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Love and Connection
Ask north Idaho Spey anglers to describe what wild steelhead mean to them and you will get 100 rambling, mostly incoherent responses. But you will hear common themes: love and connection, unadulterated, unconditional, tough, infinite love and a longing for connection with the gamest fish in freshwater, not to mention the rivers and wild places…
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The True Cast – On Guides, Ghillies and the Great Ones
I now get asked, all the time, whether guides these days, on average, can stack up against the guides from a generation ago...
Twenty-some years ago, I wrote the book Castwork: Reflections of Fly-Fishing Guides and the American West with my cousin Andrew Steketee. It never got much commercial traction, but it did garner a cult following, and it got me discovered by Field & Stream. For all of you would-be authors out there, understand that a book…
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Tip – fly fishing for salmon and steelhead
These magical fish capture those who fish for them, certainly as soon as one is hooked and landed, but sometimes well before that. To help celebrate Snake Week this week, we bring you another Tom Rosenbauer video on some of the basics of salmon and steelhead and how to fish for them. He walks through…
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The True Cast – “Sporting Clays” with a Fly Rod
Autumn leaves… blown off the trees… covering the river surface… kind of a bummer if you want to go dry-fly fishing, right? Well, when life gives you lemons, make some lemonade. With fly fishing, there’s always an opportunity to learn something and practice. This happened a week ago or so as I was fishing the…
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Tip – How to fly fish with soft hackles
What is a soft hackle you ask? Simon Gawesworth from Far Bank teaches us one of his favorite ways to fish. Of course, there are many varieties and sizes of these flies, so he covers those. He then jumps into why and when you’d fish with soft hackles. And gear – gear can be as…
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Your next secret spot might be right under your nose
“He was right!” My friend Sam Dean exclaimed this as the 10-inch wild rainbow jumped around the small pool trying to throw Sam’s size 16 Copper John nymph, which it had mistaken for actual food. “He” was the guy who had told me a while back that a certain non-trout-looking creek was actually quite trout-y.…
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Tip – fly fishing in the wind
This time of year, storms often kick up excess wind, but just because it’s windy out doesn’t mean you have to stop fishing. Check out these tips from Tom Rosenbauer from Orvis on how to beat the wind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA7-JhfYCt4&list=PLEXZljM8NmhtGMQuVaaJ9TZq3SZY74R_5&index=1 Now get out there and enjoy some fall fishing!
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