by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Jan 26th, 2023
The directions were a bit odd for a meet-up to go fishing. I’ve joined fishing buddies at campsites, mile markers, highway intersections and rural road crossings. I’ve met up at bars and convenience stores. Once I met a buddy from Utah at an abandoned liquor store in the middle of nowhere in southeast Wyoming.
But Rob McConnell’s directions for me as I drove north out of Houston were the strangest I’d ever heard.
by Chris Hunt - Monday, Jan 23rd, 2023
In late August of 1989, I sat on the end of my bed inside my Crystal Hall dorm room enduring a bout of internal strife. My roommate hadn’t showed up, and it looked like I might have a single room for my first semester at Western State College of Colorado (Now Western Colorado University). Beer? Or fishing?
I know, I know, don’t they go together like feet and socks? Yes, but this is a nuanced story, so bear with me.
by Hatch Magazine - Saturday, Jan 21st, 2023
The Fly Fishing Show kicked off its 2023, six-city tour yesterday in Marlborough, MA. For many anglers, the show is an annual pilgrimage—one where they can ogle, shop for, and even try out new gear; take in seminars and presentations on everything from casting to fly fishing travel; meet celebrity fly tyers and watch them at their craft; lay their hands on for hard-to-find fly tying supplies; and much more.
by Todd Tanner - Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2023
As a fly fishing writer, as well as a fly fishing and casting instructor, one simple question seems to keep popping again and again.
“I want to buy one rod for my fly fishing. What’s the best overall trout rod?”
The standard response from long-time fly fishing industry members is actually pretty simple.
by Chad Shmukler - Thursday, Jan 12th, 2023
Each year, after the holiday season is behind us all, many anglers start peering ahead. Ahead roughly, say, three or four months—to the somewhat rapidly approaching new fishing season. Or, if you’re a dedicated wintertime angler or live in parts of the country that remain hospitable to anglers throughout the entire year, fishing season never ends.
Giving a nod to both groups, manufacturers are rolling out new wares for the coming year. With rods, reels, waders, fly tying gear, and more, there’s plenty to pore over. Here are a few of this month’s highlights.
There’s a small lake at the end of a gravel road in Northern Ontario. It’s much like a thousand other Canadian lakes, ringed with cottages, perfectly shorn birch and maple...
It was a good idea. Or so we thought.
After a day spent chasing bones and tarpon on the flats of Chetumal Bay, instead of heading back to the lodge, Earl and I...
Pushing off from the dock on a boat called the Capelin, Sandy Milner’s small team of scientists heads north, navigating through patchy fog past a behemoth cruise...
Fly anglers are overloaded with gear choices—rods, reels, boots, waders, lines, packs, bags, boxes, vests, apparel and more. It seems harder and harder to know what's...
In Simple Nymphing: Part 1, I focused on several basic nymph fishing truths...
In August 2020, Congress did something remarkable. In the throes of a heated political campaign season and in the middle of a deadly viral pandemic that was literally...
