West of Lake Tahoe in Tahoe National Forest near the northern most region of the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains runs the North, Middle, and South Yuba rivers. The three continue westward and eventually unite creating the Yuba River, which flows into the Feather River and so on until what was once snow melt, shifts back and forth from meandering drift and rushing rapids, becomes seawater. Before that happens, however, these rivers cut through the upper Sierras creating deep

Stretching from the upper Midlands in the heart of England to near the Scottish border, the Pennines are a beautiful and diverse range of small mountains and high hills that provide wonderful hiking and other recreational opportunities for everyone. I say “diverse” for two reasons: first, because this chain runs from the outskirts of bustling metropolises like Manchester and Leeds-Bradford to some of the most remote parts of England. Secondly, the range is host to a plethora

When I was first learning to fly-fish, I'm not going to lie, I was often very, very frustrated. I was constantly getting tangled up in trees and snapping my fly off and retying patterns that didn't seem to work. I was trying to finesse my fly into the water and worried constantly about my presentation. If my cast flopped I would immediately strip it in and start over. Larry was the husband of my mother's second cousin, saying that doesn’t do it justice because he was more t