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Frog

Passionate fly fishers dream of having their kids turn into their best fishing buddies. It often doesn’t happen at all,…»

River-Cast

The Deschutes River drainage is immense. It begins as water seeping from volcanic rock that forms the backbone of the…»

Cast

Don’t Pidgeonhole the Nymph Game Euro nymphing. Czech nymphing. High-sticking. Tight-line nymphing. We’re fly fishers, and as our boxes of…»

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Pennsylvania’s fertile Cumberland Valley is known for its cold, crystalline spring creeks and their wary and selective trout. The valley’s…»

Fish

One of the most complicated aspects of two-handed rods is line selection. There is such a wide variety of choices…»

Hold-2

In Search of Danica “The Mayfly fortnight used to be said, especially by the older school of authors, to be…»

Sculpins

Sculpins are plentiful in rivers. Big fish eat little fish all the time. Fish sculpins long enough and hard enough,…»

Catch

Lighter, Faster, Stronger? It’s a common misconception that durability is sacrificed as fly rods become lighter, with thinner walls and…»

Fishpond

”Welding” used to mean using extremely high heat to unite two pieces of metal. Now, it just means using heat…»

Fish

  Fly fishers are enamored with minutiae. We care about the tiny mayflies hiding under rocks, their nuanced colors, and…»

Rapids-Cast

By: Harry Murray By parking at trailheads on Skyline Drive and hiking down to the upper reaches of the streams,…»

Hold-1

Rainbow trout are rapacious, predatory hunters. They are not by way of genetics reclusive, wary of inanimate objects floating overhead,…»

Fish

Androscoggin Reborn On May 6, 2006, the Fraser paper mill on the bank of New Hampshire’s Androscoggin River belched rancid…»

Redington-Willow-River

Most wading boots today are available with either felt or sticky rubber soles. Sticky rubber versions are sometimes slightly more…»

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Fish

 Blackstone Lake–At first sight, this small lake, nestled on the west bank of the Yakima River, looks more like a…»

Dark-Hold

Bar ZX Ranch On a bright June afternoon, Bret Gardner and I fished our way around six small trout ponds…»

Group-Flies

Like so many of fly fishing’s finer points, there is an ongoing debate over the merits of using preweighted versus…»

Fish

“Eureka!” The word was supposedly first exclaimed by the Greek mathematician Archimedes when he discovered a way to determine the…»

Black-and-White

Every fly fisher would like to cast better and more efficiently. Why is it, then, that many fly fishers can’t…»

Hooked-Fish

They came in waves. They ran the gauntlet through the pounding surf where the dark seal heads bobbed. The surf…»

Fish

A few years ago we stopped using a traditional down-and-across streamer technique and began developing more active presentations. We shed…»

Color-Fish

Thousands of fly fishers will travel to Idaho every year to fish the fabled waters of the Henry’s Fork, Silver…»

Wave

The same sight-fishing excitement that has captivated bonefish and tarpon anglers for decades is now mesmerizing striper anglers from Long…»

Water-Hold

Except in a few waters across the country, smallmouth bass have had little protection from overharvest. Even in the fish’s…»