Fly Fishing

To Fish Or Not To Fish – A Summer Guide to Fly Fishing

If you’re a local, you’ve already experienced a hot summer day in Utah. We “humans” usually retreat to the mountains…

4 years ago

Fishwest Hosted Trip Recap – Andros South Lodge 10th Edition!

2021 marks the X anniversary for the Fishwest hosted trip to the Andros South Lodge located on Andros Island in…

5 years ago

Peacock Bass: The Powerful and Merciless Kings of the Amazon

Powerful, handsome, territorial, and ferocious; peacock bass have it all.  While payara became my true love during our fishing trip…

5 years ago

Stalking the Jungle Vampire

I heaved my cast in to the roiling rapids for the thousandth time that day.  The sun was setting on…

5 years ago

Travel During the Time of Covid

“So you’re like a human smallpox blanket then, huh?” I received all sorts of reactions when telling people about my…

5 years ago

Fishwest Monthly Staff Picks – Bahamas Bonefish

Editors Note: Welcome to the latest installment Fishwest Gear Guide! The goal of this guide is to provide you, the…

5 years ago

Back From the Dead : The Incredible Survival Story of Pyramid Lake’s Legendary Cutthroats

[gallery type="columns" size="medium" ids="5636,5633"] The Lahontan Cutthroat Trout of Pyramid Lake in northwest Nevada defy description of the written word. …

5 years ago

How To Tie Feenstra’s Grapefruit Leech

The eastern tributaries of Lake Michigan are home to some of the best steelhead fishing in the great lakes region.…

5 years ago

Fishing or Catching, Which Is Better?

Bonito in San Diego, CA It was a sunny Sunday morning in October, when my husband, Dave Smith, and I,…

5 years ago

Tips for Taking Your Kids Fly Fishing : From One Fly Fishing Obsessed Parent to Another

[gallery type="columns" ids="5404,5405,5406,5408,5403,5409,5410,5411"] Editors Note: I have three kids, currently 12, almost 10 and newly 8 years old, and man,…

5 years ago

Fishwest Monthly Staff Picks – Fall to Winter Steelhead Seasons

Editors Note: Welcome to the first Fishwest Gear Guide! The goal of this guide is to provide you, the angler,…

5 years ago

The Joy of Fish Bacon – The Alaskan Trip Of A Lifetime!

Have you heard of Fish Bacon?  I doubt you have.  I hadn’t either, until I invented the term. I’m not…

5 years ago