August 23-27, 2021 I’m just back from instructing the Advanced Dry Fly Class for the School of Trout. My fellow teachers were school founder, Todd Tanner, along with friends John Juracek, Patrick McCabe, Tom Rosenbauer and Steve McFarland. Not to brag, but that’s pretty solid line up of instructors if I do say so myself. … Read more
August 17-21, 2021 Plain and simple, for the first time in the 12 years of writing about every single day of fishing, I’m so far behind in about everything in life that I’m going to give the shortest reports from this week’s fishing of all time. Don’t worry, I won’t make a habit of … Read more
August 11 & 12, 2021 August 11 I’ve never taken my boat to the carp flats of Blackfoot. Not in all the years of fishing here. But I haven’t run my little 3.3 Mercury in over a year and felt the need. And the weather looked amazing with blues skies and light winds. Yesterday morning … Read more
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you should remember my spectacular trip to the Rio Marié in September of 2019. Perhaps the finest peacock bass river of all the Amazon basin. The place where the largest peacock bass swim. If you never saw my reports from this trip its time to … Read more
August 5 A trip to the carp flats has been long overdue for me and my sidekick Tim Brune. In years past we fish mirror carp at least a day a week through July and August. But this year it’s been big projects and tons of company that prefer trout over carp. Yesterday Brune and … Read more