

TYING FOR SPRING
To be completely honest, I often put the fly rod down and throw a spinnerbait when the water is higher than usual, and with any...


FIRST CAST MUSKY
I got to the put-in earlier than I needed to. Christmas brought with it a blast of arctic air that nearly had the river on its knees....


MISTLETOE HUNTING
Out of habit, I suppose, my feet found the quiet spots. The spots hard, bare, frozen, and/or vacant of the crisp, tattletale leaves of...


FOGGY MORNING CANNIBALISM
The big rivers are blown out. Hurricane rain from whoever-we’re-up-to-now flooded the watershed, and it’s looking like slow mornings and...


THE CAST & BLAST--RULES OF THE RIVER
If October is a month of transition, November is the month when we embrace the new season. Squirrels have been legal game for two months....