Tag: Smith

Copper Mine Threatens Smith River

Montana's Smith River is one of the most prized brown trout fisheries in the state, and certainly a top-tier river in the West. Only 900 or so permits are awarded each year for anglers to float the 59-mile stretch of water that's home to some of the fastest fishing for wild brown trout that see relatively few humans. All that is at risk thanks to a new...

Fishing With Your Kids

I don't have any kids, nor am I married, but I'm unquestionably a product of the age-old tradition of fathers taking their kids fishing. If it weren't for my dad taking me out on the water when I was as young as five years old, I don't think I'd have started down this path of fly fishing writing. That's why this column from George Smith caught my eye. Smith...

Video: Smith - Guide's Choice Sunglasses

One of Smith's newest pair of glasses for the fishing world, The Guide's Choice, incorporates "wide temples and an aggressive wrap for superior light protection, premium Italian spring hinges, megol nose and temple pads, a detachable sunglass leash, and choice of premium 8-base ChromaPop™ and Techlite glass lenses."

L.C. Smith

L.C. Smith is the artist behind the Art of the Trout Fly, an artist’s workshop in Australia specialising in prints and watercolours. “Fly tying fascinates me. Everything about it. The variety of patterns, the brilliant constructions, the traditions but also the exuberant and disciplined innovation that goes into shaping each fly.” As a painter Smith...