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How to Hook Up in Serious Water
The Columbia, the Klamath, the Sacramento and other big rivers are deep, ponderous and powerful and the quest for monster fish can draw us to some of the most dangerous water. To present baits to them, you have to drop anchor. Do it right, and the hook sticks and you slide into position. Do it…
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A Multi-Species Perspective in Cook Inlet
A guy can see a long way when he’s in the third grade. At least that’s how our skipper remembered it. Mike Manns grew up on a farm in Indiana and he remembers telling the school librarian he was going to be a captain in Alaska. The kid had perspective. Today he makes his home…
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Worth the Climb
The high alpine lake fisherman can be characterized as one of two types: the camper/angler and the one who hiked there for the fishing. We suspect you fall into the latter camp and you will excuse us if we do not name names or provide GPS coordinates for the lakes we fished last year. Life…
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A Little Stream-side Etiquette is Needed on Local Waters
The sign read “Please wait to be seated.” And so we waited. Soon the maitre’d arrived and showed us to our seats. There were two of us at the table and two empty chairs. As we perused our menus, a waiter arrived to clear the extra place settings. A steady flow of dishes drifted by…
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Bend Oregon Fly Fishing Course
A new Orvis Casting Course at the Old Mill in Bend, Oregon employs a do-it-yourself golf-style approach to help casters put par, power and precision in their presentation. Top entertainers are in constant practice for the moment they take the stage. The same principle applies to fly-fishing. The time to learn how to make the…
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Build Your Own Trout Lake
Some people, when they have enough resources, move to fishing water. They build a cabin on their favorite lake or buy riverfront property. Many leave the landscaping in its natural state and use the time they would have spent mowing the lawn out in a rowboat or float tube. And they smile. But there’s another…
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Kids Can Tackle Fly Fishing with a Little Help
Fly fishing, for most of us, was something we watched others do first or read about in books. For some, it was the next level in a progression of becoming proficient in the disciplines of fishing. For others, it was a way to fish waters closed to other methods. For most of us it was…
Field Guide
Instructional
Instructional aspects of fishing can cover a lot of ground, so to keep the layout of the hunting and fishing articles simple, we separated each of the blocks into different types of fish. If you’re looking for instructional articles on a specific type of fish, you might want to head over to the main fishing articles page, and choose from those listed there. Otherwise, you can browse the fishing articles below!