Invest in Your Angling, and Your Community: Join a Fly-Fishing Club
There's a great new documentary out about the wonderful benefits of joining a club. Guess what? Joining a fly-fishing club is even better, and will make you a better angler.
Some lines on knots
When it comes to fly-fishing knot tying skill, it's truly a tale of the haves and the have-knots. OK, ok. I promise not to get things too twisted up here, pun-wise at least.
So long summer, come winter's hope.
If you start summer steelheading earlier than October, does it get less bittersweet?
Invest in Your Angling, and Your Community: Join a Fly-Fishing Club
There's a great new documentary out about the wonderful benefits of joining a club. Guess what? Joining a fly-fishing club is even better, and will make you a better angler.
Remembering John Gierach
Recalling the shaper of a Platonic fly-fishing reality, in his own words
High-torque and low-torque activities
Digging in on the progression from Aspen Extreme to Trout Bum (RIP John Gierach), Grant Petersen CFS GOAT, SalmonSuperHwy lauded by the White House, and more
Fly Fishing in the Italian Alps Part 5: The Packing List
It's not the be-all end-all Ultimate Fly Fishing Destination Packing List, but it's what I wound up bringing to Italy, where the trout fishing is much like at home.
Fly fishing in the Italian Alps, part 4: Nude beaches and remote reaches
In Piemonte, on the Sesia and Mastallone rivers, anything is possible with the right attitude.
Fly fishing in the Italian Alps, part 3: Young marble giants
Searching for slabs on the Passer river in Südtirol / Trentino Alto-Adige
Fly fishing in the Italian Alps, part 2: Blowouts, high water, and mystery trout on the Swiss border
Can you help identify this strange trout variant? Salmo truta helvetica?
Fly fishing in the Italian Alps, part 1: Decoding access
The first in a series on fly fishing in the Italian alps, on getting licensed, and the main differences between fly fishing in Italy and the USA.
What we give up fly fishing
On Adam Phillips, and finding, and re-finding our identities as anglers
Hot weather and trout fishing
A few top tips—and one essential piece of gear—can help keep fish safe when the temps get high.