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Voices from the River: Losing Patrick F. McManus
By Chris Hunt Years ago, after being abruptly transplanted from the high-mountain meadows of Colorado to the hot, sticky pine forest of East Texas, I found solace in the loss of my Rocky Mountain roots in the writings of men like Bob Saile, Ed Dentry and Charlie Meyers. And I found the spirit to laugh…
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Video spotlight: How to make a single-handed spey cast
I'm not a big steelhead guy—I'll go once in a while, usually for the company and not so much the fishing, which is generally pretty slow. So I rarely find myself needing a ton of "big-water" casting skills. But one skill I learned while chasing steelhead is the one RIO's Simon Gawesworth describes below—spey casting…
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Fly tying: The SBR Hendrickson Nymph
Heavy nymphs that get down are ideal this time of year, as rivers start to pick up steam from upstream snowmelt. They may not be cloudy or dirty with full runoff yet, but water levels in the spring are on the rise, and we anglers need flies to anchor two-nymph rigs that get down and…
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Voices from the River: Lessons from ‘Curtis Creek’
By Eric Booton Learning to fly fish is always a mild struggle-fest. I personally endured the process with choice words, and extended periods of time with my rod catching more dust than fish. In the past few years I’ve watched friends and family go through a similar love and hate relationship with their fly rod,…
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10th annual Chica de Mayo set for Bozeman
The River’s Edge and Simms Fishing Products are hosting the 10th annual Chica de Mayo women's fly-fishing event in Bozeman, Mont., on Cinco de Mayo (May 5). The River’s Edge West (59 North Star Lane in Bozeman), will the be gathering place for a day designed just for female fly fishers. This year, the event…
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Video spotlight: Blue Heart
At Trout Unlimited, we usually celebrate when dams come out and rivers are made whole again. We've been part of some of the greatest reconnection efforts ever seen, from the Elwha in Washington to the Penobscot in Maine. Removing dams in our country is ... fashionable, if not vital for healthy river function and the…
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Fly tying: Finishing your parachute post
We've showed several of Tim Flagler's videos over the last few weeks on tying in parachute posts—there are several methods that he has demonstrated to make this somewhat complicated method a little bit easier. Now, it's just up to you to find the method that works best for you. For me, I'm a fan of…
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