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Voices from the River: Family tradition
By Josh Duplechian This is hands down the coldest my feet have ever been. Honestly. Remind me, why am I here again? Yes, that’s right for the annual sufferfest tradition we call fishing for steelhead off of Lake Erie. Sliding out of the warmth of the local breakfast joint and into our snow-filled parking spot,…
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Voices from the River: Find the fish, win a fly reel
by Kirk Deeter I caught three fish in this water, within 10 minutes after I snapped the above photo. But, I’m not going to tell you where or how I did it. That’s a riddle for you to crack. And the person who best retraces my footsteps (or offers a better strategy!) is going to…
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Voices from the River: Old Blue
by Chris Hunt It was bright blue when I first crawled into it as a 12-year-old kid. Its paper-thin nylon hardly seemed sturdy enough to stop a breath of wind, let alone protect its occupants from whatever it was that wandered the woods at night. That wispy little barrier, though, provided real emotional security for…
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Voices from the River: This is why we do it
by Chris Hunt My hands are cold. The wool mittens, even with the little flap that covers my fingers when I'm not using them to tie tippet to the leader or a fly to the tippet, just aren't cutting it today. There's absolutely no reason for me to be here, knee deep i n water…
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Voices from the River: An Idaho solution
Redfish Lake, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho. Photo by Chris Hunt by Chris Hunt I admit it. I'm biased. I love my home state of Idaho. Home to sprawling sage-brush seas, sky-piercing mountains, old-growth cedar and spruce forests and some of the best trout water on the planet, it's no accident that I arrived here some…
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