by Chris Hansen | Aug 4, 2015 | Blog
Most of the time if I go camping it is because of necessity, not just because camping is so much damn fun. I may camp out because there just happens to be a campsite where I’m fishing, or maybe I spent too much money on tackle and can’t come up with the funds for a...
by Chris Hansen | Jun 6, 2015 | Blog
You want to catch a muskie on a fly? No one said it was going to be easy. Or did they? Be sure that I didn’t. You want to catch a lot of fish?– I suggest a trip to one of our fine local spring creeks, this time of year the hatches will keep the trout feeding...
by Chris Hansen | May 1, 2015 | Blog
“PLOP” I watched one of my last jigs disappear into the swirling green water I was standing in. It had slipped through my shaking fingers when I was retying after releasing the biggest snook I had ever caught. I should have been mad, but I just chuckled and...
by Chris Hansen | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog
Are you out of fish to catch? What’s left on your fly fishing bucket list? Steelhead, pike, striped bass? These are pretty simple, you could probably catch all 3 on one trip without a boat if you planned it right. How about things like tarpon, king salmon, muskie,...
by Chris Hansen | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog
There was a time when I tied flies a lot. Almost every night in my smoky one room apartment you would find me drinking cheap beer and adding to my inexhaustible supply of flies. There were, and still are, certain flies that I can’t ever seem to have enough of—things...