Author: sdurrant

Simms has launched a new collection of technical apparel and gear, designed for saltwater anglers. The Latitude Collection features new hoodies, shirts, and pants, and there's a new Flats Sneaker, as well. Of particular note is the Latitude Hoody ($129.95) for men and women. This product features a front and rear "passive vent," which you can see in the...

After five years and 2,823 posts here at MidCurrent, it's time for me to turn the reins over to someone new. I started with MidCurrent back in 2020, before the pandemic. Marshall Cutchin, publisher emeritus and then-owner of MidCurrent, hired me as the News Editor. I was in charge of finding and sharing the goings-on of the fly fishing world. When you...

Destination travel is all the rage right now. Instagram is filled with pictures and videos of anglers in far-flung locales, chasing exotic fish on 12-weight rods, and generally having the time of their life. I'll admit, a bit of jealousy creeps in when I see those posts. I'd love to be somewhere warm right now. Instead, I'm thawing out from a deep freeze...

Even though fly fishing is a global sport, I think many of us—myself included—forget how much of an impact it has on other people. It's not just the North American market that dominates fly fishing. In fact, a recent story from The Times in London claims that "fishing, and in particular fly fishing" is Britain's favorite sport and a "new youthful...

This week's Tying Tuesday features one of my all-time favorite flies, a new smallmouth pattern that'll work well for trout, and some tips on picking and sizing dry-fly hackle. With spring creeping ever closer, I reckon most of us could use the refresher on the Klinkhåmer, and picking and sizing hackle. Davie McPhail's videos—and flies—are some of the...

Back in the 1990s, salmon and steelhead returning to the Columbia River Basin averaged just over one million fish per year, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. That includes all five species of Pacific salmon, and steelhead. The current 10-year rolling average is 2.3 million fish per year, which is certainly better than almost 30 years ago, but still...

Years ago, when I first learned to tie flies, my dad showed me a caddis pattern that he said his father—my grandpa—invented. This particular fly is a mashup of what a tier today would label as an Adams and an elk-hair caddis, complete with the wing. It has the Adams tail, but the flat, stubby body of the caddis. You can hackle this fly with whatever you...

Bob Quigley was one of the most influential fly tiers of his generation. While he passed in 2012, his innovations in fly tying live on, and continue to influence fly design today. In a 2013 Fly Fisherman Magazine article, Charlie Craven had this to say about Quigley: "(he) changed the shape of technical dry-fly fishing. That's an impressive sentence and an...

Where I grew up, we called them crawdads. I've heard them called crawfish, but most folks seem to settle on crayfish as the official term for these interesting freshwater lobsters. Regardless of what you call them, crayfish are an important part of the diet for many trout, especially those living in tailwaters. They're a high-protein food source, and some...

If you put a hole in your waders last season and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet, you might be able to get it professionally repaired. The folks at Patagonia's wader team are hitting the road this spring for their Wader Repair Tour, where they'll inspect, diagnose, and repair waders for free. And they don't have to be Patagonia waders, either. Any...