Sometimes I worry about how some distant hot spot will have changed for the worse by the time I get there. It’s comforting to know that some places are able to maintain their specialness. The Bow River, downstream of Calgary, Alberta is a bona fide blue ribbon trout stream. It […]
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Guys, the fishless, cold days of winter are finally behind us! Great fishing, warmer weather, and longer days wait ahead. For some of us, we know it’s spring because the calendar tells us, some of us, it’s a feeling in the air, and for some of us, it’s an event. […]
To someone who is passionate about fish, there is something that feels almost magical about holding a bull trout in your hands. Beneath those tangerine scales and white tipped fins, you get the sense of something that is truly wild and untamable, pulsing at your fingertips. For me, as a […]
“Do you see any fish?” I shook my head. My buddy Blair and I stood in the middle of a river that wound its way through a meadow, in the heart of Wyoming’s high country. “Haven’t even spooked one,” I said. “Look at the bugs coming off – the fish […]
Visiting the big waters. The famous ones. Fishing them relentlessly, pursuing their legendary fish with reckless abandon. It’s at once an adventure and a crime. It’s a crime we’re all guilty of, no matter how many protestations we make to the contrary that secluded, high mountain streams are preferable to […]
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