Drifting The Prairie Ocean Outdoor Journal

Each year at the One Pattern Fly event held by the Blue River Fly Fishers, we have a little game where entrants can try and guess the i...

Longing For The Wilderness Oh my goodness... today would have been a day to be on the river.  Sun shining every so brightly with mild tem...

I decided to fish glass this morning on the river Blue and took that old $5.00 pawn shop Featherlight with me.  The rod has a few problems i...

You know that three year old, 300 plus outing non-leaking pair of LL Bean waders I'm always bragging about?  Well... they darn sure leak...

Sure wanted to fly-fish for the Rock Creek Carp on Tuesday but the gunslingers called. There is currently a Western movie production underw...

Tied this pattern a couple of years ago after reading about it in a magazine. Guess my thinking was if one San Juan Worm is good then a gob...

In the fly-tying/mini-museum room there lives some flies that have been lonely for quite some time. For sure they long for the water and the...

Next to the venerable Wooly Bugger, the Hare's Ear has been my personal best producing fly on the river Blue. Normally I fish it with a ...

I've grown quite tired of my hurried trips to the river Blue and my short time each trip. But when that is all you have then praise that...

Although the weather at Blue right now is rather cool and close to being bitter at times, it's still not in the category of being nasty ...

One of the topics presented to the Wildlife Department at the Blue River Fly Fishers get-together this past weekend was the condition of the...

The annual get-together of the Blue River Fly Fishers was held this past weekend at beautiful Blue. This get-together has also become know ...