Traditional Wet-fly Tactics By Dave & Emily Whitlock  ·  Fly Fisherman Magazine November   ·  2011 Sometimes it can be just as rewarding and stimulating to experience history and tradition, as it is to discover something new. About ten years ago my fly-fishing enjoyment and success was significantly improved when a close friend, Davy […]

Stalking the Golden Ghost by Dave Whitlock   ·  July 1998  ·  Fly Fisherman Magazine Let’s create a super-fish for fly fishing in the 21st Century. It should be smart, selective, strong, fast, almost indestructible, and plentiful in clod, cool, warm, and tropical waters from coast to coast and border to border. This super-fish should never […]

Seasons of the Sunfish April 6, 2012 By Dave & Emily Whitlock I’d like you to consider three questions: What is the first fish most of us catch on a fly? What is the most widely distributed and plentiful fish to catch on a fly? What fish is the most fun to catch on a […]

The Four Seasons River By Dave Whitlock Field and Stream – May 1968  (Dave’s very first article) While most trout streams that lie further north offer mainly ice-clogged impossibilities, Arkansas’ White River has top fishing. The river, hills and sky reflected late-autumn gold as I began to false-cast my second offering to the big fish […]

Tsmiane Gold by Dave & Emily Whitlock   ·  Spring 2010  ·  Fly Fisherman Magazine Exploring Bolivia’s clear and exotic jungle rivers. Long ropes of purple flowering jungle vines hung from the limbs of a 200-foot tree and down the face of the smooth rose, yellow, and rusty-red sandstone bluff. The turquiose eddy rotating against the […]