The Nam VOR 7126-6 Gr. Window 420-480 After a few years of traveling to swing flies for steelhead out west, I began looking for a 6-piece tr...

Dan's 40th Birthday Trip It can be tough to live up to the hype of something deemed legendary. For those that have read this blog since ...

Paradise Outside of permit, the salt species that I get most excited about are bonefish due to the sight fishing opportunities they provide ...

The Return... In 2009, Matt and Stacy went to an international job fair for teachers in Boston, Massachusetts. They left with multiple offer...

The sun sets in the Caribbean... I fondly remember a story from my childhood of an image my mother took well before I was born. She was into...

Old man, take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you... The old man made the walk every evening I was there. I never saw where he came fr...

8th Annual... The trophy was conceived well after the fact. After multiple years of jokingly contesting the largest "chub," during...

Steelhead Green Over the past few years, I've made a concerted effort to consistently put myself in places and moments that I want to ex...

A tale of two very different muskies... The hunt for musky on fly has become a glorified pursuit on social media and beyond. The term, ...

Largest musky of the year... Sometimes in order to make it happen, you have to go out of your way to put yourself in the moment. The opportu...

Desert Steel... The Deschutes is downright breathtaking. Every. Single. Time. Due to the natural beauty of the canyon, I've made a conce...

The only moment of sun over four days... In the winter of 1781-1782 Mt. Hood erupted sending hot pyroclastic flows and a lahar down the Sand...

Someday, I'll make it there, I swear... Out of reach. Privatized. Too expensive. Too exclusive. Not enough information. The sport of kin...

Great Lakes "Steelhead" One fish per day. If I were to average the number of steelhead I've landed on the swing over the last ...

A bald eagle in the coliseum of fall... Fall is my favorite time of the year to be on or near the water. After the hot & humid doldrums ...