by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Apr 9th, 2020
I got my first real look at Keen sandals when a buddy of mine from Sandpoint visited Idaho Falls one spring. Loren was a tireless Trout Unlimited volunteer, and a rabid angler—he’d fish for anything, anytime. So when I suggested we hit the Snake River in search of carp, he was enthusiastic.
“Do I need waders?” he asked, and then looked down at his feet. “Or will these do?”
by Hatch Magazine - Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2020
Do you have a hard time picking the right dry fly when you’re on the water? Are you more comfortable with nymphs? Or streamers? Do you struggle to tell a good dry fly pattern from a not-so-good dry fly pattern?
If you answered “yes” to any of those questions then you might want to participate in an upcoming first from The School of Trout.
by Johnny Carrol Sain - Monday, Apr 6th, 2020
Twice in my life I’ve accidentally stepped on a snake. Both encounters happened during my teen years.
The first time, I simply felt movement transmitted through my shoe’s sole, which sent a jolt through my soul, as I knew what creature was likely underfoot but had no idea of the species. It was a speckled kingsnake, who seemed no worse for wear with my foot on its back, and slithered off with my apologies.
by Tom Davis - Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2020
Here’s a subject line you don’t expect to see in your Inbox: SPAM Entrepreneurs from Indiana.
The thing is, I already knew the joke. The email, from my pal Pete Fleischman, referenced a story he’d related on a molasses-slow afternoon of smallmouth fishing on the Menominee River a few summers back—a story so preposterous on the face of it, and yet so obviously true, that as Pete was telling it my mouth fell open. It pretty much stayed that way for the duration of the tale, and for several disbelieving minutes after.
by Chris Hunt - Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2020
Some days, fishing is easy. Willing trout come readily to hand, unable to resist the bugs danced across the water with a fly rod.
Some days, it's labor. It can be fruitless, or it can be rewarding, but work is involved. Sometimes a lot of work.
God it was ugly.
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