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Typewriter Vision

Every fly-fishing guide has a process, at least the good ones do.

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Minam Store Float Trip Giveaway

Enter the Minam Store Float Trip Giveaway.

Skills

Carp Are Difficult to Pattern

No fish species connects the sports of angling and hunting better than carp.

A fly-fishing artisan rolling a fly rod. She is wearing a dark shirt.

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A Fly Rod is Easy to Copy–Trust Isn’t

The best fly-fishing brands are building something far harder to reverse-engineer.

Woman eating some freshly tied dry flies that were tied for trout.

Bugs

Food for Thought, or Thoughts on Food?

That large stoneflies (salmonflies) and hoppers are dead last on the list might surprise some folks, especially given their notoriety in the West.

A mailbox with a man putting a piece of paper into it. The outside of the mailbox reads: "Fly Fishing Log."

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The Message, the Medium, the Style

Despite the ever-changing advancements in technology, storytelling is here to stay.

Fly angler and fly-fishing guide looking for redfish along the Texas coast.

Gen Z Anglers and Social Media

The invention of social media has been a demarcation line in fly fishing…

Meadow section of the Upper Colorado River.

Skills

Allowing For Serendipity

Tunnel vision of the mind. I’ve watched friends succumb to the effects of this phenomena many times. They end up going fishing only under sets of conditions known to be optimal…

Young man riding a mountain bike with a fly rod. He is headed fly fishing.

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Orvis Built the Church. Duck Camp is Filling the Pews.

Fly fishing isn’t graying out. It’s growing. The question is who’s actually driving that growth, and what that means for the next decade.