Category: Fishing Journal

Fly fishing is long stretches of nothing happening, punctuated by a single second that demands everything. Learning to hold both is the whole art.

Snowmelt blows the river out every spring, but the days on either side of high water are some of the best fishing of the year if you know where to stand.

For one week each spring the river loses its mind, and so do the fish. Here is how to be standing in the right run when the salmonflies come off.

A big brown that refuses your dry is not refusing you. It is telling you to read the water again, change your depth, and earn the eat.

Before you tie on a fly, learn to see the river the way a trout does — as food, shelter, and risk arranged in moving water.

High alpine lakes hold willing fish and short seasons. The hike is the price of admission, and the fishing is the reward for paying it.

The westslope cutthroat is the native trout of this valley, and catching one is different — slower, more deliberate, more like a handshake than a fight.