Latest Fly Fishing News and Reports
Rescuing Chuck Stranahan
13 Aug 2025
Masako made about ten casts that slipped her dry fly beneath an alder overhanging a deep pool. Nothing came to the fly. She moved up ten feet to where a limb drooped lower over the dark water, made another cast—and rather than hooking a trout, she hooked the very tip of the limb. She thrashed at it for a while, but the fly was fatally ensnared, so she broke it off. That was the practical thing to do. But I had tied that fly to her tippet earlier, and I could see it easily—its white wing pois
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And Then He Did It
13 Aug 2025
Katherine details a lovely trip to Wyoming, and a big victory for a friend made along the way.
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My Mentor, My Friend
29 Jul 2025
When the fishing passion I grew up with reemerged, I was armed with the long rod and these thread and feather things that imitated the trout’s natural diet. What a concept. I found myself finding s
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Casting Back in Time: A Glacier National Park Fly Fishing Story
29 Jul 2025
Glacier National Park, Montana, USA had always been on my bucket list for National Parks, but not necessarily for fishing. This trip was more about the mountains, the alpine air, and soaking in some o
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A Special Place
16 Jul 2025
Our firefighting superhero files this report from a recent family outing...
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