By Cameron Larsen
Selecting the correct tapered leader and tippet for the type of fishing you are about to do is crucial. Nothing can spook fish quicker than an oversized tippet for the particular situation. On the other hand, and undersized tippet can result in the fly fisher losing their trophy before they even get a photo opportunity. We will start at the very basic of leader and tippet selection and then get more specific, and hopefully conclude with enough information so we’ll always have the proper leader and tippet for all upcoming fishing scenarios.
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By David Rose
Every season, millions of hunters take to the woods with renewed
enthusiasm and vigor. Unfortunately, many come away empty
handed, returning day after day to face similar results. It's
every hunter's biggest dilemma, but some have found the perfect
solution, and that is hunting by moon phase.
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A First Fly Fishing Experience
By Scott McDuffee
 God must be a watercolorist. The life-size canvas was a rugged granite canyon in southeast Oklahoma. He splashed scarlet amongst the gold and rose leaves of autumn. Brown tree branches, dappled in fall splendor, stretched out over the rushing, lurching rapids and occasionally let loose a brittle leave spinning down into the water. A mustard-colored leaf danced and swirled in the playful currents giving clues to the movement of food to the trout. The water was painted dark gray with a broad brush and spirited efficiency. The water was liquid energy pulsing over striated rocks and rough bottom. Twisting and folding currents were vividly painted white. On closer inspection - neither from the trails beside nor from the bridges above the river, but only by standing knee-deep in the current – the water became increasingly transparent though still deceptive. An artistic vista into an underwater world we barely know and do not truly understand. Watercolorist indeed.
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At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman
by John Gierach
These 20 magazine columns-most from Field & Stream-follow Gierach's year of outings in Northern Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Pennsylvania, and include some of his best strokes of style since Sex, Death and Flyfishing. Each travelogue plucks the required notes of Gierach's angling country song formula: a conversational, self-deprecating voice; good-humored reporting from the Eden streams of the West, appreciation for his local angling fraternity. Fishing-is-the-antidote-to-real-life is the axis of every Gierach collection, and several of these stories are convincing as well as entertaining. The angling reader already understands perfectly well the real reason Gierach is perched on the back of an ATV with a Labrador retriever riding through heavy May mud to reach remote ranchland ponds. As Gierach gets older, his reach into his angling hat is slower but he pulls out better rabbits: "If you wanted a fish that could sip white wine and discuss Italian poetry, you'd look for a trout. If you need a ditch dug, you'd hire a carp." The title reference is to a streamside marker dedicated to a deceased conservationist that Gierach seems to acknowledge is the epitaph for anyone who, like himself, spends his life in the thrall of something as gloriously inconsequential as fly-fishing.
By Frank Faldo
Obviously, the goal when casting a fly is to present the fly to the fish in a realistic manner. You are trying to simulate nature here. If you are going for trout in a stream, for instance, this means a drag-free float of 36 inches over a precise spot that marks the window of a feeding fish.
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