Short Casts
GETTING ORGANIZIZED
Every year about this time I quit. I can’t possibly tie another fly unless I…
The Last Best Fly?
With Northwest steelhead runs falling to record lows this year, and rivers now closed to…
Good Enough?
Still, as with a shelf full of common yet capable hand planes, I glance at…
Kokanee
by Scott Sadil If you’re out and about this fall in the American West, don’t…
October Caddis
I recall selling a piece to Gray’s years ago, and then being told by the…
Water Helps
This spring I was sitting in on one of those weird Zoom gatherings, trying to…
Be Safe
A friend of mine guiding this summer in Alaska just reported that he’s come down…
Joe’s Grilled Salmon
The best book I know of for preparing fish of any kind is Salmon, by…
Behind You!
We were a long way from anywhere, camped on a gravel bar alongside a deep…
Summer Crash
Latest reckonings show that only 25,000 summer-run Columbia River basin steelhead have passed Bonneville Dam,…
Sense of Place
It usually starts with maps. Somebody mentions a piece of water, a drainage, an obscure…
Left or Right?
I stop in at the local fly shop, in need of backing on a new…Gray's Sporting Properties
