Geartalk

Does Fly Fishing Need a Women’s Brand?

Founders trying to build in the fly-fishing space often describe the same problem Cassie Abel identified in bikes: gear designed for men and shrunk down and colored-up.

Profiles

Flip’s Final Gift

As I sit reflecting on the man from “My-am-uh” and the legacy he left, I begin to recall the outpouring of love and sentiment that came in the days after his death.

Skills

The Characteristics and Senses of Carp

Carp are among the fastest-growing fish in freshwater, able to reach double-digit weights in a matter of months.

Black and white photo of an oyster table in Florida.

News

Part One: The Vise

Webb and Cheryl had married in their late twenties after meeting at a friend’s oyster shuck in New Smyrna Beach, where Cheryl had arrived with another man, a cell-tower technician named Garrett...

Drift boat headed to the Yellowstone River, Stillwater County, MT.

News

Alone in the Absarokas

The deliberate, unglamorous, sometimes painful process of fishing, writing or building a business is the work.

Man fishing for carp in Colorado wearing Wellie boots.

Skills

Carp Biology

Carp can tolerate a wide range of temperatures and water conditions. They can survive in lakes that freeze in winter, as well as in rivers and sloughs that can warm to over 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Travel

A Long Pondered Question, Answered

For years the state of Montana stocked fingerling rainbows in Hebgen Lake, a fact not widely known among visiting anglers.

A woman on the far riverbank in a pair of waders. She's fishing a choppy western river.

Bugs

A Riseform Detail

Calm, quiet rises usually result from smaller, less mobile food items being taken.

Kea and his river dogs, BONEDALE, CO. Liz Steketee Castwork proofs. Circa 2002.

News

Typewriter Vision

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