Tippets: Tier Profiles, 100 Million-year-old Fish Fossil Found

October 30, 2016 By: Erin Block

  • Colin Clancy profiles fly tiers Matt Ebbers, Pat Cohen, Matt Callies, Curtis Fry, April Vokey, and Drew Chicone in an article via Backcountry. Each tiers talks about what got them into tying, what advice they have for beginners, and what it feels like to fool a fish with your own pattern. Read more here.
  • The skeleton of a 100 million-year-old fish “with an incredibly swordfish-like head and monstrous teeth” has been unearthed in a remote outback area of Queensland, Australia. The bones belong to a species called Australopachycormus hurleyi. Via ABC News.