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Craven’s Speed Bench
As a longtime commercial fly tier, I’m used to people marveling about how fast I can tie. Truth is, short of an emergency deadline, or a late night followed by an early morning trip, I prefer to tie...
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Gentle Giants
Photo | Arlen Thomason If your first thought upon seeing this image is of prehistoric monsters, you aren’t too far off the mark. Nearly 250 million years ago this fellow’s ancestors, bearing mugs not...
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Squid In The Rips
Illustration | Joe Mahler The scene of jumping squid and striped bass recurs in my imagination when I’m off the water, and has kept me returning to the rips of New England every spring for the past 12...
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Hill Country Bass
Photo | Emily Whitlock Being a lifelong Oklahoma Sooners fan, I was never too excited about going to Austin, Texas, until I was asked to do a series of seminars at the Austin Angler Fly Shop. There I...
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2012 Tippet Shootout
Lee Wulff was once asked, “What is the greatest improvement you’ve seen in fly fishing?” His reply, “The tippet.” In A. J. McClane’s The Practical Fly Fisherman, published in 1953, the author included...
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High and Dry
The first steelhead I ever saw eat a dry fly was in a Lani Waller video shot during 1986 in British Columbia. It wasn’t the gentle sipping rise most often associated with dry-fly fishing for trout. It...
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Russian Fly Fishing
Zendzur Lodge on the Zhupanova is the only true fishing lodge in Kamchatka with private baths and toilets. Most other accommodations are “rustic” fishing camps that range from cabins with cots, to...
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Best Shenandoah Streams
Photo: Harry Murray By: Harry Murray By parking at trailheads on Skyline Drive and hiking down to the upper reaches of the streams, you will usually get the best springtime dry-fly fishing. You can...
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Date with a King Salmon
See author Jeff Bright's story "The King's New Crown" in the Oct-Dec 2013 issue of Fly Fisherman. Jeff Bright photo The last “real” Chinook salmon I caught were on the Alagnak River in the late 1990s....
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Perception: RIO Solves the Low-Stretch Riddle
RIO's Perception trout line has a new low-stretch core that makes casting, mending, and lifting more efficient. RIO’s new flagship trout line has made a core change, both figuratively and literally....
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