Fly fishing in the Italian Alps: Blowouts, high water, and mystery trout on the Swiss border
Can you help identify this strange trout variant? Salmo truta helvetica?
Fly fishing in the Italian Alps: Blowouts, high water, and mystery trout on the Swiss border
Can you help identify this strange trout variant? Salmo truta helvetica?
Fly fishing in the Italian Alps: Decoding access
The first in a series on fly fishing in the Italian alps, on getting licensed, and the main differences between fly fishing in Italy and the USA.
What we give up fly fishing
On Adam Phillips, and finding, and re-finding our identities as anglers
Hot weather and trout fishing
A few top tips—and one essential piece of gear—can help keep fish safe when the temps get high.
How to not look like an idiot when you first start learning to fly fish
Three ways to conquer the self-consciousness that comes with beginning fly fishing and start building your fly fishing practice
Fly fishing and problem solving
Moving beyond the engineering mindset, and trying to embrace frustration as a key function of learning
The Five Permissions: How to be a great fishing friend
Take me fishing. A simple request, a schmaltzy commercial, a pivotal role. Here are five permissions you can give yourself and your fishing friend to create space for connection.
Forest fires and fly fishing
Do forest fires hurt fly fishing? An update from the Clackamas river fire zone.
Fools rush in: on finding, hooking, and losing a trophy trout
Reflections on an epic face-plant, remembering Bill Walton
Opening days
Opening up, setting intentions for the new season
The best fly fishing books ever written
A definitive, once-and-for-all, not at all biased list of all the fly fishing books that matter
Signs of summer: Salmonflies are on!
It's big bug time on the Deschutes, the most wonderful time of the year.