Evacuation orders were in effect for many residents adjacent the wildfire, which, due to hot weather, high winds, a century of forest mismanagement, and questionable decision-making on part of the incident commander, had metastasized into a full blown conflagration.   Though my home was not at risk, my respiratory system sure was, and with my…

My brother-in-law had just taken the oars when we rounded a bend and approached another boat to find a guide eddied out and re-tying two octogenarian’s dry/dropper rigs. Right in front of their boat my line went tight and a deep bend in the rod ensued. The guide in me was sympathetic for the poor…

There are still some regions where a guy with a fly rod is an anomaly. The locals are surprised, nearly shocked, when a goofball outsider “limp wristing” actually finds success. Among my favorite fly fishing destinations is a little known town in Wisconsin, adjacent a well-known town famous for a particular member of the Esox genus…