First Fire of 2016 Throws Wrinkle into Nunya Trip

Flexibility is a crucial mindset to have if you fish.  Whether it be while traveling 8,000 miles from home or at home, things can happen that mess up an original plan.  You can freak out and waste your time sulking or make a change in plan and do the best you can. ...

Out Smarted by the Huge Carp of Blackfoot

Everything seemed right before I left Victor to meet my friend Tom Hansen for a day trip of fly fishing for mirror carp on Blackfoot Reservoir.  The forecast had sunshine, light winds and temperatures in the 80°s, absolutely ideal carp conditions.  When we arrived at...

Annual Ladies Day on the Bryant River

I needed a tranquil day on a river after my grueling twenty Cliff Fly Box art weekend.  Was taking the girls on the Bryant River really the relaxing answer?  Probably not exactly, but nonetheless, my annual ladies day on the river with Granny, Jessica Chitwood and Pam...

A Man of the All-Nighters

Not sure why but when I have a massive assignment I can’t go a minute without thinking about it.  It’s in my DNA.  About a week ago I took on an unfathomable task of decorating twenty Cliff Bugger Beast Fly Boxes with my Sharpie art for the Sweetwater River...

Camera Time and Cutthroats

Plans to fish the Rizzo today with my FlyCastaway pals from South Africa cancelled.  To make up for it arapaima king Tim Brune and I did a short day on the technical dry fly water of the Rizzo with another South African friend, Craig Richardson.  Craig is a...