Author

Chris Hunt

  • Fishing spurred invention in ancient Japan

    Photo courtesy Cosmos Magazine They say necessity is the mother of invention. In ancient Japan, it seems that pottery essentially came to be thanks to the need to store fish. Fishing made pottery necessary. Who knew? According to Cosmos Magazine, the initial assumption was that pottery came into being some 20,000 years ago because a…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: CDC Micro Caddis

    How many times have you stood at the tail of a run that's just boiling with rising fish, but you have no idea what, exactly, they're after? Yeah, dozens, right? Me, too. Video of CDC Micro CaddisAbove, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions, ties his CDC Micro Caddis, a fly that he uses in these situations…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Out of Office

    Some of my favorite fishing adventures have involved the wonderful people I work with at Trout Unlimited. From thigh-busting hikes into the canyons of Colorado's Roan Plateau, the lubricated walk-and-wade excursions into the Wyoming Range backcountry, fishing with my co-workers–some of my dearest friends—always seems more ... productive. Yeah, we talk shop. We take in…

  • A tournament to benefit a friend

    As fly fishers, we are perhaps more tuned into the way the natural world works, particularly when it involves fish and water. We pour over fly boxes, looking for something that resembles natural food for trout and bass, or even bonefish or permit. We focus on the cleanest waters, because that's where the best fishing…

  • TU in Action: Bonnies in Arkansas; saving water in Colorado, and more

    We don't all have trout fisheries in our backyards or even close to home. But in many "developed" watersheds across America, bottom-release dams designed for hydropower or flood control create stretches of cold rivers that can and do support healthy populations of introduced trout. I suppose we could debate the merits of introducing a non-native…