Newsletter - Current Flow State (Page 2)

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An adult and child stand by a pond where wispy clouds and far-off trees are reflected in the surface

No drag, just drift

Striving to get even with the flow

A curious-looking fellow in a patterned fleece sits foreground in a studio, with a tackle box and a fly rod in the background on a table. The super reads "Nick Parish Fly Fishing Instructor'

The Intro to Fly Fishing class in the spotlight

A short video introduction to the Portland Community College Intro to Fly Fishing course, courtesy student-angler Nathaniel Chapman

A caddis pupa with a stone case crawls on a rock while a salmon smolt looks on. OPB watermark is visible in the lower right

Vivid indicators of life

Wading for caddis, fishing nymphs with suspenders

Fish on film

Roll cameras, because the Fly Fishing Film Tour came to town.

The Oscars: CFS' 2025 Fly Fishing Film Tour Awards

There are four questions a pretty good fly-fishing film has to answer in order to be considered truly great.

Rolling your own

If you wish to make a fly rod from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

River reads, post-hibernation edition

Grand Canyon dreaming, communing with the fishes, Jackson County's finest, Tokyo shopping, and a great smallmouth bass learning opportunity

Hibernation reads, 2025

When we can't fish and make stories, we read stories. Sometimes those are fly-fishing stories, and sometimes they're not. Here are three that rolled across the bedside table, from the Grand Canyon to the Mariana Trench to the Carhartteratti of Jackson Hole's Persephone Bakery.

Stand up and tell 'em! 📣

A gentle nudge to find your voice in conservation and activism.

Don't get GASed 💨

Snow Peak launches a fly-fishing line, avoiding GAS, we find the safest place on the Oregon Coast to be in a tsunami, and more.

A river in Africa meandering, in the process of forming an oxbow lake.

Meanderings: Following the thalweg from the Willamette to the Seine

First flies, finding the thalweg, good eau in Paris, and some riparian art

Leaky waders and slinky links

Here's another thing to do this winter: Fix your waders. And, while you're at it, get stoked with a visit to one of the fly-fishing film fests, and generally click your heart out with some buttery links.