Eat More Brook Trout Derek Olthuis October 11, 2012 Fish Stories, Popular 7 Comments 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...
Grayling Fishing in the Uintas Grant Bench August 13, 2012 Fish Stories 6 Comments In between guide trips I had a day off to do some hiking and fishing for grayling in the mountains of Utah. Meanwhile, my wife was back home coordinating the assembly and packaging of 200k meals for starving...
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...
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...
Jurassic Lake! Derek Olthuis April 16, 2012 Fish Stories 9 Comments It was Super bowl Sunday...at least to me. Today I would get to see Argentina's fabled Jurassic Lake and find out if it was all I had imagined it to be.  Stories, fishing reports and videos: today I would...
Rio Barrancoso and Laguna Verde Derek Olthuis April 3, 2012 Fish Stories 7 Comments Remote, way out there, untouched, in the middle-of-nowhere: Jurassic Lake Argentina. It seems long dirt roads to get to prime fishing locations were my forte while traveling Argentina. Each and every dirt road...
My First Patagonian Brown Trout Derek Olthuis March 15, 2012 Fish Stories, One-Hit Wonders 6 Comments I tugged on my waders and thought, "isn't it summer here in Argentina?" It was cold and had been snowing as the guide picked me up from my hotel. I was in Tierra del Fuego and the southern most city in the...
Fall Boulder Mountain Fishing Derek Olthuis October 5, 2011 Fish Stories 6 Comments Long drives and simple food seem to be the weekend ritual for me recently. I got word from a good friend of mine that he and some friends were heading to the Boulders to do some fall Boulder Mountain...
Boulder Mountain Brook Trout Nathan Leavitt August 10, 2011 Fish Stories, Popular 2 6 Comments Speaking of brookies...WARNING!!! This post may or may not include lots of fish porn. In light of Derek's brook trout action I thought I'd post up some old brookie love a little closer to home....
Big Brook Trout! Derek Olthuis August 9, 2011 Fish Stories 6 Comments Back at it again! I met up with a few friends and headed out to a lake known for big brook trout. Let's just state char might be the most amazing fish ever... just saying. There is just something about...
Montana Grayling, Brookies, and Pike! Oh my! Derek Olthuis July 25, 2011 Fish Stories 2 Comments Things have been, well crazy here but, I had the opportunity to head up to Montana for the week of July 4th. Water has been incredibly high due to massive amounts of snow and almost all the rivers in...
Working for a Big Bow Derek Olthuis June 25, 2011 One-Hit Wonders 1 Comment Things have been crazy for us at OSF. We've appreciated the emails and for the continued feedback. Posts won't be as numerous as we'd like over the next couple months but we promise to make up for it!!...
Second Chance Tiger Trout Nathan Leavitt November 20, 2010 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish, One-Hit Wonders 5 Comments The ice would be coming soon and we visited our favorite local stillwater for some tiger trout fishing. I really enjoy fishing for these fish. At this lake it's especially fun to tease them as they cruise...
My First Trip to Pyramid Lake Nathan Leavitt December 21, 2009 Fish Stories I'm usually playing catch up and posting on old trips but I thought I'd switch things up and add a recent post about my recent days at the ever so popular Pyramid Lake, NV....
Sight-Fished Colorado Cutthroat Nathan Leavitt November 6, 2009 One-Hit Wonders My wife and I were camping to celebrate my birthday. I spent the evening sight fishing to cruising fish and ended up getting into a nice Colorado Cutthroat....
Up North: Epic End to an Epic Trip Nathan Leavitt July 25, 2009 Fish Stories After a week of pure sweetness we were down to our last day. We traveled back to "Jurassic Lake" - the place that had shown me the biggest rainbow trout of my life. I was stoked....
Up North: Evasive Gold Nathan Leavitt July 23, 2009 Fish Stories 1 Comment Time was limited, but we both wanted to get up and hopefully get into some golden trout. We drove to the trailhead and started our hike to a lake that holds some good size goldens....
Up North: Epic Start to an Epic Trip Nathan Leavitt July 20, 2009 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish 5 Comments My infatuation with bull trout started a little over a year ago. A mysterious fish that grows to immense size. They inhabit pure waters in wild places. Besides their size and the beautiful places where they're...
Good Times with Good Buddies Nathan Leavitt May 2, 2009 Fish Stories 1 Comment Already this year we'd put some time into fishing this challenging water. Derek and I are addicted. I haven't spent too much time fishing stillwater and we're determined to figure out all the ins and outs...
Thanksgiving Tiger Hunt: Day 2 Nathan Leavitt November 29, 2008 Fish Stories 2 Comments So Derek and I headed up for another morning and continued our search of some big guys. Let me just sum up the day: Derek got some sweet sweet lovin'....