On my way back home, I stopped to visit relatives in Nanaimo and the day I was to return to Vancouver, I decided to make the 1 1/2 hour trip and try the Cowichan River above Skutz Falls. In the late morning, just below Bear Creek as I dangled my #4 Silver Lady over the lip of the pool's drop-off, it was taken by a nice 8-pound male steelhead.

Slough Creek of the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park is the setting for one of the greatest fishing adventures you can take in the lower 48 states. The first time we fished Slough Creek the trip started with a long, arduous walk seven miles into the second meadow and ended with an equally long walk back to the parking area while making ...

This creek feeding from the lake that was only about 1 mile west of the Canyon Junction. That was an easy walk downhill of about three-quarters of a mile. So packing my day bag and donning my fly-vest, I selected my 4-piece, 9-foot, 3-weight custom rod, …

Hemingway, You Old Bear by Joseph Heywood. Stubborn blueberries cling wild, low-blue in bushy clumps Clutching for purchase on hardtack sand along the Fox, which Ernest-Black-Hearted Hemingway called the Big Two-Hearted An act of disinformation, Misdirection under the rubric of art, So-called poetic license, I say bull, His only thought ...

Canyon's coming -- Gunnison. by Dave Motes The canyon's coming folds me well-like In an iris of stone-cold shoulders, sunk there

G n Creek by W.J. Mallory The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yates The Au Sable by W.J. Mallory You're On the Miramichi by William T. Griffin The Photograph by John Engles Flye Fishing by L A Garcia Green Bay Flies by John Engles T.R.O.U.T. by DP Salamone Beyond The Fly by DP Salamone Hemingway, You Old Bear by Joseph Heywood

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G n Creek by W.J. Mallory The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yates The Au Sable by W.J. Mallory You're On the Miramichi by William T. Griffin The Photograph by John Engles Flye Fishing by L A Garcia Green Bay Flies by John Engles T.R.O.U.T. by DP Salamone Beyond The Fly by DP Salamone Hemingway, You Old Bear by Joseph Heywood

The Flyline. by Dave Motes The flyline slides toward me, orange on black rippled ice, that curls and shifts to the shape

Plunge Pool Brookie. by Dave Motes His spiral space is quiver-roar, sputter shadow of neutral suspended vortex. ...