welcome

On my bookshelf you'll find a stack of tattered notebooks of various shapes and sizes.  These notebooks are the journals from my travels.  They include drawings, diagrams of fishing patterns and rigs, techniques, and other scribblings.  This web page is an attempt to digitize all my journals and notebooks, for myself and for others to view.  Plus there's a lot of good fish photos!  

Please feel free to contact me with any additional information, notes, and feedback.  Enjoy!  worldanglr@hotmail.com

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photo gallery
 
Check out my new photo gallery! It contains over 300 photos, some take recently with my new digital camera, and some scanned. Photos are from around the globe, including the US, New Zealand, Australia, and even Nepal! You can also find the 2003 photo essay archives here...
 
feature photo
 

Big Browns in Middle Earth....

 


archive of feature photos

 
photo essays
   
     
 
   
 
some random articles, essays, and trip reports!
   

Green Grass
... the grass is certainly not as green on this side as it looks from the other side.
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Small Streams
(Reproduced from the August 2003 Yakima River Fly Fishers Newsletter)
It seems that more and more every year, fly fishing is becoming a destination sport...


Yakima River
Multiple Flies for Multiple Hatches
Want to double your chances of catching fish? Become a better fly fisherman? Always wondered about droppers? Read on...


More!
More articles, essays, and trip reports ...

   
 
articles and essays
   

Spring Fix
The sun had just started to warm the air as I found myself walking down the trail to my favorite brook trout lake...

Big Brookies and Secret Lakes

When someone mentions sixteen inch brook trout, most people raise an eyebrow...

Escaping the Rain

As the torrential downfall continued outside my window, I stared depressingly at the weather report, trying to figure out where to fish for the next four days...


Blackmouth and Rocky Beaches

Fishing in the salt for blackmouth and silvers...

Bogs, Logs, and Rising Cutthroat

Exploratory trip to one of the hidden lakes in Western Washington, in hopes of finding wild coastal cutthroat.


My First Steelhead
Recounting my first trip to the Olympic Peninsula for my birthday.

Micro-Nymphing for Trout

Techniques, rigging, and tips for fishing tiny unweighted flies.


Can't We All Just Get Along?
This story of an encounter with a duck hunter while fishing Beda Lake.

In Search of Shangri-La
Exploration of a Northern Cascades headwater stream in hopes of finding the fabled "Waterfall of Big Cutthroat".

Other Articles
View my complete list of articles ranging from nymph techniques to rambling essays.

   
 
logs
   

Fishing Log 2003-04

A comlete listing of all of my fishing trips in spreadsheet format, this log dates back to June 2002 and was updated religiously until last year...


Fly Log 2002-03
Intersted in the latest flies I've been tying? Dating back to October 2002, this is a spreadsheet listing of all the flies I've tied since then.

Other Logs
A number of other logs including my fishing log from when I lived in Australia, and also from when I lived in New Zealand.

 
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