Check out a video of me guiding HERE:
And an interview HERE:
Water temperature, flows, and food sources all determine where trout lie, and often time spent on local waters, not time spent with your nose buried in a book, will help you find trout. The first time I ever heard the phrase “think like a fish,” was during a brutally hot and grinding summer afternoon in August on a small Eastern Washington farm river where the trout populations are known to be midly bad to vacant, not to be confused with sterile. Suddenly I heard Chris holler. Looking upstream he was bent into a nice brown trout. Crouched over the fish as Chris let it go, I asked him how he’d seemingly done the impossible. “I hadn’t even spotted a fish all afternoon,” he said. He pointed over to the far bank where a few caddis had begun dancing in the shade beneath clumps of overhanging grass; a cool lie protected from both predators and the hot sun. “But then, there it was.” It has been a decade or more since then, but I’ve never found a better way of looking at a river.
Cam is available for guided trips through Taylor Creek Fly Shop or by calling 970-927-4374.
