I’m happily settled with Midnight Sun Trophy Pike Lodge on the Yukon River drainage here in Alaska. All of my small group of friends, Sammy Vigneri, Steve Fitzsimons and Therese Rappazini made it to Anchorage last night without hassle. This is a hosted trip I’m running for Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures. Early this morning … Read more
Time is flying. I got home last Friday from two weeks of projects with a week to kill and catch up on things. It seemed like I had tons of time to spare. But no, the week whipped by and here I am at the Salt Lake Airport waiting for a flight to Anchorage, Alaska. … Read more
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
July 26-29, 2021 It’s been since 2019 that Granny and I made our way to our favorite small stream. A stream full of cutthroats. A place where I taught my nieces to fly fish over the last decade. This weekend we met my brother and his family, including nieces Sammy and Montana (all grown up … Read more
It’s been a long time since I was a “cover boy” on a big time magazine but I made the front of the current issue of Fishing & Travel Magazine. Fishing & Travel is the English version of Voyages de Peche (VDP), a magazine from France that circulates throughout Europe and the rest of the … Read more
Tom Bie left for home after fishing last night. Boots and I had a beer at camp then called it a day. It as a long one and good one with a few nice fish. This morning we got up early again and the two of us fished one of the slower sections of the … Read more
Yesterday, Boots Allen, Tom Bie and I were worn out from the demands of summer and we took our fishing easy. Because of our lackluster approach, we only caught one fish. There would be no dillydallying today. While the guys each slept in their trucks last night, I found a comfy spot on the … Read more
Boots Allen picked me up at my house at 9:15 AM. We loaded three days worth of gear and drove to Swan Valley where we met another friend Tom Bie. Boots has been on the blog many times. He’s a 3rd generation fishing guide here in the Tetons. This is a first time on the … Read more