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Coho Salmon Returning to California's Mendocino County

Each year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) carefully counts juvenile and adult coho salmon in North Coast rivers and streams. This work is especially important for tracking the status of endangered populations of Central California Coast (CCC) coho. Last winter, CDFW staff realized they were seeing exceptional numbers of adult salmon...

Orvis Names Award-Winning Guide, Outfitter, and Lodges for 2025

Each year, Orvis recognizes the best of the best among the members of its Endorsed Lodges, Outfitters, and Guides (ELOG) program. The winners of these “Of the Year” Awards are chosen based on a number of criteria, the most important of which is customer feedback: the reviews from the customers who have experienced these operations are the ultimate...

Video: The Incredible Story of Utah's Giant Trout

Chase and Aimee Bartee of Tight Loops have been making some of the more compelling fly-fishing/adventure films of the last decade. Their current project is a series called “For Wild’s Sake: The Rare Trout Chronicles,” and the latest episode just dropped. It's a 47-minute epic about getting off the beaten path, meeting like-minded adventurers, and...

Tying Tuesday: Olives and Bunnies

This week’s Tying Tuesday showcases three cool patterns that should be very effective in springtime. First, Paul Johnson ties a cool, buggy blue-winged olive dry fly that's a mashup of versions created by Charlie Craven and Walter Wiese. It's got emerger or cripple vibes that make it look vulnerable to wary trout. Next up, Davie McPhail demonstrates how...

MidCurrent Welcomes Phil Monahan as Editor-in-Chief

MidCurrent is proud to welcome Phil Monahan as our Editor-in-Chief. Phil joins the MidCurrent team after a 14-year run with Orvis, where he launched the Orvis Fly Fishing Blog. That blog played an influential role in fly fishing media, and Phil oversaw its consistent success. In the summer of 2017, Phil published the 10,000th post on Orvis News, which he...

New Climate Change PSA

Conservation Hawks has released a new public service announcement on climate change, urging anglers to get involved in the upcoming election to put climate-friendly politicians into office. Tom Rosenbauer, Hilary Hutcheson, Craig Mathews, Kirk Deeter, and Todd Tanner appear in the video, describing the current climate crisis, and discussing a few of the...

Tying Tuesday

This week's Tying Tuesday features a great caddis dry fly, a unique wet fly, and a nymph you can fish year-round. It's fun to look at some of the more creative, less mainstream ties that tiers come up with these days, and I think all of these patterns fit that bill. First up is a fly I need more of in my own box - a High-viz Caddis dry fly, whipped up by...

First Look: Riversmith Gear Roll

The new Convoy Collection from Riversmith is an impressive lineup of luggage and packs, and I have a few pieces with me to test out in Alaska this week. The one that's made the biggest impact on me so far is the Gear Roll. At first glance, the Gear Roll doesn't appear to be anything special, especially if you're judging just by the name. But it's actually a...

How Well Does AI Know Fly Fishing?

The new trend of AI needs no introduction, and it was just a matter of time before someone tested its knowledge on fly fishing. The folks over at Fly Fisherman Magazine put ChatGPT to the test by asking it a wide range of fly fishing questions. Its answers were - well, I'll let you be the judge. But it did come up with a brand-new strain of cutthroat...

"3 Keys to Catching Bass on Topwater Bugs"

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