Yvon Chouinard Preaches Simplicity at Recent Appearance

Yvon Chouinard spoke at MSU about his new guide, “Pheasant Tail Simplicity: Recipes and Techniques for Successful Fly Fishing.” (Courtesy: Montana State College)

Simplicity has been on the coronary heart of Yvon Chouinard’s philosophy for a long time, and it was a message he continued to hammer dwelling at a latest look at Montana State College in Bozeman:

Whereas fly outlets overflow with thousands and thousands of patterns designed to separate anglers from their cash, Chouinard spent a yr proving you’ll be able to catch fish anyplace on this planet with variations of only one fly.

Chouinard, who lives in Moose and often fishes the Snake River, caught bonefish, steelhead, salmon and trout in numbers equal to what he’d all the time caught — from Montana to Patagonia — utilizing solely pheasant tail patterns.

“It’s not the gear, it’s what you do with it,” he mentioned.

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