The Why
Photographer Sean Platt was kind enough to share this stellar photo essay with us. When you’re done with this piece, be sure to check out …
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Book Of The Week Wednesday
Every Wednesday our friend, writer, and Patty Fly Fish Ambassador Dylan Tomine has been sharing some of his favorite books on Instagram. Check it out …
It’s All Home Water: Oregon Steelhead
Steve Duda, Patagonia’s managing editor for fly fishing, penned this profile of Oregon steelhead guide Jeff Hickman. Jeff Hickman is a prominent steelhead fishing guide, …
2020 Robert Traver Fly Fishing Writing Award
The John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) are pleased to announce the 2020 Robert Traver Fly Fishing Writing Award …
The lure of the fly: Fly fishing’s ‘renaissance’ isn’t really new, but it’s welcome anyway
Author and University of Toronto Professor Mark Kingwell with a thoughtful response to the NY Times story on the “new trend” of fly fishing. If …
Interview with John Gubbins, author of “The American Fly Fishing Experience”
Public Radio 90’s Hans Ahlstrom speaks with local author John Gubbins about his new book, “The American Fly Fishing Experience – Theodore Gordon: His Lost …
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as …
Unemployed Fishing
Having been laid off 9 months ago here’s a piece from Matt Labash that I can certainly relate to. The reaction was ugly. There was …
“Just call them a San Juan Stretched Caddis Larva, and everything will be just fine.”
Paul Bruun on the San Juan Worm. The first day I fished the San Juan, which must have been something like 1981, I remember watching …
The life of a part-time tarpon god
I’m glad to say the tarpon seem to be as abundant this year as ever before… and I’m sorry to say that they seem to …