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- Book Review: “25 Best National Parks to Fly Fish”
- How To: Fly Fishing for Keys Barracuda
- “Proselytizing”
- El Pescador: Traveling Into A Fishing Dream
- The Ones That Got Away: Good Books
- Inside the Box: Great Lakes Carp
- Closer Look: Simms G4 Pro and Patagonia Rio Gallegos II Waders
- “In the Land of Fishing Legends”
“Fine Lines”
Current and quotable.- "Standing on the shore, I once more cast my line into the stream, and I found the dream to be real, and the fable true." - Henry David Thoreau
- "We catch five-pounders, if we are lucky--not two-point-two-seven-kilogrammers. That is the way it always has been, and I hope will always remain." - Dave Witherow
- Zen and the art of fly fishing: what happens will happen, in a sort of unconscious, nonprogrammable, random, quantum way. - Robert DeMott
Cool Travel Gear
"What makes travel gear travel gear?" asks Dave Karczynski. To start with, he says, it should inspire confidence.
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- Tactics for Wary Trout
- Windows of Opportunity
- Which Knot: Blood Knot or Surgeon’s?
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- Casting: Controlling the Line Hand
- Repairing Fly Line Coatings
- Using Indicator Flies
Latest News
Tippets: Hatch Magazine Photo Contest, Fall Fly Fishing Tips
The 2016 Hatch Magazine Fly Fishing Photo Contest is working with bullsugar.org, Captains for Clean Water, and AFFTA to raise awareness of the Everglades water issues and to promote the #NowOrNeverglades declaration. Find more information about how to enter and … more
Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge Opening in 2017
A new flats fishing destination, Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge (ESB), is being built in the Mexican province of Quintana Roo. The ESB Lodge opens its inaugural season on April 2, 2017, and will provide access flats fishing for permit, tarpon, bonefish, … more
Video Hatch: “The Complete Angler: James Prosek”
The American Museum of Fly Fishing will honor James Prosek with the 2016 Izaak Walton Award at a ceremony on October 26, 2016. To mark the occasion, the AMFF has released the full version of Prosek’s Peabody Award-winning video “The …
Tippets: Fishing Streamers, Stocking Highcountry Lakes
The latest video in “The Bank” series from Jensen Fly Fishing is a two-part video on techniques and tactics for fishing streamers. From rigging to on-the-water strategies, view part one and part two to expand your abilities. Kris Millgate reports on … more
Books »
- Book Review: “25 Best National Parks to Fly Fish”
Authors Terry and Wendy Gunn tap into the collective knowledge of some of the most accomplished guides and anglers working the waters both inside and adjoining the nation’s most accessible national parks.
Flies »
- Inside the Box: Great Lakes Carp
Great Lakes carp guides Kevin Morlock, Steve Martinez and Austin Adduci share their favorite carp flies.
Tippets
Gear »
- Cool Travel Gear
"What makes travel gear travel gear?" asks Dave Karczynski. To start with, he says, it should inspire confidence.
People »
- “My Father’s Son”
MidCurrent's new columnist writes about fly fishing, ethics, and a father's legacy as seen through the eyes of a teenager.
Techniques »
- “The Golden Hour”
"Even though there is a golden hour every night, they seem like a rare treat, precious, not for wasting."
Travel »
- El Pescador: Traveling Into A Fishing Dream
El Pescador was the kind of place that my mom said Dad would’ve loved, all of us being there together.