
"Today I offer a new rubric for temperament and personality: your true self faces either north, south, east or west."

They come and go like silvery ghosts and often the closest you can get to one of them is when you hear a whitebaiter recounting: “there was a real big one here yesterday.”
Read more...TROUT magazine editor Kirk Deeter gives us a super simple trick to remove any type of algae, weeds, or any other plant life your fly might have picked up while drifting in the water column. Not only does it remove debris … more
The Big Blackfoot River has captured many imaginations, in part because of the work of Norman Maclean and his novella A River Runs Through It. A recent piece by Kim Briggeman of The Missoulian features a conversation with founder and … more
In this week’s featured fly tying video Matt Grobert shows his techniques for tying Les Shannon’s Lemon Cahill. Grobert uses many of the same techniques and materials Shannon chose for this classic Catskill dry fly.
In honor of his life’s work, The Montana Arts Council recently awarded the prestigious “Montana’s Circle of American Masters in the Visual Folk and Traditional Arts” to bamboo rodmaker Glenn Brackett. Co-owner of Sweetgrass Rods in Twin Bridges, Brackett recently … more
Who captures the essence of trout better: Ernest Hemingway or Seamus Heaney?
A beautiful pattern poorly tied does not make for a beautiful fly. But an ugly pattern brilliantly tied might, because it embodies hope.
The claim to transmit “energy directly from your brain to the fly and casts with the precision of a laser pointer” is not a far cry from the truth, marketing jargon as it may be.
Woody Sexton was a fixture in early Florida Keys angling, a man who probably did as much to establish "the code" of saltwater guiding as anyone.
Handling a different implement, even for just an hour, gives you both an appreciation and a better understanding of what you are accomplishing with a fly rod.
"Today I offer a new rubric for temperament and personality: your true self faces either north, south, east or west."