If Only There Was Fishing Like This In The Northwest

Gosh, them trout are big.

Hopper Water

Right now, somewhere in the southern hemisphere, there's a piece of water that looks like this and is fishing well with terrestrials.

Renegade

Renegade

hook: TMC 900BL
tag: gold tinsel
aft hackle: brown rooster saddle
body: peacock herl, 4 strands
fore-hackle: white rooster saddle

Invented by Taylor "Beartracks" Williams in 1928, the Renegade should be the Idaho state bird.

"Grayling Dragged Through The Coals"

Fly Fish Yellowstone reports on the how and the why the grayling is the Rodney Dangerfield of coldwater fishes.