CATCH AND
RELEASE: HOW IT CAME TO BEToday, it is
hard to imagine a quality fishery where fly fishers do not return their catch to the water
alive. This is the standard on the rivers in Patagonia. Releasing their fish is
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Fd: How did you start in fly fishing? Who got you interested in the sport? Charles: That’s an easy one. My father. He was an avid salmon angler who, even in the 1950’s travelled the world for fishing – mostly salmo...
Gary Borger is one of the world’s foremost fly fishing educators. He has been a fly fisher since 1955 and has taught classes and lectured internationally on all aspects of fly fishing for trout and salmon. A free-lance...
Internationally known as Willy, there is no need to say his surname to know who we are talking about. He has been a guide for 30 years in Bariloche, Esquel, Rio Grande and in several countries, for instance, in Venezuela...
Just when spring is well along the way to the onset of summer, the retamas line the roadways with their bright yellow flowers bringing with them reminiscences of their European origins. They were brought to Patagonia by ...
Noah Rosenthal, Los Angeles, CAIt was Tuesday September 2nd and I was in the middle of the last shooting day of the feature filmBand of Robbers (a modern day telling of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults) when the email ...
Join us March 12-13, 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island USA for the International Didymo Conference. Proudly hosted by the Invasive Species Action Network and Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel, the conference will b...
Fd: So tell us, who is ATA Lodge and where is ATA Lodge located? ATA Lodge is a family owned and operated lodge on the fabled Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay, South West Alaska. Wayne (myself) and Jacob (my son) are t...
BOOK REVIEW: Are Trout South African?01
OCTOBER 2013 - 07:07 By NEELS
BLOMNEARLY 20 years after South Africans
asserted their rights as citizens, the nation still struggles to decide who and
what belongs to the country, ...
As this year draws to a close, Christmas Carols having filled our homes with strains of Holiday cheer, perhaps you are a bit like me and your mind starts to wander with the anticipation for what the New Year will bring. ...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields? DW: My father was an avid fly-fisherman as well as an artist/painter, so I grew up around both. From a ...
What is Whirling
Disease?
The whirling disease parasite, Myxobolus
cerebralis, is native to Europe and was first described in Germany in 1903.
Whirling disease is the descriptive side effect
produced by a complex rela...
Fd: Firstly, what is the film Vermillion all about?KSS: Vermillion is a good representation of our creative studio. It’s a film about a love for fly fishing, a band of brothers, admiration for nature and our state of A...
Without even thinking about it I was back at the Jurassic Lake plateau. By observing the lava surroundings of the green pond I had a strong feeling that in this basaltic plateau, deeply eroded by the winds, there is some...
Ancient human traces reflected through the tools and art scattered around the basaltic plateau where the Strobel Lake is located get together with exceptional trout fishing, offering to the traveler an image of Patagonia...
Fd: Can you tell about the beginnings of your outfitting service? I started Keystone Anglers Guide Service as a way of introducing new people to the sport of fly fishing. I feel that sometimes the sport can be a little c...
I heard a yell and looked down at Cooper a 16 year old from Colorado who could fish pretty well. He was persistent in fishing a streamer or mouse all day because he was hoping for a big rainbow to grab his fly. His jaw w...
Andreas Andersson is a professional fly tyer from Sweden, he's part of the Partridge of Redditch and DeerCreek pro teams. Here's more about him and his flies.Fd: How did you first get into fly fishing and tying?Andreas:...
Fd: How did fly fishing and photography get together in your life? Nick: I grew up fly fishing from a very young age. My mother is the major angler in my family and there hasn’t been a day in my life that I’ve had w...
Fall in Alaska generates mixed emotions for me. By mid September the leaves on the birch trees have begun to turn a vibrant yellow-gold. The berry bushes have changed to various shades of crimson and the quaking aspens...
Fd: What are your first memories related to fly fishing? Jasper: My very first fly fishing related memory is from my grandmother's summer place in southern Sweden when I was maybe 8 or 9. It was the only cabin by a littl...
Nature lover, true fly fisherman and an exquisite photographer with a special sensitivity, he shows his three passions in his fantastic fly fishing images that have gone around the world. He has collaborated with Nationa...
Fd: Where did your love of making watercolors of trout come from?Carol: I moved to Dillon, Montana, a fly fishing paradise, and a friend asked me for fish and landscape paintings for a beautiful little fishing cabin that...
Agency proposes mining restrictions in Bristol Bay to protect salmon, world-class angling and 14,000 American jobs.ANCHORAGE, AK – Sportsmen around the country applaud the EPA’s release of its draft determination ...
We get a lot of emails from anglers that are just getting into fly fishing asking us about the basic setup to get started in the sport. That's why we came up with this short list of essentials. Of course, there are lots ...
