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May Fly of the Month: Jean Claude Van Damsel
As our stillwaters heat up later in May and through the month of June, nature's original hula dancers, the damsel nymphs get active and become readily available for foraging fish....
May Fly of the Month: Jean Claude Van Damsel
As our stillwaters heat up later in May and through the month of June, nature's original hula dancers, the damsel nymphs get active and become readily available for foraging fish....

Fly Fishing Report: May 2018
We’ve been fortunate experience a nice long string of warm days the last several weeks. Having lived a lifetime in western Washington, it’s easy to forget how essential a little...
Fly Fishing Report: May 2018
We’ve been fortunate experience a nice long string of warm days the last several weeks. Having lived a lifetime in western Washington, it’s easy to forget how essential a little...

April Fly of the Month: Black Red Butt Chironomid
Spring is no doubt one of the best times to fish chironomid patterns from ice out and well into the dog days of summer on higher elevation stillwaters. While the...
April Fly of the Month: Black Red Butt Chironomid
Spring is no doubt one of the best times to fish chironomid patterns from ice out and well into the dog days of summer on higher elevation stillwaters. While the...

Fly Fishing Report: April 2018
Spring has sprung, at least some of the time. Then there are the odd days when you get pummeled with hail and wet snow while chasing early season bass on...
Fly Fishing Report: April 2018
Spring has sprung, at least some of the time. Then there are the odd days when you get pummeled with hail and wet snow while chasing early season bass on...

March Fly of the Month: Chumbody's Baby
Every spring, mind-blowing scads of juvenile salmon wriggle out of the gravel river bottom, and along with hundreds of thousands of their brethren and closest friends, make their way downstream...
March Fly of the Month: Chumbody's Baby
Every spring, mind-blowing scads of juvenile salmon wriggle out of the gravel river bottom, and along with hundreds of thousands of their brethren and closest friends, make their way downstream...

Fly Fishing Report: March 2018
Just when you begin to think spring is right around the corner, we get blanketed in wet snow and chilled by the frosty bite of a harsh north wind. Nonetheless,...
Fly Fishing Report: March 2018
Just when you begin to think spring is right around the corner, we get blanketed in wet snow and chilled by the frosty bite of a harsh north wind. Nonetheless,...