“There is nothing as gratifying as landing a trout on a rod that you built yourself.” That's a quote you're likely to hear when entering PJ’s Fine Bamboo Rods. Nestled in the charming landscape of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, PJ's Fine Bamboo Rods offers an experience that harmonizes tradition, artistry, and nature for anglers, travelers, and…
The stoke had certainly diminished a bit as the north state was being pummeled with unseasonably huge storms. The week had been spent constantly checking flow charts, scrutinizing weather reports, formulating plans B, C, and D, and a whole lot of finger-crossing. No fishing trip is ever guaranteed, especially when it comes to steelhead. The…
For the last year I have been building a home in SE Idaho. I didn’t want to do it. It would take too much of my time away from fishing. It would be too much work—work that I had been doing for a living for decades and that I was trying to get away from.…
Chelatna Lake Lodge sits at the foot of Denali National Park, one of America’s true national treasures. Nestled a hundred miles northwest of Anchorage, and within a one-hour flight, our lodge provides breathtaking vistas of Mount Denali and the Alaska Range. With a maximum capacity of 16 guests nightly, Chelatna Lake Lodge presents a variety of diverse…
Welcome to our September 2024-edition, which features contributions from Emily Rodger, Kurt Konrad, Rasmus Ovesen, Trevor Skinner, Nick Bowles, Joseph Clark, Barry Ord Clarke and many more. This time around, we'll take you to Northern Norway, Argentina, Oman, Australia, Poland and beyond for new and thrilling fly fishing adventures. Enjoy!
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In the wild heart of British Columbia, where the mountains loom like ancient guardians, and the waters shimmer with the promise of adventure, lies the Skeena River—a living testament to the untamed beauty of nature. I drive here from my home in British Columbia every August in the hopes of hitting the right run of…
Fly fishing, to a great extent, is about memorable experiences; about tapping into a fleeting realm of rare beauty and excitement that, perhaps, is precisely so wondrous and fascinating to us because it is temporal in character – out of the ordinary, magical in its escapist character.
BY RASMUS OVESEN
It’s no wonder that, throughout…
There’s no place like home. The older I get, the more I appreciate the pure and untouched nature of the Swiss Alps. Crystal-clear alpine lakes reflect the majesty of the surrounding mountains. Gushing creeks run down from snow-covered peaks, crossing picturesque forests and multi-colored flower meadows before they pour into deep, cool lakes. Catches might…
You should now have a healthy understanding of both the basic overhead (pick up and lay down), and roll casting techniques. It is now time to go back to the overhead cast, and build on this basic movement.
FALSE CASTING
We have practiced the basic pick up and lay down cast and are now proficient…
I took some time off one spring to fish.
I had mostly planned for it. Months earlier, as I tied flies and rigged my truck for camping, my wife began referring to the coming downtime as my “sabbatical.” That felt generous, a characterization maybe reserved for priests and tenured professors, not a bored, half-assed attorney.…
Our June/summer edition features articles from four different continents as well as fly tying features, interviews, and product news. From giant trevally in Papua New Guinea and bumphead parrotfish on Farquhar Atoll to arctic grayling in Alaska and monster taimen in Siberia there is some truly exhilarating reading waiting for you.
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Rising trout can create a real rollercoaster of emotions. They offer the promise of easy-to-locate fishing that are obviously feeding, but the myriad of technicalities around hatches, presentations, and capabilities as an angler can combine to make it seem like hooking one of these fish is an impossible task. And nowhere is this more evident…