Yvon Chouinard spoke at MSU about his new e-book, “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 retailers overflow with hundreds of thousands of patterns designed to separate anglers from their cash, Chouinard spent a 12 months proving you may catch fish wherever on the planet with variations of only one fly.
Chouinard, who lives in Moose and steadily fishes the Snake River, caught bonefish, steelhead, salmon and trout in numbers equal to what he’d at all times caught — from Montana to Patagonia — utilizing solely pheasant tail patterns.
“It’s not the gear, it’s what you do with it,” he stated.
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