Category Archives: Tippets

Like salmon returning to their run, Christopher Nicolson and his family migrate from Brooklyn to Bristol Bay. In a beautifully done film short highlighted by the Sea to Table blog via Huffington Post, read and watch their story and others. … more →

Taking the lead from Bob Scammell’s book on matching insect hatches with seasonal flowers, Neil Waugh finds that cherry blossoms signal a prime time for pike. Read more via Neil Waugh Outdoors. While magnetic-field orientation has been studied in anadromous … more →

Understanding body movement and feeding behavior is key to knowing where to place your fly when chasing tarpon. However getting it there is another matter entirely. Andy Mill goes through some tips for placing a well-timed cast on Fly Fishing … more →

Captain of the Time Bandit, featured on Discovery’s show Deadliest Catch, Johnathan Hillstrand  has come out in vocal opposition to the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay. As a commercial fisher, Hillstrand depends on a healthy ecosystem for his way … more →

Likening it to an impressionist painting, read a beautiful short piece by Louis Cahill on finding brown trout among the canvas of a streambed. Heavy rains and snowmelt runoff cause streams to run high and muddy, it’s par for the … more →

Alex Cerveniak takes a detailed look at placement of a mayfly dun from a fish-eye view, up from below. What do trout see; and moreover, what matters most? Read more via Trout Lab. Sustained drought has severely hit Lake Powell, … more →

Almost 80 gallons of water from Palisades nuclear power plant have leaked into Lake Michigan, releasing with it “small amounts of radioactive tritium and possibly trace amounts of cobalt and cesium.” Read more at Grist. Tournament angler Dave Wolak offers … more →

Known for his stacked-deer-hair bass bugs, Pat Cohen and his work are featured in a photo essay in The Times Union. From an articulated rat to Merganser duck, Cohen’s work is original and effective. An over one-hundred-pound common carp has … more →

With summer nearing and warmwater season kicking off, boxes of midge pupa and small streamers can be swapped for larger bugs, both topwater and subsurface. Recently Paul Beel featured a go-to pattern for largemouth bass: Jay Zimmerman’s Geezus Lizard. Find … more →

One of fly fishing’s attractions is its malleability, its form fitting what level of investment you can afford. If you’re ready to jump into building your own rod from a graphite blank, a recent article in Popular Mechanics outlines steps … more →