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Video spotlight: Coastal Chrome
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a huge steelhead guy. I love to chase big ocean-going rainbows as they come back home to Idaho and prepare to spawn, but sometimes, the reward is slim. Frozen fingers, frozen toes and few, if any fish, to show for it leave me wanting. Video of…
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Video spotlight: South—The Road Trip
New Zealand's South Island is known for its off-the-charts brown trout fishing, and for most of us outside of Kiwi borders, seeing is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure (if that) that generally involves parachuting in for a week, maybe two, and sampling a small number of rivers. But what if we had a camper van, a raft…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Bass in Tough Structure
First, let's just get this out of the way. Conway Bowman is probably the coolest fly fisher I know. Who else could stand atop a Yeti cool in the bow of a wobbly bass skiff and cast flies on a sinking line to bucketmouths in brutal structure? And this is when he's not chasing mako…
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Video spotlight: Avoiding Spawners
Give the folks at Redington some credit (again!). Not only is the company preaching the Gospel when it comes to protecting spawning fish on redds, it's taking another chance by crafting a new series of "news" videos featuring fly fishing's version of Ron Burgundy in Bob Frankfurter. Regardless of the delivery (and I'm hearing all…
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Video spotlight: Selecting Sunglasses
Often, the most neglected aspect of fly fishing, particularly in saltwater environs, is the choice you make when it comes to sunglasses. Below, renowned artist and angler Jeff Currier simplifies the process, noting that he always carries two pairs of sunglasses on the boat—one for bright days and one for overcast or broken, cloudy days.…
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Video spotlight: How to Cast in Heavy Brush
For a small-stream angler, the video below serves as an excellent reminder of the need for cast economy. As Dave Jensen demonstrates in the video, keeping your elbow tight might seem counterintuitive when you're trying to keep your backcast from getting caught on willows or alders behind you, but it really works best, simply because…
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Video spotlight: Spawning rainbows
We see a lot of video footage of migrating salmon spawning in Alaska and in other places around the world, but we often forget that our inland trout and char run upstream—just like salmon—to spawn, too. The video below shows spawning rainbow trout spawning this spring in a small tributary stream on the Helena-Lewis and…
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