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Opening day was April 1 in NY state when I was a kid. This must have been ca. 1962 or 1963. Just this side of the wooded hill on the horizon was Callahan Creek, a headwater tributary of the Susquehanna river and a reliable source of a trout or two on opening day if you drifted a worm down into...

Like many trout fishermen, I suspect, I rarely target whitefish, but when I hook one I am usually pleased to connect with another one of our native fish species. it often leads to me to chase them for a while, if no one else is looking; one could say I'm a closet whitefish fisherman. I am...

I've caught a few browns in WA and quite a lot in ID and MT, but my most memorable brown trout fishing has been in Argentina.

I've encountered black bears when out fishing several times, but have never seen a grizzly in the wild (except from a car in Yellowstone). I did have what seemed like must have been a pretty close encounter a couple years ago in Montana fishing a small stream that meandered through thick...

Somewhere in Peru on a stream that drains into the Amazon.

Dogsnfish, That's a classic. The pale blue binding marks it as a first edition, first printing. Needless to say the binding didn't hold up well! I have a couple copies held together by duct tape. Subsequent printings were in a darker blue cloth and were much sturdier. With more than 1000 new...

Speaking from the perspective of someone who has struggled to define Pacific Northwest formally based on vegetation cohesiveness (see Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Ed., UW Press), we include all of Montana west of a line roughly extending from Henry's lake and Madison River, north past...

John Gierach wrote a funny story in one of his books about his attempt to raise chickens to produce his own feathers for fly tying. Needless to say, in the end he decided it made more sense to buy feathers!

Shad are open-water mass spawners; they don’t lay eggs in gravel. Shad filets are excellent eating and shad roe is considered a delicacy back east where there is still a commercial fishery in some places (e.g., the Potomac).

In our back woodlot during the Christmas snow.

Closer to home.

I call this spot “brook trout prison.” There’s a spring-fed pool and a “stream” winding through a sedge meadow, but when it gets to where it breaks over a bedrock berm it is dry by midsummer. Fat, feisty brookies trapped, but eager to play.

Rio Malleo, Argentina

Big fish are great, whether it’s Jurassic Lake or Tierra de Fuego, but when the cost of the lodge is ca. 1 K per day on top of the travel, it’s out of my price range and probably that of most on this forum. However, I have done DIY Patagonia fishing trips several times now where the in-country...