The Latest News from the Bench

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Miracle Midge

The Miracle Midge was originally a hot fly for the difficult trout of Colorado rivers, but now it's a hot pattern all over North America. Author Skip Morris discusses how to fish it to get results.

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Fly Fishing Wild Western Washington: Outlands

Fly fishing wild western Washington: Outlands. Author Skip Morris writes about his experience fishing for silvers and searuns on western Washington's Olympic Peninsula with Jim Kerr of Raincoast Guides working out of Forks, Washington.

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Fly Fishing Articles by Skip Morris

A collection of fly fishing articles that writer and author Skip Morris has published with the major fly-fishing magazines over the past 30-some years.

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Fly Fishing Photo Essays

Fly fishing photo essays by professional fly fisher and author Skip Morris and his wife, photographer Carol Ann Morris. These essays document fly fishing adventures these two avid fly fishers have taken over the last thirty-plus years.

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Montana Hoppers: the Princess and the Brute

Montana Hoppers: The Princess and the Brute. Fly fishing author Skip Morris writes the following in his essay about fishing Montana with hoppers: Grasshopper fishing is slamming a beefy fly onto water in hopes a trout will savagely rush it. A drunken brawl. But whatever it lacks in grace and refinement, grasshopper fishing does not lack in excitement.

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