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Don Oliver
Position: Staff reporter

Catching carp in the Arizona canal

Urban fishing in the Phoenix metro aided by a guide

Tips for a first-time buyer

Deciding where you’ll fly-fish is a good first step Let’s say someone near and dear to you gave you a shop-till-you-drop card redeemable at your local fly shop. The only problem, even though...

It was a good Christmas

Holidays and young generations offer hope for the future

Receiving and giving

A fly fisherman reflects on the past year

Hidden in plain sight

Old gravel pits now filled with trout

The wait was worth it

Remember when waiting for Christmas morning to arrive seemed like it took an eternity. You hoped that long package was a new bamboo fly rod or the small package held the keys to a new bass ...

Down but not out, not by a long shot

I recently took a fly fishing vacation to Grand Bahama. The fishing was great. The travel to and from deserves a column on the nightmare of travel at the end of COVID-19. The trip, arrange...

Road trip reinstated

Last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, “She Who Must Be Obeyed” (SWMBO) and I had to cancel our annual spring road trip. This year, the virus wasn’t so rampant, and we had received both...

It’s here – spring, that is

This column is really for those who are new to fly fishing, been doing it fewer than two years, or like me, can’t remember what you had for dinner last night. It’s about what to do to get re...

Gumbo, Dixie Beer and Redfish

If you are familiar with the south, you know from the title I was in Louisiana. Louisiana, similar to other Gulf Coast states, is known for many things. But I think the gumbo, beer and redfi...

Looks and nudges on the Animas River

The high country is snowed-in, the Southern Ute Reservation and the San Juan River are closed, the lakes are icing over; the Animas is our fall-back. And, frankly, it is a good fall-back. ...

Curls that aren’t so cute

We’ve all seen advertising pictures of little girls with cute curly hair. Those of us that fly fish have seen a fly cast that falls several feet short of the intended target because the line...