Bill Houze is a young guide, his name is not that known but he has enormous prestige among the fishermen who frequent Key West, the Mecca of fly-fishing for permit. He has guided countless days every year acquiring the ...
John Juracek is a fisherman and photographer from West Yellowstone, Montana. For twenty-some years he was a partner in Blue Ribbon Flies, a local specialty fly fishing shop. After earning a degree in Fisheries Biology ...
As result of the numerous calls and emails I get from people coming from all over the world, I have decided to elaborate this short article about the fishing opportunities around Miami for those that are not familiar wit...
Persistence. Diligence. Perseverance. Vigilance. These are characteristics that flats anglers must possess if they are to learn the ways of the flats, the habits and habitats of bonefish, tarpon and permit. Aside from oc...
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 ...
World Fish Migration Day 2014 (WFMD) is a one day global initiative, with local events worldwide, to create awareness on the importance of open rivers and migratory fish. WFMD is held to improve the publics’ understand...
Conservation in the West — particularly efforts to protect key parcels of public lands — is trapped in the partisan gridlock that grips Washington. But the package of lands bills that passed Congress in mid-December ...
Michael and Joe Brooks—the great-nephews of the late Joe Brooks—developed the original idea for making this film on a river in New Zealand. Both Michael and Joe are avid and accomplished fly fishers. They have known ...
Over the last few years, i have really come to appreciate just how lucky I am to live here in Reno, as it relates to fishing. Not only am i located within a few hours of dozens of major rivers, hundreds of lakes...
I'll be updating my reports from time to time on the Upper Delaware, West Branch Delaware, East Branch Delaware, Beaverkill, and Neversink Rivers. Visit www.fishstories.net for more info
MID JULY IS A PERFECT TIME FOR LOTS OF MONTANA RIVERS AND IT’S HARD NOT TO LOVE THE MEADOW SECTION OF THE GALLATIN RIVER AS IT FLOWS OUT OF WEST YELLOWSTONE PARK.
The Tongass is America’s Salmon Forest and now we have the chance to keep it that way.More than 70 unique watersheds within the Tongass have been identified as the most important to salmon and trout by a group of scien...
On Monday, a demolition crew will begin removing the Veazie Dam on the Penobscot River just above Bangor, Me. The Veazie is the lowest of the Penobscot dams and closest to the river’s mouth on the Maine coast. It is al...
Top 3 Fly Fishing spots near Vancouver BC
Are you keen on Fly Fishing? Well so are we! We’ve been fly fishing
some of the Best places within a few hours of Vancouver since the early
1990’s. If you've got the bug f...
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 ...
On Monday, a demolition crew will begin removing the Veazie Dam on the Penobscot River just above Bangor, Me. The Veazie is the lowest of the Penobscot dams and closest to the river’s mouth on the Maine coast. It is al...
by Chris Hunt I'd lived in Idaho for 15 years, and I'd never fished the Middle Fork of the Boise, despite the accolades my western Idaho friends kept piling atop the river's reputaiton. In Idaho, it's a constant battl...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields?MB: I grew up interested in art and drawing and art became my major in college. I went on to advertising ...
The
roar of the big block Chevy 454 was near
deafening as Garner, a.k.a. “G”, throttled down the un‐baffled beast of a V‐8,
sending the airboat skidding into white sugar sand covered by a skinny five
inches of ...
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...
Last chance to be prepared for Father's Day & summer fishing with these popular fly patterns. And we'll pay the postage.
Cathy's Super Beetle Hi-Viz Wing Selection.
You asked, we listened. We've added a red hi-viz ...
Fd: How were your beginnings in fly fishing? Mike: My life as a fly fisherman started when I was 14 years old, annoying the local estuary population of all manner of fish, including the occasional sea-run brown trout. On...
I awake in the middle of a big, soft bed in a room that I don’t recognize – an omen of good adventure that I’ve known since childhood. The walls are planks of wood that smell of the forest even though they were mi...
Driving through the backcountry of Slovenia and avoiding the highway for the majority of the trip I was awestruck by the sheer wildness, grandeur and splendour that nature offered. Following the contours of the Julian Al...
A photographer walks into a bar and finds a crumpled man ploughing through endless glasses of vodka Bloody Marys. Chewing on a boozy olive from the elixir, the man begins to cough and choke and shoot tomato-y fizz from h...
