Steve Hillman

Steve Hillman

It’s Time to Gear Up!

I’ve always mentioned select items when the opportunity presented itself within the context of my stories but I’ve never actually...

Adjusting on the Fly

As I type this article I’m currently in Flippin, Arkansas with three of my long-time clients and good friends from...

Fresh Ideas

The Lake Livingston dam is currently discharging at 84,824 cfs (cubic feet per second). It’s January 25th as I write...

Post-Front Maneuvers

As I type, our water temperatures have been cold enough for a long enough period to cause most of the...

Breaking Down 2023

The year started off with patches of decent sized trout congregated in their typical winter haunts over scattered shell and...

Rotating Our Crops

There are many variations of crop rotation. Some involve growing a series of different types of crops in the same...

Reasons

It was a muggy morning last November when my three clients and I rolled out of the marina. The third...

Tide Influences

As astute anglers we must study and visualize every possible scenario based upon the variables laid out before us. Wind...

The Writing’s on the Wall

I’ve always had a tendency to recap our fishing by season because it just seems to make sense. With summer...

Overcoming Late Summer Doldrums

We’ve now officially entered what seems like the toughest time of the year for catching trout on lures here in...

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