Feature Articles from Stream Side Adventures
Catch of the Season Stream Side Adventures's catch of the year this year it wasn’t a fish at all, but it was special for both our clients and for the entire Stream Side Adventures team. This year’s catch of the season was our newest team member, Sarah Dominic. Read more...
Racing the Sun ...Ethan pulled out a map and said, “You know Dad this the only place in the world where you could watch the sun rise over the Atlantic and then drive to the Pacific to watch it set. Let’s do it... Join Norm and Ethan in their race with the sun across South America.
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Trout by a Hair. Many of you are newer visitors to STREAM SIDE ADVENTURES’ web site and may not have heard or read about Norm’s quest to become a “Complete Angler” by catching a trout the way Izaak Walton had to do it using a hair from a horse’s tail as a tippet. Read how Norm meet the challenge..
Where are the Caddis? Resolving a Fly Fishing Mystery. Historically we have waited for mid-February to come to the Missouri Ozarks. The days, and perhaps more important, the nights are starting to warm. That means it is time to start fishing the little gray bodied cadis hatch! Read more...
Fly Fishing in the Czech Republic. In mid-November of 2008 I had the opportunity to be in the Czech Republic and took advantage of the chance to fish the Vltava River in the mountains of South Bohemia, Czech Republic near Lenora. Being in the Czech Republic it was only appropriate that I would be nymph fishing. Read more...
One Fly for a Nice Mill Creek Day.Some folks are just not as lucky as me when it comes to being able to go fishing, I can go just about any time I please. For others it is more about what Bob Seager said “dead lines and commitments – what to leave in and what to leave out”. Finding time to take a is trip much more difficult. Choices have to be made. Participate in a club “one fly tournament” or fish just one fly pattern on a wild trout stream. Read more...
Fly Fishing Chile – On My Own. Norm Crisp’s account of his week spent fly fishing the central Patagonia area of Chile on his own. Norm’s experiences may make you re-think the idea of spending nearly $700 dollars a day when you can do it for under $100 without sacrificing good fishing. Read more...
Chilean Wines. Being a wine lover but not terribly knowledgeable, I went to my source, Mary and Marshall Rimann of Rimann Liquors, for help on wine as I planned my Chilean fly fishing trip.Thanks to their help, I was able to visit two of Chile's premier small wineries, Antiyal and De Martino, and discover the wine variety Carmenere. Read more...
California Heritage Trout Challenge. California has one of the most diverse group of trout within its boundaries. No fewer than 11 species or sub-species (see footnote 1) are native to the state. These trout are dubbed “Heritage Trout.” The California Fish and Game Commission established the “California Heritage Trout Challenge” to honor this diversity. Read more...
Pond Fishing for Sunfish! A couple of years ago my oldest son did two great things great things for Father’s Day. He took me to his “secret” farm pond to fish and on the way home we stopped for a beer. Thanks E for the beer, but more importantly for reintroducing me to the joys of fishing for sunfish. Read more...
Medicine Bow Grand Slam (Article by Paul Bennetts reprinted from Heart of America Fly Fishers May, 2007 Newsletter) Local fishing guide and club member Norm Crisp had been inviting me to come to fly fish with him near Encampment Wyoming for the past two summers. My vacation schedule was flexible enough last summer to go. Read more...
Belize! Belize! Over the last few years, more and more of our friends and clients have been asking us about developing some a winter fishing opportunity. Every time we started to talk about it, our Associate Preston kept shouting BELIZE - BELIZE at us. Off we went to see what Belize had to offer. Read more...
When most people think of California fishing they think of northern rivers like the Mc Cloud, the upper Sacramento, or Hat Creek. I recently had the opportunity to get in a few days of fishing in California with my friend Duane Brandt. Our real motivation was the chance of adding several new species to our life lists. Read more...
Arriving soon into Belize - looking below I see thin strings of white roads twisting without connectors. Small squared communities appear. Now the landscape is taking on the look of Kansas. Large patches of different colors. More white strings, more signs of people. Then-the Caribbean Sea! Read more...
Electro-Fishing the Current River. Recently, I had the opportunity to help the Missouri Department of Conservation conduct an electro-fishing survey of two section of the Current River in Missouri. The number and size of the fish I saw only confirms my belief in how special the Current is. Read more...
