Welcome to the premier issue of Fly Fishing Life Magazine!
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My fifty year passion for fly fishing and the hundreds of destinations I have traveled as a result have all led to the founding of this magazine. My commitment to this sport reflects a never-ending passion for the learning experience, the thrill of the river, and the on-going search for the exquisite.
I am committed to bringing you the finest in fly fishing literature, lore, tips, techniques, conversations with the masters, book reviews, product reviews, places to drop a line, and great places to stay when you're there.
 Fly Fishing Life Magazine will always be a free and indispensable resource to the fly fisher. Our archives are open to subscribers and I promise you will always want to be a subscriber. Contact me directly any time.
Bob Porter, Publisher
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by Lefty Kreh
Check Those Spider Webs
When trout fishing it pays to know just what flies have been hatching so that you can present the proper imitation. Spiders build webs to catch insects, so we can use these to our advantage. Trees, fences, larger wild plants, and almost any large bridge near the stream often hold a spider web. Once you locate one, it's pretty easy to determine which insects have been recently hatching.
From Lefty's Little Fly-Fishing Tips ©2002 by The Lyons Press.
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by Bob Porter
Waders New World; "Only leaks when you want to."
 Simms was among a handful of manufacturers displaying breathable waders for 2007 featuring waterproof zippers in front. The come-on for its G4 Guide waders was a photo of a zipper, with the motto: "Only leaks when you want to." Retail prices for the high-end zippered chest waders this year range from $700 for the new Simms G4 model to $425 for the Sir-Francis Evolution.
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by Bob Porter
Trophy Trout in California
 Every day proved to be a different challenge. The large north lake has some of the largest trout, but proved to be some of the most difficult fishing, especially for those of us who insist on dry fly fishing at every opportunity. In these small lakes the fish tend to cruise around considerably and sight fishing was the only way to quickly improve your odds...
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by Floyd Dean
The Hook Cast
The Hook Cast, to my knowledge is the most placid way to lay a dry fly on the surface of any body of water. If
landing a fly on the water with the smallest amount of disturbance is paramount, then The Hook Cast could
be your deliverance. A form of the hook cast was used in the movie A River Runs Through It.
‘The Shadow Cast’ as seen in that film, is really the result of a forward hook cast up river and a
backhanded hook cast down river.
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Understanding Trout Behavior
Brilliant Insights into How Trout Act and Why
Catching a trout is among the most rewarding challenges in the entire sport of fly fishing because
they are superbly adapted to their environment. To catch the wiliest among them, an angler must know
all of the many defenses that trout employ to protect themselves from predators.
In Understanding Trout Behavior, John Goddard and Brian Clarke give anglers invaluable advice about:
how trout see a "window" of images that is refracted through water; how rises and other feeding behavior
can tell you what fly to use; why casting vertically can reduce your chances of catching fish; why fish
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The Hoppicator
 The Two Fly Rig For the Avid Dry Fly Fisherman
As I was driving up to fish on one of my favorite streams with an old friend who was bringing a new friend, I had this marvelous idea and remarking to myself how bright it was and wondering why no one had ever thought of it. Being the resolute and determined dry fly fisherman that I am and abhorring "bobber fishing" as I do, whenever I must fish with nymphs I try to use a fly as my indicator and quite often that means a large stimulator on the surface and a nymph hanging below it on dropper line. So there I was lamenting how difficult that makes it to change depths when you want or need to from hole to hole, when it dawned on me that if I tied my stimulators on hooks with large enough eyes I could just loop the line through the eye the way you do when you put on one of those pre-made indicators and loop it over the fly and I would have the adjustable depth issue solved. Less than an hour later I'm on the stream with Mikey Wier explaining to him my great idea when...
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Insights from Guides and other Masters
Guiding the Guides
 Our monthly interviews with masters and guides begins with someone who has not only been guiding on California waters for over 30 years but is responsible for training some of the best and most notable guides in the country. Dick Galland ran the Clearwater House on Hat Creek for 20 years and established the Clearwater Guide School, setting the bar for guides and guiding ...
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by Bob Porter
Walking in His Footsteps
“My Daddy brought me trout fishing here every summer when I was a kid. I’ve returned every year since.”
The voice was a thin, leathery looking rancher-cowboy with slightly graying hair who just stepped out of the
woods right where I was about to go in.
He put down the wicker creel he was carrying and his fly rod, put his two dogs in the bed of his beat up
pickup truck, opened a cooler with some food for sandwiches and sat on gate of the truck....
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