Are You Willing To Listen?
Contributed by Matt Sutton Spring 2016 hit me like no other, there was no reason for it. The fishing bug had got me too, maybe it was the Saturday morning fishing shows or maybe it was the chatter at work … Read More
Taking My “Rawhide” Fishing
My significant other and I were at our favorite pub having a libation a couple of nights back when I saw an old acquaintance come through the door. I immediately went to the highest DefCon level. Hunkering down as low … Read More
One Fish Before Growing Up
The AM radio crackled in from Boise as the steam from the coffee rose into the predawn hues of blues and grays that painted the inside of the cab of my old 56 Chevy pickup. River sounds were mixing with … Read More
A Steelhead To Never Forget
Macks Canyon is literally at the end of the road. It is also the place where I typically started my steelhead seasons on The Deschutes. The road to the campground was a tire eater consisting of dust and the sharpest … Read More
Fishing Stories And Little Black Books
Prologue-Truth In Fishing Stories My father has several little black books with an entry for every steelhead he has caught since the late 1950’s. These little knickknacks of a passed, more personal era of advertising have the names of auto … Read More
Avery’s Dad And The Silver-Gray Ribbon
Infinitely oblique syllogisms determined Avery Simmon’s every moment that he spent with a fly rod in his hand. He was stalwart in following the fly fishing catechism that had been drilled into him during a much slower, easy decade when … Read More