Drifting The Prairie Ocean Outdoor Journal

Pictured above is the soft hackle creation I used yesterday.  The trout couldn't seem to leave this pattern alone.  Ninety percent of th...

Actually there were four hours to spare, but counting driving time and the time I needed to visit with Scotty there would be only two hours ...

It was the most gorgeous afternoon on the river Blue today.  The weather was brisk, to say the least, and rather cold at times, but just eno...

Look at him!  Tying flies while sluffing off again.  Notice the cookies on the table?  Yeah... that's commonplace at the Claus homestea...

Can you guess what this is? I love taking stuff that normally would be discarded and trying to make something useful out of it.  I plan o...

I pulled a threesome today.  I know... it seems somewhat far-fetched that a close-to-sixty year old guy, with stiffening joints and loss of ...

Image via Wikipedia In our fishing lives, I figure there are a lot of you just like me in the sense we have big dreams of things to come.  E...

The older fishermen always said, "Fish ahead of the front", and today looked like a perfect opportunity to do just that.  A curtai...