Geartalk

Fishing With Your Feet

Proper positioning–fishing with your feet–is an important part of skillful fly presentation.

Montana Brothers Rodworks: The Inside Skinny

You can’t put these rods in your fly shop. You can’t sell them online. You’d be insane to turn one over to a client in your drift boat…

News

Why Social Media Marketing in Fly Fishing is Dying

That’s because fly fishing is all about authenticity...

Two young girls sitting in a drift boat with a rainbow trout in the net and water.

News

Take a Kid Fishing

Why is taking a kid fishing so transformative, and why should you do it?

The Fly Fishing Show

We had a chance to pop into the Denver Fly Fishing Show over the weekend, which always serves as a true barometer for the state of the sport.

Two men fishing to a large, visible trout on the Bighorn River in MT.

Skills

An Observation on Observation

One of the acute differences I see between professional anglers and amateurs is in their respective approaches and entry to water they’re about to fish.

Northern pike caught on the fly in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

Minnesota’s Proposed Copper Mine

This is an effort to restart the Twin Metals project: a proposed (foreign) sulfide-ore copper mine immediately upstream of the Boundary Waters.

Colorado River brown trout ready for release from a fishing net.

Skills

A Brown Trout Quirk

Brown trout can take what feels like forever to come on to a hatch. Even then, they frequently give the impression that rising is something of a bother…