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The hardest fly to tie?
The author's Adams. Or... a distant cousin to the Adams. I love to tie flies. But, like a guy who also loves to sing in the shower, I'm better off keeping my skills to myself. Of late, while working away at the computer, my office has turned into a remote fly-tying station. I'll tie a…
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Do you ‘fish and tell?’
What if I were to tell you, hypothetically speaking, that I had an absolutely epic day today (which is often the case in October in Colorado, unless it snows … and sometimes even when it does)? So what qualifies as e pic? Put in at a public launch. Took out at a public launch. Floated…
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Short casts: Low-country reds; shaking up fly fishing; better streamers tips; staying warm
Jason Stemple photo We're heading into the best time of year to chase "low-country" redfish on the flats, from the Carolinas south to Florida, and all along the Gulf Coast. Big bull reds are beginning their annual migration into the flats, and it won't be long before they're tailing and mucking up the shallows in…
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Antiquities Hearing: Fact v. fiction
By Corey Fisher
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Trapped trout relocated to Big Wood River
Local volunteers help move fish stuck in irrigation ditches Volunteers from the local chapter in Hailey, Idaho helped relocate fish trapped in irrigation ditches to the Big Wood River. As irrigation season comes to an end, headgates are closed so that water no longer flows into ditches. Those irrigation ditches become disconnected puddles and trout…
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Skills: Float tube basics
By Dave Atcheson I have to smile to myself as I watch a line of buddies negotiating the trail in front of me. There’s nothing beautiful about it, just a tangle of legs and arms sticking out from brightly colored rings, bobbing from side to side between the trees in an absurd and uncoordinated display.…
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Sacred Waters: The Pere Marquette system
The author standing on the railroad bridge where the first brown trout were introduced to America. By Kirk Deeter Most anglers have home waters—places they consider sacred. For me, the tracks always lead back to Baldwin, Mich., and the Pere Marquette River system. It was here where I learned to fly fish. Many years ago,…
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