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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Phil Monahan offers up three keys to catching largemouth bass on surface flies, noting "it's not as easy as you might think. Bass aren’t like northern pike, almost always willing to chase down a big meal. In fact, bass can be quite picky and will often ignore big, noisy topwater flies. Here are a few steps you can take to improve your odds." Read his tips...

Chris D’Angelo reports in the Huff Post this week that the Yellowstone Club, whose members include Bill Gates, Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, is "fueling a crisis" in the nearly Gallatin River, due to algae blooms likely caused by nutrient pollution. "Since summer 2005, neon green algae — a telltale sign of an...

TroutBitten's Domenick Swentosky offers up another tip in his series on more effective tight line fly fishing, this one focused on finding contact. "Contact nymphing is just as much about being out of touch as being in. But the margins of slack here are inches and not feet," writes Swentosky. "And, in truth, before we can slip out of touch, we need to first...

As reported in The New York Times this week, Montana has announced significant new restrictions on a number of rivers including the Missouri, while Yellowstone National Park has announced limits on fishing that prohibit fishing from 2PM until sunrise ("hoot owl" restrictions). Notes reporter Jim Robbins: "The term 'hoot owl restrictions' stems from the...

If you've been paying attention to national media in the past few days, no doubt you've seen mention of a Montana fishing guide confronting Fox News host Tucker Carlson in the iconic Dan Bailey's fly shop in downtown Livingston, Montana.  NBC News reported that a video "from a Montana fly fishing shop shows a man berating Fox News host Tucker Carlson...