While hobbling around on a gimp foot that I broke a few weeks ago, I haven’t been fishing as much as I generally do. Don’t feel too bad for me though. I’ve still been getting out there twice a week on ...
Under the general heading of "Know Before You Go," having at least some idea of how and where to catch carp will be of service prior to Saturday's Carpocalypse 2014. This is the one-day carp-only fly ...
In this edition of The Evening Hatch: • Until you've experienced the sight-fishing challenge of targeting feeding carp, or trying to stop a ten-pound specimen on a blistering run with a 6-weight fly ...
Chuck Atkins stood waist-deep in chilly water with a fly rod in hand as a predicament spread out before him–dozens of carp feeding vigorously near the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan. For a purist fly ...
A couple of weeks ago my buddy Paul Dubas and I were fishing the Tongue River and trying to connect on trout and smallmouth bass. Though we had some hits on streamers, neither Dubas nor I managed to ...
As strategy or prediction, the comment rang true. “I could stand around and watch fish all day,” Tom Walther said from the bank of the South Platte River in downtown Denver. And during a ...
About six months ago I shared how one outdoors enthusiast was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Gary Keisler, a self-employed salesman from Mount Pleasant, was tying flies and spending free ...
A couple years ago, I went fishing on the West Branch of the Delaware River at one of its less charming, but still very fishy, access points, the village of Deposit waste water treatment plant.
Fishing for carp and smallies on the Beaver Island flats is earning renown the world ’round. Our correspondent investigates, fly rod in hand. “Do you see it?” This is the seventh time my guide has ...