Arizona


Arizona Wanderings T-Shirts

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Arizona Wanderings T-Shirts They are here. This is a big day at Arizona Wanderings with the incorporation of the new logo design by Jason Jones. These t-shirts are now available for $20 and will ensure more small stream fishing trips, hunting adventures, gear reviews, and random mutterings to come. If you like what you read […]

Fly Tying: The Chubby Chernobyl

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How to tie the Chubby Chernobyl… In getting ready for a summer of fishing and a probable shot at the Deschutes River, I have started tying up some of the patterns everyone tells me to have in my fly box. The Chubby Chernobyl is at the top of everyone’s list and a half dozen different […]

Arizona Fly Fishing: Extras

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Antonio was able to send me over some other pictures of this past weekend from his camera. Always kind of interesting seeing a trip from someone else’s point of view. First pool. Looking at this picture, I’m pretty sure I had already lost my net at this point. It would not be a typical day […]

Arizona Fly Fishing: The Mogollon Rim

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Saturday morning started early as I drove to meet up with a new friend (and now, good buddy) to fish some new water on the Rim. Antonio is a Arizona native and has a great knowledge and even bigger passion for fly fishing in Arizona. We made short work of the hike while bushwacking to […]

The Easy Hopper Juan: My variation and tutorial

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The original Hopper Juan fly was developed by Juan Ramirez from Colorado Springs. When I first started thinking about getting into fly tying, there were two flies that really got me excited to learn, the parachute Adams and the Hopper Juan. Juan’s pattern can be found on his site, the Hopper Juan, with a detailed […]

Arizona Fly Fishing: Brownlining

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Spent a beautiful Saturday morning hitting some of the local Phoenix water with a couple good buddies. I returned to the spot I had fished last weekend where only a small bass came to hand and a large carp mocked me after spitting my fly. My goal was to rectify the situation. As stated in […]