This project stems from a recent conversation with
my friend Jason. Jason had just bought a new home and, sadly, began filling it
with IKEA furniture. Luckily, he longed for a conversation-starter piece,
s...
Fd: How did art merge with fly fishing in your life? TS: As far back as I can remember, I have had a love for both drawing and fishing; however, it wasn’t until the fall in 2009 when it occurred to me that I could or ...
Yesterday saw our first outing to Lough Sheelin in county Cavan, the weather was perfect with a small north west breeze we ventured out of Kilnahard pier and made our way to Orangefield where we saw fish rising.It was ti...
Diane has been a professional watercolour artist for over 22 years, and the Trout Unlimited Canada 2009 Artist of the Year, Diane was born in Montreal and currently resides in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island, British Col...
Hydropower plants are one of the main causes for the decline ofnumerous fish species in the Mediterranean region. This is the result of a new study commissioned bynature conservation organisations EuroNatur and Riverwatc...
The Western North America states and provinces are home to literally tens of thousands of superb trout lakes. Many of these waters are rich in nutrients which allow them to support an abundant and diverse aquatic inverte...
I love fly fishing. These days, I do not get to ply the waters nearly as much as I would like, however the spirit of being knee-deep in a fast stream, or kicking my way around a high mountain lake in my float tube seems ...
Last night, members of Congress came up with a bipartisan agreement to include significant land protections within a defense authorization bill that will likely come up for a vote in the House of Representatives this wee...
Phil Monahan is one of the most recognized fly fishing editors of these times. He is the editor of OrvisNews.com and his articles on techniques, conservation, tying and pretty much everything regarding fly-fishing, are r...
Presentation – Success in low
and clear riversThis was an account of a week when I had been guiding Kelvin. He has been out with me a number of times and I have to say his fly fishing has improved so much in a year tha...
Fd: How’s your life these days in Montana? What spots do you fish?Ben Pierce: Life in Montana is great. I grew up on a small dairy farm in central Massachusetts and headed west when I was 18 years old. My grandfather t...
Fd: When did you start fly fishing? Can you tell us about your memories from those times?Paula: I started fly fishing from a young age. For as far back as I can remember my dad had taken me out fishing with him. My you...
Fd: How did the idea of producing fly-fishing videos come up? Troutification: It basically started when Anders bought a DSLR that could shoot video many years ago, we started filming us fishing and ended up with a lot o...
Jack Dennis is The Man.Posted on February 23, 2014 by D Dauphinee An excerpt from the essay, “I’m Goin’ to Jackson” 2012 From the book,“Something’s Wrong with My Fly”The year, 1980.I had taken a Greyhou...
Do you have a river of your dreams, a place that comes first to your mind whenever you think “flyfishing?” It may be a memory snapshot of somewhere you’ve already been or a mental compilation of everything that is ...
Last month, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust’s Bahamas Initiative waded into the fabled waters of South Andros. While a handful of bonefish had previously been tagged by guides in South Andros, this was the first large-scale...
Cathy and Barry Beck are very well known for their guiding, fishing and specially for their photography. They travel to destinations such as New Zealand, Africa, Argentina, Alaska, Bahamas, Mexico, Belize, Venezuela, Mon...
Choosing the Right Fly Line BackingBrodyMonday, February 16, 2015Choosing the right fly line backing could make the difference when you hook that fish of a lifetime. Fly Line backing is something most freshwater fly fish...
1. A Dream TripA trip is probably the best gift you can give to a fly fisherman. No matter what destination you choose, the angler that receives this special present will surely be excited and probably start planning th...
Fd: Can you tell us about your beginnings and setting up your guiding service in British Columbia? I started guiding back in 1996 mostly as a flyfishing guide for Salmon and Trout on local rivers and some interior lakes ...
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: 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...
Fd: How did your career in fly-fishing art start? Shirley: I have always loved to fish and watch others catch fish. When I was quite young I was always the one who wanted to go with my father (who was not a fisherman) o...
Fd: How did you first get into fly fishing and tying? Joe: I grew up with a fishing rod in my hand. I used to have a backpack that was full with a tackle box and supplies that I took everywhere with me. I started off in ...