Giant Salmon Flies Hit the Canyon!

We had another good fishing trip on the South Fork of the Snake, but the sun may have fried my brain, along with the lack of sleep that comes from a fly by night trip like this.  Obviously something has affected me.  I am usually not quite this “good” at poetryJ.  Read about Tom’s perspective [...]

A Good Day of Fishing is Better Than…

Fishing the Owyhee River   There is an old saying I have seen plastered across bumper stickers and coffee cups, and heard countless times when I return from a fishing trip where I received the big skunk.  “Well a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.”  Ok that is fine and [...]

Mr. Bleep

When Tom posted a story and link regarding Muskie fishing a while back it reminded me of my own brush with a Muskie. The following “true” story is actually only about one percent true, just enough to make you wonder what is real and what is not. The names have all been changed including the [...]

Dottie is Dead

I thought it was worth a mention here. Looks like Dottie, the big Dixon Lake bass that has created quite a stir over the years in the world of bass fishing world record chasers, has passed on due to natural causes.  She was spawning out right up to the end so maybe some of her [...]

Rediscovering and Relearning the Owyhee River

A welcome sight, a fish putting the bend to the old 5 weight. Oregon’s Owyhee River has been in my backyard for most of my life.  I grew up in Vale, Oregon within an easy 45 minute drive of the river and now live about an hour away in Caldwell, Idaho.  I used to fish [...]

The “Swan Lake” Swan Dive

Often the funniest stories from our experiences come from incidents that at the time they are happening do not seem funny at all. In fact they can seem downright frightening, or just plain embarrassing at the time. Only later can we look back and have a good laugh once our adrenal gland has stopped pumping [...]

A Float Down Memory Lane

South Fork of the Snake River I have a favorite river that I will make sure I get to every year for a little fishing. The place is the South Fork of the Snake River about 45 minutes East of Idaho Falls, Idaho. There is a stretch of river there known as “The Canyon.” It [...]

O’fer Two

The Main Salmon River Canyon O’fer: In terms of fly fishing for steelhead o’fer refers to an individual who has never caught a steelhead or has not caught one in a long time. As I do more and more research and peruse fly fishing forums and websites for information regarding fly fishing for steelhead I [...]

Episode One, The Persuit of Steel

As I stood there in the cold water, casting across a perfect run, I could just feel the anticipation building. This was it. This water had to yield something. It looked too good not to. As my fly swung in a perfect arc, it flowed across a slightly submerged boulder and suddenly I felt the [...]

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