by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Jun 14th, 2018
Canada’s First Nations people of the far north are viscerally connected to the region’s fish and have been for eons. Even today, many North Country lodges and outfitters hire native guides to run anglers around the thousands upon thousands of boreal lakes, simply because these people know the water, the fish and the environment.
by Matthew Reilly - Wednesday, Jun 13th, 2018
The outdoor sporting lot, perhaps more than any other breed I’ve met, seem to share a desire to see an earlier time, when parking lots and strip malls were still farms, and the feedlots were still unfelled valley forests—filters of rich freshwater veins.
by Spencer Durrant - Tuesday, Jun 12th, 2018
Orvis has put out an impressive amount of new gear in the past year. From the new Helios 3 rods to revamped waders, jackets, backpacks, and vests, it feels like everything in their catalog got updated.
by Tom Davis - Monday, Jun 11th, 2018
More than half-a-century ago—1965, to be exact—my dad took me on my first Canadian fishing trip. Grandpa Davis came, too. Our destination was Lake of the Woods, a place that loomed so mythically in my eight-year-old imagination that its shorelines might have been cobbled with gold.
by Cosmo Genova - Thursday, Jun 7th, 2018
I’ve never been a purist and will do just about anything to get a fish to eat, but there is something undeniably special about dry fly fishing. When the conditions are right on a river like the Delaware, I’d almost rather search for hours without a cast, waiting for a rise, than to pound the bottom where I might have better luck.
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