Saturday was rough, Sunday was as good as it gets!   Welcome to fishing.   It’s all about the averages.   It was Father’s Day today, so I slept in.   I hit a local stream at 10:00 and nymphed for two hours.   I educated more than 20 fish in a short two hours…

What was the ‘buzz’ this weekend?   Buzz Cut Narly!!  The guides did not come up with this, past clients who we recently shared an assortment of flies with gave us that report.   Rusty, who Monte had out on Saturday morning, flagged me down on the road late Sunday morning.  He said he ‘killed…

Some much needed rain arrived this week, a couple of slow half inch rains.   Not near enough to say we are recovered, but enough to buy us a few more weeks.   The streams are in good condition, but certainly different than a year ago.   Expect to find fish in all the normal…

Despite temps in the mid-eighties today, the lesson for today was not weather related, but ‘crappy casts’.   Cast all of your line out (every time)!   Know where your fly is going to land (every time)!  Don’t hope or guess where it will land, know where it will land.   Don’t guess how much…

The snow has left us, but the cold remains.  From temps in the mid 80’s 14 days ago to freezing temps the last few nights indicates that the one thing even more unpredictable than fishing, is the weather.   Surprisingly, the weather has not dampened my enthusiasm for being on the water and it has not deterred…

Snow is on its way to NE as I speak. A quick check of the radar confirmed that we appear to be in the middle of a 4” to 8” snowfall band. I hope the temperatures are cold enough so that it is all snow. A half a foot of snow will take a few…