Layering: Keeping Warm While Winter Fishing Nathan Leavitt January 30, 2014 Fly Fishing Tips & Tricks 8 Comments Nothing is worse than spending your day shivering out on the water. Cold days out on the water can be awesome - the trick is just making sure that you're not cold! THE way to dress warmly is to layer...
UTAH – THE TIME IS NOW! Nathan Leavitt January 13, 2014 News/Events 2 Comments Let me start by saying this: Please take 3 minutes and read this - especially if you spend anytime fishing in Utah (or any other state for that matter). The future of you (and your kids') access to Utah...
7 Tips to Get You Through Winter Nathan Leavitt December 24, 2013 Fly Fishing Tips & Tricks Winter is here and with the cold weather comes more time spent indoors. We've put together a few tips that may help you pass the time until your favorite spring spot is ready! If you have more tips please...
Kareem Abdul and the Lake Trout Nathan Leavitt November 25, 2013 Fish Stories 6 Comments Sometimes you get 'em and some times you don't. We fished all through the night and into the early morning. The action ebbed and flowed through the night with long cold spells and moments of action. I even had...
OSF @ IF4 – Change of Pace Nathan Leavitt November 20, 2013 Fish Stories, OSF Video Edits 6 Comments So earlier this summer we headed North with our good friend Spencer Higa to do some fishing. It was somewhat of a last-minute trip but we went with the intentions of doing a bit of filming. Anyway, we're...
Thrown into the Fire Nathan Leavitt November 5, 2013 Fish Stories, Popular 2 18 Comments Recently, I realized that my little brother and I don't see each other as often as we should. I'm a busy dad of three and he's a hard-working fireman who's prepping for med school. After coming to this...
One on One Nathan Leavitt September 30, 2013 Fish Stories 4 Comments When you have kids you don't get many opportunities to get out on any adventures without the kiddos. Our first son came much earlier than we originally planned and we wanted to keep our kids close in age so...
#fishingandstuff Nathan Leavitt August 20, 2013 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish, One-Hit Wonders, OSF Video Edits 11 Comments The fly fishing world is funny nowadays. That's mostly a good thing. More and more people are getting out and getting after it. More and more of those same folks are choosing to share their love for fly...
Mega Muskie Roundup Extravaganza Spectacular Nathan Leavitt July 8, 2013 Fish Stories, Popular 14 Comments Pardon the extra load time on this post...it just happens to be a Mega Muskie Roundup Extravaganza Spectacular of the Century - which obviously contains a gratuitous amount of muskie porn....
9.7 Smith Techlite & Polarchromic Review Nathan Leavitt June 20, 2013 Gear Reviews 6 Comments Are you ever out on the water all freaking day long? Hopefully you are! Even if you're not you've probably fished during the day and lingered around until it starts to get dark. In years past I often found...
8.9 Smith Chief Sunglasses Review Nathan Leavitt June 20, 2013 Gear Reviews Spoiler alert! I love these glasses. I'm specifically talking about the Smith Chief with the Amber Polarchromic lenses. Most of that is due to the amazing optics and optimal fish viewing ability that the...
Attack from Above & the Undercover Submarine Nathan Leavitt November 1, 2012 One-Hit Wonders 8 Comments 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...
Night Fishing Tips Nathan Leavitt October 2, 2012 Fly Fishing Tips & Tricks 30 Comments 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...
Fishies and Freshies Nathan Leavitt August 29, 2012 Fish Stories, OSF Video Edits 2 Comments So when I first started blogging I had a blog called "Fishies and Freshies" cause back then skiing and fly fishing were about 50/50 for me as far as stoke level. Turns out that about the time that I started...
A Welcomed Wet Wade Nathan Leavitt August 6, 2012 Fish Stories 8 Comments I'm not a photographer - I'm a fishing addict. I'm also pretty obsessed with trout. They're beautiful. It has; however, started to bug me a little when I get back from trips and all I have is a bunch of fish...
No Refunds Stillwater Fishing Nathan Leavitt July 9, 2012 Fish Stories, OSF Video Edits, Popular 2 5 Comments Blitz trip. Again. I think this was the gnarliest one we've taken this year so far, but you gotta pay your dues right? Sometimes it pays off and sometimes it doesn't. We had a little of both but without a...
Roadtrippin’ Ch.2: wiggywiggywoo Nathan Leavitt June 26, 2012 Fish Stories 5 Comments I don't even recall when we arrived at our ultimate destination in Wyoming. It was late. I swear we get dumber and dumber the more we fish together....
Roadtrippin’ Ch. 1: Bonneville Cutts Nathan Leavitt June 25, 2012 Fish Stories 3 Comments We're retarded. We had a destination in mind but it was going to be a decent drive to get there. We also had another spot that we've been wanting to fish for some time now but it was nowhere close to our final...
The Best Cast of My Life Nathan Leavitt June 4, 2012 Memorable Fish, Popular 26 Comments Brown trout are my favorite - especially big brown trout! They're just plain bad! They're the fish that are inhabiting that deep dark hole that you just know holds the fish that your dreams (and nightmares)...
Fishing with the Lady Nathan Leavitt May 29, 2012 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish 10 Comments I'm on a mission to get my wife hooked on fly fishing. When we met we were both really into shredding the gnar but the way I look at it is that when we're old and feeble we can still travel and hit the water...