Trouts & Stouts

The blog has been quiet for a while now mostly because weather, life, and an overabundance of water has conspired to keep me from fishing this year. I was able to take one trip in February to the Stanislaus river, our usual winter fishing location. I have written about the river quite a bit elsewher

The Little Sur is my favorite local coastal stream. It's just a little stream, with tiny trout that requires a long hike to get to, but that all adds to the charm. Earlier this season, I wrote about how excited I was that the Little Sur seemed to be "bouncing back" after the 2008 wildfire season. Th

I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an iPod touch, which I sometimes use as an on-the-fly camera. I have played around with a few iOS camera programs, but never really did much with them, as my better photographs were not usually on my iPod. That all changed last week when I updated my iPod's OS,

Things have been pretty quiet here on the T&S blog. While I haven't had much time to post, I did have a few fishing adventures. One of my favorite was a trip back East to see my folks. Hurricane Irene stole what were going to be the bulk of my fishing days, but my Dad and I did manage to pack in a t

Having been born and raised in New England, I am generally skeptical of autumn on the West Coast.  I have been up and down the coast, and rarely have known the foliage to be as beautiful as back home. That was until I saw the yellow aspens of the Sierra's last weekend as we drove into Markleeville.

There are many things I am good at. I can cast a heavy streamer into the wind, I've built a couple decent looking fly rods, and both my wife and my mother think I am a damn handsome fellow. One thing I have yet to master is tying a decent fly. I tie flies in fits and starts, devoting hours a day for

One of the first posts on this blog was about our deep lust for the products of Joe Goertzen of Goertzen Adventure Equipment. A few months after I wrote that, I ordered the fly box style landyard, thinking that it would help me pair down from my beloved, but t [...]

I have fished for trout and bass in a lot of rivers and lakes on both coasts. I have caught a lot of fish, big and small,  but my favorite fishing memory is of catching tiny brook trout in muddy beaver ponds by the side of the road in New Hampshire.Sawyer Brook flows past the Eastman Community in Gr