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Orvis intros 4th generation Helios fly rods

The Vermont-based legacy rod maker is billing their new offerings as the most accurate fly rods ever created
Photo: Nate Simmons.

Orvis is backing the launch of its next-generation Helios fly rod with some confident claims. But, judging by the initial information the Vermont-based rodmaker is sharing with the launch of its latest U.S.-made flagship rod series, along with our initial impressions of the new Helios’ performance on the water, those claims may not be mere marketing bluster.

Automakers keep glorifying bad behavior

Kia is the latest in a long line of auto brands celebrating "creek riding"
Scene from a TV commercial for Kia's EV9 featuring the new SUV driving straight down the bed of a creek. Image credit: Kia Motors.

Over the years, I’ve prepared myself for the inevitable. It happens almost every year around this time, and it’s a bad look for automakers who, despite certainly knowing better, continue to glorify a driving practice that should make every fly fisher cringe.

Be prepared for the next round of kitschy television advertisements that show just how capable new SUVs are of trashing perfectly good trout water. The latest culprit? Kia America and its ad for its EV9 GT-Line e-AWD crossover.

Connecticut angler there yesterday should have been there today

This time-space angling paradox just might change everything
Woo baby, today was one to remember on the East [pictured above], West, and mainstem (photo: Andrew Savidge).

STORRS, CT—A University of Connecticut Professor of Logic, Leann Jackson, is believed to be the first fly angler to fish the famed Delaware River yesterday when she should have been there today. An avid angler for much of her life, Ms. Jackson regularly makes the four-hour drive to upper New York to fish the west, east, and main branches of one of the nation’s greatest trout rivers. 

Gear we love right now: January 2024

What's working on and off the water, right now
Photo: Hatch Magazine.

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 worth coveting and what's worth ignoring. Gear reviews are a great way to explore in-depth what might be right for you, but not every piece of gear is suited to a full-length review and, even if it were, there's simply too much of it to get to. With that in mind, we periodically showcase what's working for us right now, to hopefully offer more helpful feedback on gear that's worth a second look.

The sound of thunder

Lessons learned at the School of Hard Knocks
Photo: Uncredited.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
—Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder

The sign on the wall caught my attention the way a Mepps silver spinner sometimes catches a trout’s:

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