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Tenkara casting in the wind

Tips for keeping your tenkara rod on the water, even on windy days

by Constantin Huet - Thursday, Oct 8th, 2015

Photo: Tenkara USA

Tenkara has proven itself to be a simple, yet incredibly versatile form of fly-fishing, which has helped properl the rise in all forms of tenkara equipment since the sport’s stormy uptick that began roughly in 2009, when the name was still exotic and unfamiliar to most. The simplicity, beauty and effortlessness of tenkara has since gained many followers, from previously avid fly-fishermen to beginners and debutants alike. However, one natural challenge to tenkara anglers has limited its use: wind.

RIO intros new Skagit Trout Max

Another new product for two-handed trout anglers

by Ben Kryzinski - Friday, Oct 2nd, 2015

Mike McCune casting the new RIO Skagit Trout Max on the Missouri River.

RIO announced its new Skagit Trout Max earlier this year along with a bevy of other new products, noting it as a line developed for two-handed trout anglers, but providing only a few other details.

When the music's over

Turn out the lights

by Todd Tanner - Thursday, Oct 1st, 2015

Photo: Mike Lewelling, National Park Service

Those of us who’ve been fly fishing for a while have a tendency to drift gently toward nostalgia. If we go back far enough, our memories reveal uncrowded rivers and eager trout, while our sport, which now sprawls across an entire “fly fishing industry,” seems less an industry and more a collection of memorable characters. At the same time, the writing, or at least the best of the writing, displays a patina of intimacy and respect you’d be hard pressed to find today.

Prince of Wales

It might just be Alaska's best kept fly fishing secret

by Chris Hunt - Wednesday, Sep 30th, 2015

A pink salmon, or "humpy", makes its way up river to spawn (photo: B. Finestone).

For a remote Alaskan island being made famous by the latest in reality show kitsch, this place is actually pretty easy to get to, all things considered.

Yes, the funky community of Port Protection—the subject the National Geographic Channel’s newest Alaska-based reality show depicting the challenging nature of daily life in the middle of a watery nowhere—rests at the northern tip of Prince of Wales Island and remains accessible only by boat or float plane, but you might be surprised just how easy life can be on the island’s sophisticated, if a bit rustic, road system.

A disagreement

It's been a rough summer

by Chad Shmukler - Tuesday, Sep 29th, 2015

It’s been a rough summer.

Not rough in any kind of honest, absolute sense. But rough in the sort of relative sense where things like middle-class white men not getting to spend enough leisure time fishing and tiny brook trout not having their normal amount of cold, clean water to frolic around in are the sort of things that are taken with a grave measure of seriousness.