Winter is dragging… Ice forces you to new waters.  Instead of blindly grabbing your favorite nymph from your box and fishing an entire reach without as much as a look, you are actually lifting rocks, digging through mud and vege, and collecting insects you eagerly hope to identify. Read more

The air is cold, you pull out the heater, sit in your favorite chair, and begin to tie yet another supply of fishy arsenal. Synapses fire rapidly and you smile smugly, pondering next year’s goals and the big ones that won’t get away.  You take a bite out of your half-cold reuben. Sauerkraut slops down the corner of your mouth.   It’s the perfect time to ask yourself, “How geeky am I?”  I would consider myself one of the geeky-est peeps out there.  Let me explain… Read more

We hear it all the time, “reels are nothing more than expensive line holders.” This might be the truth when fishing small streams and lakes for average sized trout or other freshwater species. The reality is simply the vast majority of freshwater fish will never test your drag system or push a modern day reel to the max. Read more

Perched atop my lookout, I’d seen this fish cruise in and out of this backwater. A healthy rainbow wandering slowly and occasionally swallowing suspended morsels or going tail up for one off the bottom. It’s always fun watching fish doing their thing – especially when they’re actively getting their eat on. Read more

So obviously fall is here. Even the “evergreen” are changing colors ’round these parts. Just a reminder to pick your head up from the water to look at what’s around you! Hope fall is treating everyone well! Read more

“What are the chances?” said Nate. “Who knows?” I responded, “but it was the baddest brown I have ever seen!” Rewind several hours and once again that cursed alarm is buzzing uncontrollably.  A long drive awaited and so eyes were rubbed in an atempt to wake up. “Why, oh why am I doing this?”  The usual ritual followed suit: rod check, waders, glasses, flies, camera……… Read more

The task seemed daunting at times, almost impossible to tell you the truth. It’s the hunt, the challenge, the reward, those rare times when things just come together. I am talking about hunting trophy brown trout. Unfortunately, there’s no foolproof rulebook on how to catch big brown trout. Read more

Back on the road again, the first leg of the week long fishing adventure had concluded. More than content to have caught an amazing fish, the rest of that night’s drive passed quickly. It was about 6 hours in total to meet up with the rest of the crew and drive to our next destination to begin the second leg of the trip. Read more

We receive a fair amount of inquiries and it seems that over the last little bit many of those inquiries have been in reference to night fishing tips. Not that I – or we – are pros by any means, but I’ve been wanting to add a “tips and tricks” section for a long time so that we can address some of the common questions we get and hopefully contribute some helpful info to those that visit our site. Read more

Mishaps and days where you think nothing else can go wrong…. These are the days that we call paying dues and this trip just happened to be one of those trips, one of those days. Read more