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Review: Korkers River Ops wading boots

Korkers' latest offering might be their best wading boot yet

by Spencer Durrant - Sunday, Jun 6th, 2021

The Korkers River Ops wading boots (photo: Spencer Durrant).

I’ve been wearing Korkers boots for a while now — long enough that I’m not sure when I bought my first pair. Wading boots, for all their importance, lack the sex appeal of rods, waders, or reels. But since that first set of boots, I’ve watched Korkers engage in a consistent effort to bring new, innovative, interesting products to market.

The carp refuge

On the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge, there's a lot to love

by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Jun 3rd, 2021

A carp frolics in the shallows of the Snake River, as it courses through the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge in central Idaho (photo: Chris Hunt).

It might seem counterintuitive to spend good taxpayer money to keep rangeland cows out of a backwater bay of the Snake River that’s already an environmental war zone.

My evanescent heroes

The imperiled piping plover makes its stand against human encroachment

by Tom Davis - Wednesday, Jun 2nd, 2021

Photo: cadop / cc2.0

The footpath, worn into sand the color of graham crackers, led over low, grass-stippled dunes to the beach on Lake Superior. A violent squall had rocked our little cottage in the dead of night, but now, beneath a sky so blue it hurt, the big lake was in a happy mood. A soft breeze, not quite warm but not cold, either, pulsed from the west; what surf there was, fizzing lightly in its ebb-and-flow against the cobbled shore, seemed as calmly imperturbable as the breathing of a sleeping god.

Tenkara rod Euro-nymphing

Tenkara rods are ideal tools for casting and fishing Euro-nymphing rigs

by George Daniel - Thursday, May 27th, 2021

Photo: Chad Shmukler

The European nymphing trend in the fly fishing community continues to gain steam. The reason for this is simple: for many anglers, it’s the easiest way to consistently catch fish. Given that approximately 80 percent of a trout’s feeding is conducted below the surface, and the majority of that feeding is done close to the streambed, it stands to reason that your best chance of catching a trout is by fishing your flies sub-surface, deep in the water column. That means fishing nymphs.

Trout are in hot water in 2021

Another year of dangerous water temperatures is on tap for trout, here's what you can do

by Ben Kryzinski - Wednesday, May 26th, 2021

Trout handling practices become paramount when water temperatures rise (photo: Chad Shmukler).

Whether the calendar agrees or not, summer has arrived to much of trout country, and it won’t be long before we start hearing about heat-induced fishing restrictions, or fishing closures altogether. Many eastern locales have experienced a rain-starved spring, leading to below-normal streamflows and reservoir levels, and above-normal stream temperatures. In the West, it’s another lean water year in a series of lean water years.