Not everyone can afford to go out with high-priced guides, or stay at fancy fly fishing lodges, or attend top fly fishing schools. At the same time, most folks I know lack the disposable income to buy $1,000 fly rods, $800 waders and $300 sunglasses. But that doesn’t mean fly fishers with more modest financial resources can’t become stellar anglers. Here are a few suggestions that any fly fisher, regardless of his or her economic status, should be able to utilize.

The glut of fish-and-wildlife bullshit on social media is not just infuriating and depressing; it’s dangerous. It hurts fish and wildlife because it dumbs down an already fish-and-wildlife-dumb public, giving it false expectations and rendering it impotent for political influence and environmental activism.