Author: mcutchin

Chris Hunt, Eat More Brook Trout blogger and author of Shin Deep: A Fly Fisher's Love For Moving Water, calls the proposals in the National Park Service's new plan for non-natives in Yellowstone "progressive and thoughtful." "Two of the plan’s four alternatives — and the two best alternatives, as far as I’m concerned — call for...

Both new rod offerings from Rise Fishing Company are made from IM-8 and IM-10 graphite blanks and feature extra tips, rod socks and cases. The Level saltwater series retails for $249.99 and the In-Stream Freshwater rods for $229.99. Read more in the MidCurrent Gear Guide.

A new video in the MidCurrent Gear Guide shows how to use Rite Bobbin's new Half Hitch MAG bobbin. "The O-ring grip doubly acts as a thread-keeper and color code for thread identification. The surgical stainless steel barrel has a slight taper which allows the tier to make a half hitch or whip finish right on the bobbin barrel and easily slip it onto the...

"'My buddy Ryan's car broke down on the way down to South Park to fish the Dream Stream, so we just decided to throw on the gear in the City Market parking lot and walk down the highway with our rods,' Jeremy Conant, from Keystone, said Monday." Scott Willoughby writes about the Blue River below Dillon Reservoir and other Colorado "food factories" that hold...

On Monday the International Game Fish Association certified Tom Aufiero's fly-caught 26-pound, 12-ounce landlocked Atlantic Salmon as the new All-Tackle record. Guided by Matt Supinski, owner of the Gray Drake Lodge on the Muskegon River, Aufiero caught the fish in October after stalking it along the shorelines of Torch Lake. The best parts of the story...

Theaux Le Gardeur is more than a riverkeeper -- he's also the owner of Backwater Angler in Hereford, Maryland. But the 40-year-old Louisiana native and marine scientist is committed to protecting the Gunpowder River and water-quality issues generally, and as Pat van den Beemt says in North County News, leverages his "extra eyes on the water" to feed the...

In their March issue, now available online in e-mag format, Angling Trade lists "20 Great Things Happening in Fly Fishing, Right Now." Included are Orvis's Fly Fishing 101 program, the New Rod Revolution, the Embrace-a-Stream matching grant program, and "Sili Legs, Z-Lon and Foam." Read the complete issue here.

Produced by On the Fly Productions (the same folks who brought us "Once in a Blue Moon" and who've come out with a gorgeous new casting DVD called "Casts that Catch Fish"), the new iCast Virtual Casting Coach app ($2.99) includes 9 fly-casting instructional clips. Producer Carl McNeil told us that the new app adds "mobility" to their efforts to help fly...

Looks better than Vise Grips: For under $10 techy fly fisher Michael Gracie put together a fly-tying vise that features a size 2 X-Acto knife. Further evidence that fly-fishing is the preferred sport of financial gurus: rising Jupiter Growth star Philip Matthews admits "I bore everyone senseless in the office about it." The Palometa Club, located in Punta...

As we were writing about the death of "Poet of the Wild" John Haines last week, reader John DeMott pointed us to a Haines poem entitled "To My Father." As a tribute to the poet and and as a reminder of the importance of fathers teaching their children to fish, we reprint it today with the permission of Wesleyan University Press. Last evening I entered a...