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Best practices around catch and release fishing have come a long way since the early days of our sport and most modern anglers have consciously ado...

It is nearly thirty-five years since my first trip to the MacKenzie, yet so vividly etched in memory are the recollections of that far away weeken...

Greg Madrigal has always been a hands-on guy. Reared in Nampa, Idaho, shop work was part of his upbringing.  “Above all else, I consider myself a...

  Since 2009, I have taught a course on fly fishing at Hiram College in Ohio that has involved over a 125 students, hundreds of essays, nail knots,...

Fly fishing has a reputation as a relaxed, contemplative endeavor requiring little stamina or physical prowess.  One national magazine used to refe...

The water was perfect as we were just getting ready to fish a popular area on the Deschutes River called Langtry’s Riffle. It was named after Appe...

  Talk to any fly fisherman worth his salt around the Northwest or abroad and eventually the talk will gravitate towards the statement, "You ever ...

During the entire month of January this year, I was lucky to be able to spend a month targeting large trout in New Zealand (NZ). The challenge of s...

Euro Nymphing has rapidly swept across the fly fishing landscape and it looks like it’s here to stay. The technique is very effective, the basics a...

In the spring of 1969, I returned to Oregon from a year in Vietnam. My plane landed in Portland just before dawn. A young man on my flight had noti...

From 1967, this article, written by Roderick Haig Brown, was featured in the first issue of long-time magazine Salmon Trout Steelheader. It detail...

An Unconsidered Realm:   Wyoming’s Snake River is known as native cutthroat country.  The watershed, consisting of dozens of tributaries, spring cr...