by Todd Tanner - Thursday, May 7th, 2015
She couldn’t do it.
I don’t remember her name, or where she was from, or why she wanted to fish the Madison with a guide. All I can tell you for sure is that she couldn’t catch a trout on a nymph. Not on a bet. Not to save her life. To paraphrase one of my favorite authors:
by Ben Kryzinski - Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
Drifter is a rod company that many anglers likely haven't heard of. A small, boutique rod building company out of Denver, Drifter likes to make it known that they build hundreds of fly rods per year, not thousands. Their latest offering, the Drifter Covert, is described as a rod that is "ideally tuned to the needs of trout fishermen."
by Chad Shmukler - Monday, May 4th, 2015
Alex oars us through a relatively shallow but wide and burly riffle on the lower reaches of Argentina's famed Collón Curá river, working hard to bring the boat across to a back eddy on the far bank before the current sweeps us farther downstream. It’s a fine looking stretch of water, to say the absolute least. As it turns, from one side of the river to the next, a streambed of terraced shelves is plainly visible to the eye, each shelf creating a spillover beneath the riffle’s surface currents, most of which are sure to be rife with trout.
by Kurt Beardslee - Friday, May 1st, 2015
In Washington, anglers do not count steelhead by the number of fish caught per day, but by fish caught per season. This grueling reality has earned steelhead the moniker “the fish of a thousand casts.” But this epithet is not a tribute to steelhead. Rather it is a dubious distinction because steelhead are not particularly hard to catch. They are just very hard to find.
by Chad Shmukler - Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2015
I’ve been a proponent of rubber-soled boots since they first became available, having eagerly tossed my felt-soled boots into a corner in the basement where they’ve remained ever since. Whether or not felt soles conclusively play a role in transporting river-destroying pests like didymo and whirling disease was always of less interest to me than the common sense likelihood that they do, and so giving them up was easy.
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