Posts Category: TANGLES - GUIDES BLOG

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Dear John and Others

By Steve SchmidtPast owner of Western Rivers Flyfisher, and long time Ranch Regular. Writer, photographer and a flyfisher in progress.Dear John & others…Thoughts and Considerations:John McDaniel...

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The 2023 Season on the Harriman Ranch

Read John McDaniel's thoughts and data here:The report will open as a printable PDF. Feel free to comment below on this page.

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The 2022 Season on the Harriman Ranch

The 2022 Season on the Harriman RanchIn 2022, Ranch fishing was the worst I have experienced over 40 consecutive years and more than 14,800 hours of angling and guiding. An index of how recently a...

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The 2018 Season on the Harriman Ranch

Fishing in 2018 was better than in 2017. Between 15 June and 14 September, my clients and I landed 106 rainbows of seventeen inches or longer. The figure is almost twice the number we landed in 2017...

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The 2017 Season on the Harriman Ranch

The 2017 season was defined by both positives and negatives concerning the health of our fishery and the quality of our fishing. We had better numbers of a few species of aquatic insects...

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The 2016 Season on the Harriman Ranch

From 2012 through 2015, it was fun to write my annual report on Ranch fishing.  This year it is difficult.  My clients and I invested more than 400 hours on the water between 15 June...

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Hunting Unicorns

Over the course of the last nine seasons guiding trips for TroutHunter, I’ve come to realize that there are several types of anglers whom I regularly encounter.  The first is the...

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Checking in

Any chance I get to get out on the river with one of the guys I try to take advantage of. Pat and I both have a wife and two children at home, and a very busy guide season. So for us to get...

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The 2015 Season on the Harriman Ranch

General Comments 2015 provided the eighth straight year of good fishing on the Ranch; however, there were more periods of tough fishing than in any summer since 2007.  I invested 485 hours...

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Recap: 2013 Season on the Harriman Ranch

THE 2013 SEASON ON THE HARRIMAN RANCH by John McDaniel It was an interesting year.  In summary, we had our fifth consecutive year of excellent Ranch fishing.  My detailed journal...