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Fly Fishing Show 2025 tour kicks off: Dates and details
The annual gathering of brands, fly shops, presenters, fly tyers, and anglers starts this weekend
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Finding the comforts of winter fishing — Part I
Tips for staying comfortable, safe, and making the most of cold-weather fishing
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Serious cold-weather gear: Skwala's new RS Outpost Jacket
Are longer winter angling days on tap?

Latest News

Fly Fishing Show 2025 tour kicks off: Dates and details
The annual gathering of brands, fly shops, presenters, fly tyers, and anglers starts this weekend
Serious cold-weather gear: Skwala's new RS Outpost Jacket
Are longer winter angling days on tap?
The kids are right: Montana Supreme Court rules in landmark climate case
Montana's highest court affirms state's responsibility to act on climate change
Skwala to donate 25 percent of profits to the Wild Steelhead Coalition
This coming Monday, buy some gear, help wild steelhead

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Tips & Technique

winter fly fishing
Finding the comforts of winter fishing — Part I
Tips for staying comfortable, safe, and making the most of cold-weather fishing
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For those about to shop
Hard truths about the holiday season
musky fly fishing
Design attributes of successful musky flies
How to build flies that will effectively hook, hold, and land a musky

Latest Conservation

The kids are right: Montana Supreme Court rules in landmark climate case
Montana's highest court affirms state's responsibility to act on climate change
Skwala to donate 25 percent of profits to the Wild Steelhead Coalition
This coming Monday, buy some gear, help wild steelhead
Don't swallow the lumpy bits
In many places, wild rivers are becoming an endangered species
Walleye are the latest threat to Snake River salmon and steelhead
Another non-native predator is imperiling endangered salmon

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Travel

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The Silent Spotter: Fly fishing films are good again
A different kind of fly fishing hero
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A northern Rockies adventure
Fly-out fishing the wilds of British Columbia
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Lake effect: Patagonia isn't just about its rivers
The fly fishing bounty of Patagonia's lakes

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How Great Thou Art
I've been to a lot of funerals lately
For those about to shop
Hard truths about the holiday season
Don't swallow the lumpy bits
In many places, wild rivers are becoming an endangered species
You have to work for it
The fly fishing lessons you'll never forget

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Photography

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A year at The School of Trout
A collection of images from the world's finest fly fishing school
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The Fish of a Lifetime
A sneak peek into Matt Harris' 656-page fly fishing opus
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Trout school
Fly fishing immersion on the banks of the famed Henry's Fork

Latest Gear

Serious cold-weather gear: Skwala's new RS Outpost Jacket
Are longer winter angling days on tap?
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Reader favorites from the past year
Review: Winston Pure 2 fly rod
Will Winston's new incarnation of its dry fly specialist please light line aficionados?
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Hard truths about the holiday season
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    The Silent Spotter: Fly fishing films are good again

    If Off the Grid Studio’s newest film, The Silent Spotter, is a tale of things to come, then I’m happy to report that fly fishing films are good again. If reading that...

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    The kids are right: Montana Supreme Court rules in landmark climate case

    In 2020, 16 young activists from Montana filed a historic lawsuit charging the state of Montana with violating its constitution by prioritizing fossil fuel development...

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    Skwala to donate 25 percent of profits to the Wild Steelhead Coalition
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    The Silent Spotter: Fly fishing films are good again

    If Off the Grid Studio’s newest film, The Silent Spotter, is a tale of things to come, then I’m happy to report that fly fishing films are good again. If reading...

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    Finding the comforts of winter fishing — Part I

    I’d be lying if I told you I love fly fishing during the winter. Maybe, in my teens or twenties, I loved the isolation and the challenge of fishing in harsh conditions....

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    For those about to shop
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    Design attributes of successful musky flies

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    Fly Fishing Show 2025 tour kicks off: Dates and details

    The 2025 tour of the annual Fly Fishing Show kicks off this weekend, January 17-19, in Marlborough, MA. The show’s customary first stop will showcase the usual vast array...

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    Serious cold-weather gear: Skwala's new RS Outpost Jacket
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    The kids are right: Montana Supreme Court rules in landmark climate case

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