Much as we’d all like to be casting $1,800 varnished masterpieces, there are a whole lot of rods people can get a hold of without taking out a third mortgage loan. Some are perfectly suitable for delicate trout fishing, while others would feel more comfortable in an urban industrial park, or i...

If you still have a few bucks around, I’m certain there are deals to be had. If you don’t, there’s no better time to take extra-special care of your gems. I’ve always been the type to give my rods a quick wipe-down after use; if they’re saltwater jobs, a warm, wet rag w...

Diehard fly-fishers already know this First, you mortgage your life for a collection of very expensive gear. Before you’ve gotten any return on your investment, you get all your friends involved and they buy sloughs of pricey rods and reels. They soon find the sport is a lot more difficult tha...

Started off chasing dinks, and still rolling! I guess it’s my dirty little secret - I haven’t been trout fishing all that long. I held my first fly rod when I was maybe five or six (a bamboo something) and remember catching plenty of bream out of a South Florida canal that day. I was cer...

6/26 The beaver dam in Lair of the Bear park had held the water flow to a steady 44 CFS for almost two weeks.  A steady flow like this for Bear Creek should mean excellent fishing.  Throwing my gear in the car, I headed out for the Creek.  Arriving at the park about 9:30, I spott...

3/1/08 The morning of Saturday March 1 was one of those Colorado days where the weather was trying to make up its mind to be warm or not.  A gray overcast covered most of the Denver metro area.  But the weather gurus had promised a day in the high 60’s or low 70’s air temperatu...