Author: Hale Harris

Fly Fishing products I Kinda Sorta Like 2025

Fly Fishing Products I Sorta Like in 2025 When I was a kid and had to walk ten miles uphill to the bus stop every day, fly fishing products were limited in selection and quality. Graphite rods were just becoming a thing and fly reels, the few models that were available, had drag systems of… Read more

Bighorn River Winter Fly Fishing

Tailwater rivers provide the best option for anglers during the winter due to consistent water temperatures and ice-free flows. The Bighorn River is one of the best. Most anglers traveling from afar come the Bighorn River during the more predictable weather months of April – October, for those anglers in the know the Bighorn River… Read more

Selecting a Fly Rod that Will Change Your Life

Authors of self-help and motivational books tell us that if we adopt the mental and behavioral principles they espouse, our lives will change for the better. This is probably true for a fair percentage of people. A year ago, I bought a book about procrastination. While I haven’t read it yet, it’s probably a great… Read more

2020 Year in Review

  The fishing season of 2020 is drawing to a close and as you might already suspect, it was a challenging year. I’m not specifically referencing the fishing, which I’ll get to in a moment, but maintaining a destination lodge business in the midst of travel restrictions, quarantines and economic shutdown is not easy. I… Read more

The World’s Largest Trout

  The time has come to tell the story. I’ve been reluctant to do so because I am a fly fishing guide, and people think that fly fishing guides are prone to exaggeration. Maybe you’ve seen the post cards. You used to find them out west in small, backwater towns, usually in little general stores… Read more