There’s not much I can say other than “..at least mine’s natural.”
I’ve been researching maps on creeks and impoundments in my area, looking for those less traveled places that may hold something special. I’ve found a brown trout stream and a couple small lakes off the beaten path - but the most persistent thread through [...]

In a surprise move for Southern California anglers, water agencies have closed a number of local lakes to boat use. Fearing the spread of Quagga mussels and concerned about the liability of clearing pumps and intakes, authorities in four counties have banned all boat traffic from  lakes Casitas, Westlake, Wolford, and Cachuma.
They consume so [...]

It’s the “Great Unmentionable” the tacit understanding between sporting gentlemen that masks the awful truth, you don’t like the slimy, wriggly, bastards - and would never consider them table fare.
Watching a documentary on the human brain the other night, and it recounts the tale of a fellow that survived 89 days at sea, how [...]

The 2008 World Fly Fishing Championships will be held next week in New Zealand. One of those events we find out after the fact, as no media stateside appears to be covering the proceedings.
Despite our insistence the sport shouldn’t be made competitive, the rest of Europe has had fly fishing competitions for many years. [...]

I’m reminded of some of the unexpected fish I’ve landed after seeing this bit on a wildlife biologist that caught a fish he’d stocked nearly 25 years earlier.
Surprised is a better word, like the 12″ trout I caught out of Hat Creek that had three flies stuck in his face. To add insult to [...]

It’s a tough issue and likely one we’ll be debating on the West Coast due to the collapse of the Salmon fishery. Europe isn’t immune, only the fish species changes with European Cod fishermen suffering a like fate.
Senators Kerry and Kennedy secured $13.4 million in funds to assist local fishermen, and are incensed that [...]

Alistair of the Urban Fly Fisher caught my attention with his unveiling of yet another collection of ladies giving their all for a fly fishing calendar. It’s a known angling weakness, starting with Ulysses and the Sirens, you fellows keep thinking around the next bend is a bevy of panting nubiles intent on portly, middle [...]

It’s always easier to wax eloquent when the gear is new, but what happens after six months of heavy usage?
I figured to follow up on my September post on the Hodgeman Wadewell II hip waders, as I finally managed to poke a small hole in them. Calling them “waders” is almost a misnomer, as [...]

It’s like realizing the President of the United States is standing next to you - as you struggle to pull your hands out of your pockets to shake his hand, the suddenness of it all disengages your frontal lobe..
When you wake up in jail, and they remove the Secret Service arsenal from your various orifices [...]

Reed Curry at Overmywaders.com is writing a multipart series on trout vision and how the ultraviolet spectrum may affect the appearance of both real and artificial mayflies.
I’m a self confessed science buff - but still consider this a must read for any fly tier that labors over an exacting imitation:
The materials we commonly use [...]