A few times a year I get a hankering for fish; fried creek-side in cast iron. I am not sure just what it is that triggers it under normal conditions, but on this particular trip I knew it was the cool mornings and turning leaves that were my downfall. Sometimes I think it's my inner-fisherman that spawns the urge, after witnessing dozens of trout released throughout a season's time on the water. At some point it has just had enough and says, "My turn". So as with this occasion, I find myself gathering up my things in a small hunting daypack I have to spend a day fishing some and relaxing a bit more along a quiet stretch of water.

What is an 'expert?' An old story says, "It's someone from out of town with a briefcase." Maybe that's what the New Construction South called the carpet-baggers, too.

Lefty Kreh, probably the best known fly fishing instructor in America has a favorite saying. He lays it on anyone willing to listen, "Don't show knowledge, share knowledge." By the way, Lefty will dress anyone up one side and down the other if they call him an "expert." Lefty considers himself a professional.

The REC (Ralph's Emerging Caddis) is a simple but extremely effective emerger pattern to tie. It was originally tied with this dubbed abdomen color to match the emergent caddis flies on Pennsylvania's Tulpehocken Creek. However, has since proven itself on countless waters with the abdomen color tied to match any particular hatch encountered. When changing colors, I always utilize the same dubbing materials in order to maintain the intended translucency. I fish this pattern beneath an indicator most often, but it does equally as well dead-drift with a Leisenring-lift applied to the tail of the drift.

The temperature was not warm or cold. The wind was blowing 25 mph with higher gusts. It was supposed to rain and snow the next two days. Then we were involved in things on Saturday and Sunday, and I didn't think that I can go that long without being on the water. I was not even sure that I wanted to find the answer to that question.

Roscoe, New York is located about 2 hours northwest of New York City, nestled in the south-west corner of Catskill State Park. The park of 600,000 acres (900 sq. mi.) is one of America's greatest freestone fisheries, containing thousands of miles of world class trout waters. Billed as "Trout Town USA" you are within easy driving distance of the Beaverkill, Willowemoc, Delaware, Neversink and Espous Rivers. Each year thousands of fly fishermen flock to these historic rivers where American dry fly fishing and the "Catskill" style of fly was born.

I presume that age has something to do with it but I increasing find myself looking back and reflecting upon where we've been and wondering where we're going. I've lived through the renaissance of fly fishing from the late 50's to the present. Recently I pulled several old fly fishing catalogues from my bookcase and sat out under the trees in my lawn and looked back at the history of fly fishing equipment from my past.

Do you want to catch an Arctic Grayling in Yellowstone National Park? If so your destination is Grebe Lake which also happens to be the headwaters of the Gibbon River.

Grebe Lake is a 156 acres set on the Solfatara Plateau at 8028 feet, from the trailhead off the Canyon Road it is easy three mile or possibly three and half mile hike through the meadows and the lodgepole pine forest, this area was burned over in the massive fires of 1988. On the same plateau sets Wolf Lake which is two miles west of Grebe Lake and Cascade Lake which sets three miles east.

I never intend to conclude or to solve this age old discussion: which is more important; fly presentation or fly pattern? Rather, I hope this short article will remind each reader what he/she thinks about it and discuss within. In my case, I was reminded and made to think deeply about it through my experience of this fall with complicated hatches and selectively feeding trout.