The Purist

"Fundamentally, fly-fishing with another person is a little like fishing with a detached shadow."

Maximilian Werner

Stars and Browns of Strawberry River

When the video-camera battery dies, you know good things are in store.

Meditation on Mill Creek

The only place along our route where the creek has not been hemmed in by homes and fences...

Maximilian Werner

Summer Sunset

Signing off from a summer's worth of fishing fun in Yellowstone National Park.

Steven Spigelmyer

South Fork Shuffle

The results were amazing as Snake River cutthroats, rainbows and browns came up to slam the Chernobyl Ant...

Steven Spigelmyer

Fish, Family and Friends

Week 8: The salmonflies show up on the Madison just as friends and family arrive.

Steven Spigelmyer

Off the Beaten Path

Week 7: Exploring the Eastern End of Yellowstone

Steven Spigelmyer

Thank the Weather Gods

Summer weather opens up the fishing on the west side of Yellowstone.

A Belated Birthday Gift

It was a day on which I envisioned landing a 21-inch fish in commemoration of my birthday.

Steven Spigelmyer

Taimen in Yellowstone?

Week 4: I didn’t know if there was a fish in Yellowstone's Trout Lake large enough to eat a mouse pattern, but I tied it on anyway.

Steven Spigelmyer