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The True Cast – Make Time for a Moment of Trout Fishing Zen
I want you to close your eyes, breathe deeply, relax and envision something. (After you’re through reading this, of course, but here’s the basic screenplay for the movie you’re about to play in your mind…) It’s a gorgeous day, and you’re soaking it all in. The birds are chirping; there’s a thin layer of clouds…
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The True Cast – Let’s Do More to Empower the Do-It-Yourself Angler
I don’t ask for much, but if I could make one wish for next year, it would be that more companies and organizations in fishing do more to empower do-it-yourself anglers. I actually think the future of the sport might depend on that. I’m not picking on guides. Goodness knows I like guides, was a…
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The True Cast – Keep the faith: Everything happens for a reason…
Over 25 years ago, I was nearly broke. My loving, supportive wife and I had moved to Colorado from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to chase a dream of me becoming an outdoor writer. After a few years, although I’d knocked out a couple books and sold some stories here and there, that wasn’t exactly paying the bills.…
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The True Cast – The Best Teachers in Trout Fishing…
My favorite quote of all time is by Will Rogers: “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” I think that applies to many things in life, even trout fishing. When I program myself to fish the same way—use the same flies, the same rig, the same…
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The True Cast – On Guides, Ghillies and the Great Ones
I now get asked, all the time, whether guides these days, on average, can stack up against the guides from a generation ago...
Twenty-some years ago, I wrote the book Castwork: Reflections of Fly-Fishing Guides and the American West with my cousin Andrew Steketee. It never got much commercial traction, but it did garner a cult following, and it got me discovered by Field & Stream. For all of you would-be authors out there, understand that a book…
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The True Cast – “Sporting Clays” with a Fly Rod
Autumn leaves… blown off the trees… covering the river surface… kind of a bummer if you want to go dry-fly fishing, right? Well, when life gives you lemons, make some lemonade. With fly fishing, there’s always an opportunity to learn something and practice. This happened a week ago or so as I was fishing the…
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The True Cast – What do you think spooks trout the most?
Like many anglers, I often found myself wondering what the fish were actually doing beneath the surface. Eventually, my curiosity got the better of me. I got some SCUBA gear, dove into the North Fork of the South Platte River in Colorado and hung out with the trout to watch and learn what was really…
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