No drag, just drift

Striving to get even with the flow

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

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.

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.