THE DRIFT
The Fly Box
The fly box is a record of where you have been and what the river asked for. The patterns that earn their place, and how...
The Smith River Float
The Smith River does not give itself up easily. A permit lottery, 59 miles of canyon from Camp Baker to Eden Bridge, and a float...
Cold Water, Warming Fast
A July reading of 72 degrees on the Yellowstone River is the temperature at which trout stop feeding. What warming western waters mean for the...
The Henry's Fork: A River That Humbles
Four miles of Railroad Ranch on Idaho's Henry's Fork. The fish are large, the water is clear and slow, and the river humbles everyone who...
Before the Hatch
The sky is graphite, the thermometer reads 41 degrees, and the river is talking before anyone else is listening. This is the hour before the...
The Deschutes: High Desert, Cold River
The Deschutes drops out of the Cascades and runs 252 miles through the Oregon high desert, carrying summer steelhead and native redband trout through basalt...
