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Voices from the River: Keeping it in the family
By Travis Banta It is safe to say we are a fishing family. Grandpa Lee crossed the Madison River to his favorite fishing hole in an old 1940's era Ford pickup. Grandma Margaret hated that bridge because it was essentially a couple of 2x12 boards and she didn’t like guiding the tires of that old Ford…
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Skills: Using a half-hitch to save your work
As an enthusiastic, yet ham-handed fly tier, there's nothing more frustrating to me than having a fly unravel before my very eyes thanks to a simple lapse in focus. It's aggravating. Tim Flagler to the rescue. This is actually a pretty old trick, but I was reminded of it recently as I watched a size…
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Video spotlight: The Wader Makers
If you're like me, you value good gear—stuff that lasts as long as the pricetag indicates it should last. I'm on my third summer with a pair of Simms G4 stocking-foot, zipper-front waders, and they've yet to let me down. They will eventually—wear and tear gets to everything. But when they do, it's comforting to…
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Students participate in planting day on Salmon Creek
Students from the Salisbury Central School (4th-8th grade) and Sharon Center School (1st – 8th grade) recently participated in a tree-planting event on Salmon Creek at Lime Rock Park in Northwest Connecticut. The event is part of an ongoing restoration initiative on the creek, a tributary to the Housatonic River. The work is helping to…
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Video spotlight: Caddis, Caddis, Caddis
Sometimes the bugs that make Mother's Day famous for fly fishers don't adhere to the calendar, but it's generally pretty close. From the Arkansas the Yakima to the Henry's Fork, the first couple weeks of May typically mean it's time for caddis flies. I had an epic caddis day on the Warm River, a tributary…
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More than 100 businesses pen letter supporting monuments
Dear Members of Congress: The undersigned hunting and fishing businesses are part of a thriving outdoor recreation industry that contributes $887 billion annually to the U.S. economy. We are writing in support of the Antiquities Act of 1906 and to request that it be used responsibly and in a way that supports the continuation of…
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Fly tying: SBR Sulphur Nymph
Nymphing has come a long way over the last couple of decades—many fly anglers will start with attractor nymphs on new water, simply because they make great searching patterns and tend to be top-of-mind when nothing is obviously hatching. But, even searching with attractors like a Prince or a basic hare's ear or pheasant tail…