Category Archives: Techniques

With the depth of perception always offered readers, Louis Cahill recounts his experience from wading the Denver Carp Slam on the once pristine South Platte to small headwaters in Wyoming, all with a nagging leg. But through hardships and pain, … more →

Oliver White shows us how to cast super heavy sink-tip lines in very strong wind near the end of the earth at Kau Tuapen lodge in Terra Del Fuego, Argentina.

Initially brought to North America in the 1800s as a food source, the common carp soon became a red-headed stepchild to fly fishers in the US. However, in most of the rest of the world, as Kirk Deeter points out … more →

Overuse injuries, while common in fly fishers, are often overlooked. Associated with equipment as well as casting stroke, repetitive strain can result in painful days on the water.  The co-authored “Fit to Fish” by Dr. Keith Berends and Stephen Hisey, … more →

While fly fishing is often lauded as an art, fly casting is without doubt a science. And in an issue of Discover magazine, Curtis Rist talks to the legendary Joan Wulff, physicist Jeff Kommers, and mechanical engineers Graig Spolek and … more →

We all have our places we return to again and again, to those holes we know hold big fish, ever curious to know if they’re still there. Yet “A fish is not a mountain and an angler not a climber,” … more →