The finished product. A fly well-worth driving 700 miles for.Because It Looks Cool: Tying Artist Scott Murdock I recently drove a little over 700 miles in the span of a day for the sake of one fly—and it’s one that I would never dream of tying to a leader. It’s a fly that you have to see to appreciate, and I don’t even mean in a photograph. You have to watch it come together, listen to its creator recite a concise history of Atlantic salmon flies as he works, and feel the palpable buzz of a masterpiece in the making. You must ask questions, and you must look closely at the paired married wings because they are not, as it...
Steelhead fishing on the Situk River Blog by Gary Lewis Photos by Gary Lewis & Trey Scharp Our drift boats were staged at the bridge, waiting. We were hungry for steelhead. Trey, a 40-something from Wyoming, his dad, Vernon Scharp, my dad, Don, my brother-in-law Shannon Winters, and our friend Gary Davis shoved oars into oar-locks and threw our tackle bags into bow and stern. Vernon and I had planned this trip on a whim. And now we were at the Glacier Bear Lodge in a town called Yakutat where the rain had stopped and the snow had melted and we found ourselves in a unique circumstance where almost everyone in the lodge was there for one thing. Steelhead. Pete...
