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One glorious morning last April This morning around 7 a.m. before firing up my espresso machine I stopped at the window in our living room. It’s my daily ritual while blundering my way to the kitchen to look east down over The Elk Refuge (just north of Jackson, Wyoming)—and the…

THE PARANÁ EXPERIENCE: A COMBINATION TRIP Every year, from August until October, there is a massive migration of sábalo (dorado ́s favorite baitfish) along the Paraná River. This migration starts on the lower stretches of the Paraná river. Following the migration, dorado feed along the entire path. Taking into account…

Accommodations for the Sanibel Snook Fishing Trip Because the Sanibel snook fishing trip is so affordable, the first question I often receive from a new customer is about the accommodations. No worries, I am not likely to put my beloved customers up in a dump. Although, I have had customers…

Oregon Coastal steelhead trip with Water Time Outfitters: Dates are February 1st through the 8th 2020. The cost is $3950 person for seven nights and six days fishing. Join us on one of Oregon’s best steelhead rivers and stay in our comfortable lodge right on the banks of the river…

A Time to Look Back and Remember: By Jim Stenson Over the years, I have suffered a multitude of obstacles that prevented me from fishing. Like most dyed in the wool fishermen, I have endured forest fires, the occasional flood, too much snow, and sometimes too little snow and ice…

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “GETTYSBURG ADDRESS”  Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so…

  The Life and Times of Chris, Liz and Pickle Pipes as they travel the byways of America The Mongol hoards have been migrating across the sweeping landscapes of Mongolia, the dark corners of China and Europe, for thousands of years. Vast hoards of horsemen and warriors follow the seasons…

Live Long and Prosper my Friend The last thing you want people to see on your gravestone is “there were too many rivers and too many fish, and there was never enough time to chase them all. “I am going to live forever so that I won’t have any need for…

This article was originally published in The Contemporary Sportsman Magazine. To catch the right moment with your camera, you have to know how to read the situation that’s coming and guess what’s going to happen in the next few seconds because if you see it then it means you have…

This article was originally published in The Contemporary Sportsman Magazine. Glide, Oregon, North Umpqua River Light rain is falling, drumming a soft cadence on the roof. Wind rustles the branches of a tremendous douglas fir standing nearby. Beyond the window, the river thunders in its ledge-rock channel, forcing its way…

This article was originally published in The Contemporary Sportsman Magazine. On the Dangers of Angling: Setting the Record Straight  When one contemplates the most dangerous pass-times known to humankind, fishing is usually not the first thing that comes to mind. Quite the opposite, the term fly fishing generally conjures up…

This article previously ran in The Contemporary Sportsman Magazine. In early October, 2009, we met an old friend, Stu Apte, at his house in Tavernier, Florida. We were there to interview Stu about his newest book “Of Wind and Tides”. We hadn’t been to his house before, but as we…