By BHA's Utah Coordinator, Ken Theis.   One of the main things required of graduate students, regardless of the field of study, is to read. Exposed to a vast amount of information, you are expected to notice when various thoughts, ideas, and information begin to mesh. Once-held beliefs may be discarded, others reinforced, emerging ideas adopted. Sorted, sifted, and mulled over, somehow it all converges into what you take to be true. Certain authors may be particularly influential and you ...

By New Mexico BHA Member, Jeff Young There are many ways to tell the difference between someone new to the game and a seasoned veteran of the sport. Perhaps the easiest way is which way they are facing on the water. A fly fisherman casting downstream is a sure sign of being new to the sport. The cure for this flaw is not catching fish. If you are not working upstream, fish will not come easy. Trout must swim upstream in order to breathe. Water enters their mouth and exits the gills as they ...