winter carp is a gamble on the account of all the ducks that that have to be rowed up; sun, water, ice and wind have to be proportioned just right.
"Suh-low"
"The most basic moves practiced over and over again become the most advanced moves." Or something like that. The first few casts were rough but I got the fly out there, which in the end is all that really matters. Then I slowed things down a bit and started thinking about the different parts of my cast.
Old Timey: Finn Style
Opax-Fly Fishing busts out some tradition and heritage in his latest post. He takes us to and gives us a quick tour of the joint. He then finishes with this brilliant observation.
The tradition of fly-fishing is not static. It lives and evolves as we read, write, talk, and dream about it.
Sunfish

trophy bluegill?
Sometimes I have an itch that only dozens of hand sized, popper eating blugills can scratch.
Greatest Band in the West
Off work at 5:00 am, insert road tunes, merge onto highway. Interstate-90, eastbound. Yakima, Coeur d'Alene, St. Joe, Clark Fork, Kelly Creek, Bitterroot, Blackfoot, Rock Creek, Madison, Jefferson, Gallatin, Yellowstone, Boulder, Stillwater and rivers east; take your pick. The only hard part is coming back.
The Making Of Souphole
You’ve just killed a moose. Hungry, you’ve a hankering for nothing quite as much as some hot soup, flavored perhaps with wild leeks whose flat leaves you see wavering nearby.










