Category Archives: US & Canada
Brown Trout After Dark
This isn’t something I do every day, but every once in a while I brave the dark and the possibility of bumping into bears or snakes or whatever else crawls around at night and has the ability to bite, and I throw for … Continue reading
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The West’s Small Streams: Go time now
Dry flies, eager rainbows and cutts If you’re an angler living in the West and have entrepreneurial spirit, this is the best time of the year. Here’s why: after a major spring/early summer runoff, when freestone rivers were bent out … Continue reading
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Raising Kids Alaska Style
Laying waste with Barbie NOTE: Thanks to my friend Kent Sullivan, who’ll you recognize as my partner during the recent Angler’s Tonic Alaska trip, for providing this great narrative on a trip he took a while back. He told me … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Northwest
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Tonic in Alaska
Just got back from Alaska this morning at 1 a.m. Felt as tired and whipped as when I returned from Russia a few years ago where I fished Atlantic salmon. And, in fact, I was almost in Russia two days … Continue reading
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Bitterroot Cutthroats
Fast Float—West Fork Bitterroot The water is still high in most of the northern Rockie’s drainages, but some are running relatively clear and offering decent fishing. The West Fork of the Bitterroot and the mainstem Bitterroot are good examples. Took … Continue reading
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Image of The Week: Kanektok River Alaska kings
Couldn’t resist posting this shot, mostly because I have fond memories of fishing the Kanektok with Deneki Outdoors an Alaska West in June and seeing a friend of mine, Jim Nave, slam this giant. Two hand rods and big intruders and … Continue reading
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Skwala Stoneflies, Southwest Montana Style
I thought it was a little late in the season for skwala stoneflies but I got out on the water yesterday with Dan Summerfield and we saw more skwalas on the water than either of us has seen before. At … Continue reading
Chasing Wolverines in the Madison Range
Dead elk, pissed off vets, and climbing in wolverine dens. Not for the meak. Standing near the top of a 10,000-foot mountain in south- west Montana, I found an elk calf carcass, decapitated with a leg ripped from the hip … Continue reading
Eastern Idaho Carp Classic 7
Big fun, big fish on Idaho’s Blackfoot Reservoir. Wanted to let all of you know that an event is taking place in eastern Idaho that shouts-out to all who love warmwater fishing