Geartalk

Hacks

From Google Earth to TroutRoutes

The next generation’s thoughts on fly-fishing mapping platforms.

News

Jim Klug on Montana Public Fishing Access

Pay attention, speak up and show up.

Travel

Get Higher in the Rockies

High-alpine fishing is best enjoyed during the summer months and early fall.

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.

Three mirror carp in the shallows with their backs out of the water.

Skills

Carp Are Difficult to Pattern

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

Two fly anglers on a western river caught in a giant rainstorm. They are putting on rain jackets.

Skills

Shocking the System

Experienced anglers know that insect activity controls trout feeding activity. And they know, too, that weather plays a vital role in controlling insect activity.