Lake Strobel is located in the plateau of Patagonia, in the middle of the Santa Cruz province in Argentina. Its name comes from the missionary Jesuit priest Matías Strobel, who worked in North Patagonia in the mid XVIII...
Fd: Artist and fisherman. What came first? How did it all begin?
Dan: It began with art. I have been blessed with some artistic ability, and at a very young age, I was drawing. That developed into a lifelong pursuit...
The concepts of "beautiful" or "good" river quite subjective. Typically, we put in them different meanings, but there are common points such as untouched, beautiful landscape around, comfortable size of the river, conv...
With only 3 months to go before opening day on the Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay, Alaska; ATA Lodge is looking forward to another great season. It is about this time we start to get that itchy feeling that starts ti...
I'm the author of a children's fly fishing book published in 2018, and a favorite of lots of folks in the fly fishing world and beyond. It won the AFFTA/IFTD Award for Best New Entertainment and Education Product that ye...
Jim Teeny is one of the most innovative fly fishermen. His famous Teeny nymph and his series of fly lines have changed the sport forever, becoming a must for every fly angler. Jim has held ten IGFA world records, and his...
Fd: What can you tell us about your new book: Wild Trout? Wild Trout is a bilingual (English and Spanish) book that covers the basic aspects of the biology of wild trout in Patagonia. Its 300 pages show unique photos acc...
Jim Klug is the co-owner, producer, and writer for Confluence Films (www.confluencefilms.com), creators of DRIFT, RISE, CONNECT, and the upcoming film WAYPOINTS. He is one of the best photographers of the industry and hi...
First published in Rod and Reel: 2/15/1985Roadkill StreamersOf the 364 four pound (or larger) trout painted on the walls of DanBailey's Fly Shop in Livingston Montana:7% were taken on small wet flies.12% were t...
A few days fishing in the north of the Neuquén province, in Argentina, made us realize that we can still dream about Patagonia and other sites that have not yet lost the magic that enchanted Darwin in his trips.We were ...
Fly Tyer, Spring 1988Fast Sinking Streamers"Aren't there any good sculpin patterns that don't have the deer hair head," I asked? "You bet," said George Kelly. "I've got one I call the Foxy Lady and I really believe in i...
Trout fishing invites one to meditate and at the same time gives us the chance of understanding the deep meaning of a sunrise, the trees, or the wind on our faces.The quilted moss over the rocks turns into an ideal site ...
June 8th sees the opening of this fabled river to fishing, and it is one of our favorite times of the year to be on the river. The resident fish have overwintered with limited food available and no fishing pressure for ...
I will speak about the fishing in a few lines but let me tell you something else. After some years of travelling slowly over “The Plateau of the Death” (La Meseta de la Muerte”), the local name of the Strobel field...
Five years have passed since my last trip through the Yelcho Lake area. From that moment, the tales of fishing for Tuna and Sierra fish in the sea always resounded in my mind, and it is just 45 km away from the Yelcho Lo...
Sprawling across more than 3,400 square miles of mostly Wyoming territory, Yellowstone National Park houses a rich blend of exploding geysers, an active volcano, its very own Grand Canyon, world-class waters with native ...
A new edition of an already popular line with the InTouch Trout LT.Many fisheries require delicate presentations to fool trout, so RIO added ConnectCore Technology to the popular Trout LT line with theInTouch Trout LT. T...
Hello …I would like to introduce you to a little river I have visited so many times before, with fly fishing rod in my hand and had a unique experience every time-in any season.I am talking about the river Iška in pr...
1) How was Mañihuales Lodge born?Mañihuales Eco Lodge was born from a series of events that began around 2013, when the former owners of a land close to the Mañihuales river, in the middle of the Chilean Patagonia, ...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields? Both fishing and art were things I did not really choose, they are just a part of who I am. In terms of...
Bristol Bay is a 40,000-square mile watershed with nine rivers and it is one of the last unspoiled areas on Earth.The Pebble deposit is a massive storehouse of gold, copper and molybdemum, located in the headwaters of th...
“Because we dared follow our heart we changed part of history” - Mark Dubois“When I’m not afraid to die I’m free to do anything” - Mark DuboisMy early years in San Martín de los Andes
were uniquely special, ...
Fd: First, why do you think every fly fisherman should visit Wyoming at least once?Lack of other people. Wyoming is the least populated state in the Union and there seems to be a direct correlation between the quality o...
The human condition drives us to be participating with our environment. For some of us, that might be eating a fish we caught or savoring the meat we have hunted and labored for. For others it might be hiking and ...
Matt Schliske is a well-known photographer and bamboo rod maker. His pictures have been seen in the pages of Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod and Reel, and American Angler magazines and his love for fly-fishing made him want to go...