Insights
Explore Your Curiousity
This is where I share the tips, techniques, and viewpoints that have led to my success on the water. I am not a guide or expert angler, though I believe this is a sport of lifetime learning where the most successful angler is the most curious one. I also believe teaching is the best way to learn and grow as an angler, so I hope sharing these insights benefits me as much as it does you. Not only do I share practical tips that will help you catch more fish, but I also share perspectives to ponder in fishing and life.
Six Tips for Fishing the Skwala Hatch
As the snow melts and our western rivers warm, anglers all over the west trickle onto the rivers. Why you ask? A combination of cabin fever from a long, cold winter and the first big bug hatch of the year. The Skwala Stonefly. The skwala hatch has provided some of my best fishing over the last few years in Idaho and Montana. Depending on the watershed, this hatch occurs in the Greater Yellowstone Region