Book Review: "Fly Fishing West Yellowstone: A History and Guide"
THIS WEEK Robert DeMott reviews the book Fly Fishing West Yellowstone: A History and Guideby Bruce Staples and Bob Jacklin. "Ten years in process, Fly Fishing West Yellowstone is the result of energetic research in print sources, photograph archives, and especially numerous personal interviews with principal movers and shakers."
Greg Thomas discovers powerful fish and spectacular Pacific Northwest scenery just out the door at Black Bear Lodge. "In the end, we can’t say enough about the upper Columbia’s rainbow trout," Greg writes. "They are bug-oriented, they feed actively on the surface, and they are as strong as any rainbows we’ve ever encountered."
In this week's tying video Tim Flagler shows us how to build a better Bugger. "I’m pretty picky when it comes to the look so I’ll choose a single, fluffy feather and pull it free from the rest," Tim says." I don’t like Woolly Buggers with stringy tails."
“Watch good friend Pete Corbett throw long leaders to large brown trout, rainbow trout, and cutthroat trout during Montana’s spring PMD hatch. It really doesn’t get much better than this.” Watch here...
"I’ve drifted and twitched a size 18 nymph eight feet down to move smallmouths that refused all else. It was around the time I first got serious—if, in fact, fishing is ever supposed to be serious—about understanding river smallmouth bass."
