I Prefer My Reels To Click
If you have read any of my previous posts to Epic FlyFishing you know that I am a little “old School” when it comes to my equipment. Especially, my reels. For all of my freshwater fishing I use a click/pawl-drag…
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Curiosity is the single most important trait of a fly fisherman
Curiosity is the attribute that drives the sport of fly fishing. It is why we start in the first place and it is what drives us to continue the pursuit until our legs stops working and beyond. It is the single…
Single-Hand Rod vs. Two-Hand Rod
Why use a single-hand rod when a two-hand rod can fish more efficiently? Pure enjoyment, that’s why. I have to admit I use a two-hand rod more often than a single-hand for steelhead, but I am slowly coming back around…
THE DAY I QUIT FISHING AND THEN THE DAY I CAME TO MY SENSES
The day I quit fishing for steelhead was a normal Washington, December day (drizzle and upper thirties air temp). My friend and I got to the Barrier Dam launch on the Cowlitz River at 4:30 AM and we were 5th…
The Old Trail
The trail never gets easier, only more familiar. I anticipate the meadows with calm pleasure and the cliffs with fear and dread. I keep trekking it season after season with my fly rod in my hand. The end of the…
A Beautiful Spring..
Now that it’s spring, I comb the coastline in search of the elusive spring run steelhead. One place that peaks my interest is a point where Canada and Alaska are one. Canada is to the right and Tongass to the…
INVEST YOURSELF FLYFISHING FOR STEELHEAD
To this day it is still important to me to be invested in my fly fishing. This could mean many things to different anglers. To me it was tying my own flies, building my own rods (I no longer do…
The thrill ISN’T gone
The most important thing about targeting any anadromous fish is timing. Water conditions and run timing are far and away the most important factors to catching fish. Beyond how far you cast, or what your beautifully spun flies look like,…
Keeping the fight for our coastal fish simple
Many things have contributed to the great decrease in salmon populations up and down the coast. There are plenty of arguments to suggest we should sit idly by with our hands tied. Many believe we understand so little about the…
‘Be like water my friend’ – Bruce Lee.
Back before there was a mad rush to simply try to catch one and post it online to show your ‘friends’, good anglers would take the time to do a little observing before simply barging in and wading deep and…
Steelhead don’t skip rope!
As long as anglers have pursued Steelhead mending the line has been part of the process of presentation. Now one could dig up some encyclopedia reference to the term ‘mend’ and although it won’t say anything about fishing, It will…
The Grease line Caddis and the Bulkley River
The “Greased Line” presentation is a cast with a sub-surface fly. The caster mends the line in order to control the speed and depth of the fly as it is presented broadside. So what does this mean to the fish? It…