I had a note from a fellow angler in South Africa asking abut Maxima Chameleon. It’s a question I get often, so I thought I’d share the answer with everyone. Hi Gary Hope you and your family are doing ok. We, in South Africa are in the grip of winter. Will be doing some lake […]
My friend, Henry Kanemoto, sent along this URL to a photo of a truly huge lake trout. It’s truly an astounding giant of a laker. Have a look. www.flickr.com/photos/fishasart/6657219345/in/photostream
For those who don’t know the Smith, it is central Montana river that has restricted (permit by drawing) floating access. It’s a great stream to fish because of its scenic canyon nature and its good populations of browns, rainbows, and whitefish. They all seem eager to take a dry fly. Recently, our friends Gary and […]
It’s not easy to do, this trout fishing in Holland. There is only one place in Holland with trout in it–Oost Voorne Lake. As Theo Bakelaar relates in a recent email, it it very hard to catch fish there because the lake is so large and the total number of fish is few. None the […]
I just had a note from my old pal, John Beth. Seems he was fishing a local spring creek and located a huge rainbow. IHe eventually got it to take his fly but missed it on the hook up. Later he spotted it with a smaller fish. Of course the smaller fish took the fly, […]
Steve Rudzinski sent me a couple of photos that he took of a nice 22-inch plus rainbow from Goodwin Lake in central California (see link at right). Steve and I fished together at Goodwin Lake in February, when he also took a number of big rainbows, fishing deep with one of Denny Rickard’s orange Seal […]
It has always been a great piece of water. It’s especially known for its Trico hatches and runs for big rainbows in the spring. It has been renamed the Charlie Meyers State Wildlife Area after my old friend who wrote for the Denver Post, but to most it is still the “Dream Stream.” It’s the […]
Have you every had one of those trips where you tied all the flies and everyone else caught all the fish on those flies? Well, my old friend, Walt Mueller, “The Otter,” was fishing the South Fork and Middle Fork of the Clearwater recently, and fell victim to this nasty turn of events. Here are […]
I had a great note from my friend, Ed Mueller, a.k.a. the Otter. He’s the “Otter” of Otter’s Eggs. Very interesting, indeed: Gary: Got back a week ago from the Clearwater. Conditions were tough- very low water, and super clear. Our guide for 2 days told us the clearest he has seen it in 18 […]
I recently received a very kind note from Tony Watson, who lives in Africa. In it he makes reference to fishing for tiger fish in the Okavango Delta, So I’ve included a couple of photos of fish from that area. He says, Dear Mr. Borger, Just a short note to say how much I enjoy […]