Merwin on Fly Fishing for Muskie

January 24, 2012 By: Marshall Cutchin

There’s nothing new about fly fishing for muskie, as MidCurrent editorial board member and Field & Stream editor-at-large John Merwin proves with a 1925 photo of a man catching a rather large specimen with a bamboo rod.   “Each new generation of anglers, it seems, is constantly discovering things new to them. But when is comes to fishing in general–and flyfishing, in particular–there’s really not much that’s truly new in or on the water.”