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            This story opens with the main character, Marshall Tate, scanning his new creation, a spring creek that Marshall built by digging out a flow of groundwater from a piece of land he’s babysitting for his rich and supposedly... Read more

Time again for wondering what in our store I would want to find under the tree this year.  It's too much to put down everything I would want - and if I had it all, so much of my daydreaming time would have to be put to better use - so I'll just note several items that I know will make the... Read more

It's the annual argument, should we fish for brown trout while they are in the throes of reproductive passion?  Some say we should (not out of necessity but fun), for when else are gorgeous monster browns so vulnerable to being caught, or for that matter, even seen outside of their... Read more

Legend tells of a legendary warrior, whose Kung Fu skills were the stuff of legend.  He traveled the land in search of worthy foes.  - Kung Fu Panda You have a four year old boy, you watch a lot of movies over and over again.  This one is my son Gus' current favorite, and it's... Read more

Bays.  Rainbow.  Nest.  Now. Midges. Eagle.  Big. Unscramble. Read more

Earlier this week, a dude came in and told one of our customers that he, "caught a german brown like about this big."  The dude, pantomiming a fly cast as he described the event, was using an elk hair caddis with a little green dubbing on the butt.  The fly, he said, had to have... Read more

I recently got back from Alaska, where I spent a blissful six days fishing for my favorite fish in the world.  I don't have the space, time, or writing skills to express why native rainbows send me over the edge, so I won't even try.  Suffice it to say that my fisherman's heaven lies... Read more

A friend of mine recently told me that our shop fishing report could stand a little standardization.  In other words, he said, in order to qualify as super fishing, a waterway should be giving up x numbers of fish per day with an x percentage of fish being over a length of x (corrected for the... Read more