by Tom Davis - Tuesday, Jul 5th, 2016
A smallmouth bass was rushing Winston Ostrow’s bug in skinny water, pushing a tsunami-sized bow wave, and I was squealing like a little girl.
OhmygodWinstondoyouseethatherehecomesohmygodthat’sunbelievable …
by Kris Millgate - Friday, Jul 1st, 2016
The temperature is high, the bug count is high and spirits are running even higher. I hear hollers up and down the canyon and I know our timing is prefect. We’ve hit the big bug hatch on Idaho’s South Fork of the Snake River and we are fishing one of the legendary days of wet-wade season, those few summer weeks when anglers shed coats and waders to fish in shorts and flip flops.
In all reality, legendary days are talked about more often than they are experienced. I haven’t hit a legendary day in years, but I’m hitting one now and my senses are on high alert.
by Chad Shmukler - Thursday, Jun 30th, 2016
After years of tireless advocacy from groups like Trout Unlimited, the Susitna River Coalition and others, the ongoing effort by the Alaskan government to put a mega hydroelectric power dam on the Susitna River has come to an end. Yesterday, Alaskan governor Bill Walker announced that, as part of $1.5 billion in extensive budget cuts, the Susitna-Watana Dam project would be cancelled.
The Susitna is the nation's fourth longest undammed river and is home to Alaska's fourth largest king salmon run. The dam, if completed, would have been the second tallest in the United States.
by Chris Hunt - Tuesday, Jun 28th, 2016
The charter terminal at the Winnipeg Airport is manic this morning. We’re part of a group of anglers awaiting the conclusion of a long journey—one more flight on a tough little turboprop, and we’re there.
Reindeer Lake.
The guys mill around the terminal, watching as the crew weighs and organizes a cargo hold burgeoning with fishing gear. One rod case is a good 12 feet long, spurring me to remark to my buddy Mike, “Who’s fishing with the pole vault?”
by Todd Tanner - Monday, Jun 27th, 2016
Folks who’ve been fly fishing for a while remember when pretty much every fresh-water angler wore a many-pocketed fly fishing vest. You can still buy them, of course — Patagonia, Orvis and Simms continue to market really nice vests for the retro crowd — but they’ve more or less gone out of fashion, replaced by an ever-growing number of chest packs and hip packs and back packs and sling packs.
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