Flies & Lies

Sports

High, fast and deep

Adjusting to fish at record water levels

July 1, 2023

Sports

Sometimes ya just gotta laugh

Fishing, and failing, in Belize

May 5, 2023

Sports

Staying safe and dry

on fishing after a record snow pack

March 31, 2023

Sports

200 and counting

Looking back on 200 columns I feel sure it’s hard for you to imagine a columnist being without words. Yet,…

February 3, 2023

Outdoors

Tie one on

advice to begin tying flies

January 6, 2023

Flies & Lies

There’s more to fly fishing than catching

getting out can be rewarding

September 2, 2022

Sports

Articulation makes a good fly

Experimenting and finding realistic movements while fly fishing

August 5, 2022

Flies & Lies

Hooked on no hook

A fly fishing experiment with the hooks cut off

July 1, 2022

Flies & Lies

A return to civility and bonefish

Bahamas starting to recover from Hurricane Dorian

June 1, 2022

Sports

Catching carp in the Arizona canal

fishing in the Phoenix metro aided by a guide

March 4, 2022

Sports

Tips for a first-time buyer

Deciding where you’ll fly-fish is a good first step Let’s say someone near and dear to you gave you a…

February 4, 2022

Sports

It was a good Christmas

Holidays and young generations offer hope for the future

December 31, 2021

Sports

Receiving and giving

A fly fisherman reflects on the past year

December 4, 2021

Sports

Hidden in plain sight

gravel pits now filled with trout

November 5, 2021

Flies & Lies

Old friends meeting my new friend

My balance has become suspect, and my mental age sometimes has me wandering off. As always, I followed SWMBO’s advice…

August 1, 2020

Flies & Lies

Solutions for high water

It is now May, and the ski area is still open. Some of the lakes are still iced over, and…

May 3, 2019

Flies & Lies

The White River, in Arkansas

Here-to-fore, this group has always fly fished in the mountains of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. The group thought…

March 29, 2019

Flies & Lies

It’s a new year … now what?

We don’t have world peace, hunger is still around, happy political parties are still a fiction, I think Denver fell…

January 4, 2019

Flies & Lies

What I want for Christmas

Since I have plenty of fly rods, and reels to match, I’m not going to ask for those, So, first…

December 7, 2018

Flies & Lies

I’m still thankful

There’s turkey and all the fixins; friends and family to share it with; an opportunity to serve meals to those…

November 2, 2018

Flies & Lies

I know stuff about fly fishing

Hopefully my new hip will give me some much needed increased mobility. Even if it doesn’t, I have become aware…

October 5, 2018

Flies & Lies

The MMM fly

But, on a slow day, she may open every box in her vest and quietly say “MMM”. In most cases,…

August 31, 2018

Flies & Lies

The Brotherhood of the Jungle Cock

Joe Brooks was one of the pioneers of modern-day fly fishing, and the hour and a half program seemed to…

August 3, 2018

Flies & Lies

Life, lemons and Echo Reservoir

Recently, when the San Juan National Forest was closed because the forest fire, I was left with the lemon choice.…

July 6, 2018