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Spritzer season
Years ago, when I worked for TU's Public Lands Initiative, we'd often wind down a big day in the field with a cocktail. Back then, the PLI was what I liked to call the TU Delta Force. We existed, but we never really acknowledged that fact—our staffers weren't biologists or policy wonks. We were anglers,…
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Video spotlight: Pirarucu
Arapaima can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh close to 500 pounds. That puts them among the largest freshwater fish on the planet. And they'll hit a fly. Video of Pirarucú *TRAILER* Amazon's Giant Arapaima by Todd MoenAbove is the trailer to Todd Moen's Catch Magazine film Pirarucu, the story of chasing the…
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Fly tying: McKenna’s Sexy Walt’s Worm
Dave McKenna is a fly tier after my own heart—he travels a lot for work, so rather than diving into a fly shop to buy local patterns every time he hits a new river, he's come up with a host of flies that seem to work generally everywhere. It's a great notion, that of having…
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Voices from the River: Feeling the weight
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountai n day; whatever his fate, long life, short life,…
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Fly tying: UV resin for parachute posts
Over the last couple of weeks, we've focused on parachute posts, largely because they can confound some folks at the vise. First, we showed you a traditional method, then we showed you the 90-degree method. Now, Tim Flagler offers up still another method for tying effective parachute posts, this one involving UV resin. Video of…
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Short casts: Loving New Zealand to death; Wyoming women anglers; fighting a hatchery in Michigan, and more
Photo courtesy of Mike Kirkpatrick Imagine hiking for hours through dense brush, over ridges and bluffs among a Jurassic setting, your fly rod tucked into your backpack, along with a day's provisions—maybe even a tent for an overnighter—just to get to your favorite fishing hole. You arrive, string up your fly rod and start walking…
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Caption contest winner announced
"It's just ten minutes of dirt, and then we'll be able to fish all day!" The photo above is particularly painful for me. This shot was taken on a TU media tour a decade ago, when I and a host of TU staffers hosted several reporters, photographers and TV personalities on trip into the Wyoming…
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