November 25, 2018
Winter light. I post-holed through the the ice, where the slough crossed the trail for the last ten yards, before heading up the hill. At...
Jay Walden
Nov 25, 2018
November 18, 2018
Somethings just bear repeating, and the following issue that I referenced a few weeks back, falls into that category. I'm talking about...
Jay Walden
Nov 19, 2018
November 11, 2018
More so than any other behavior of fish, the single one you are most likely to witness, is that of the emerger take. This unmistakable...
Jay Walden
Nov 11, 2018
November 4, 2018
First of all, I'm not that kind of guy—the kid of guy that goes out there and then comes home from the river and spends and...
Jay Walden
Nov 4, 2018
October 28, 2018
The Toughest Fish in the World. Recently, while encountering and catching a number of fish rising to small midges, my eye was drawn to a...
Jay Walden
Oct 28, 2018
October 21, 2018
The same, only different. I can't think of a single river (and I've fished a lot of them) that undergoes so many changes on a regular...
Jay Walden
Oct 21, 2018
October 14, 2018
More cowbell! Working in a fly shop on one of America's most popular trout streams, I am am often presented with that age old dilemma...
Jay Walden
Oct 14, 2018
October 7, 2018
The Ghost of the Upper Flats. Since we are approaching Halloween, I thought I'd entertain you with a good old fashioned ghost story....
Jay Walden
Oct 7, 2018
September 30, 2018
Livin' out here, you try to always keep two of everything you need to stay alive, but occasionally you're gonna have to make that dreaded...
Jay Walden
Sep 30, 2018
September 23, 2018
"If you're gonna tell a story, come at it with some attitude man."—Miles Davis. For those of you that read this column on a weekly...
Jay Walden
Sep 23, 2018