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 with dry flies in his summer river hat.

Bugs

A Fabulous Trick For CDC Flies

Simon Chu, my good friend, teaching colleague and expert guide from New Zealand, told me about a simple trick for reviving cdc…

Two young girls sitting in a drift boat with a rainbow trout in the net and water.

News

Take a Kid Fishing

Why is taking a kid fishing so transformative, and why should you do it?

The Fly Fishing Show

We had a chance to pop into the Denver Fly Fishing Show over the weekend, which always serves as a true barometer for the state of the sport.

Two men fishing to a large, visible trout on the Bighorn River in MT.

Skills

An Observation on Observation

One of the acute differences I see between professional anglers and amateurs is in their respective approaches and entry to water they’re about to fish.

Northern pike caught on the fly in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

Minnesota’s Proposed Copper Mine

This is an effort to restart the Twin Metals project: a proposed (foreign) sulfide-ore copper mine immediately upstream of the Boundary Waters.

Colorado River brown trout ready for release from a fishing net.

Skills

A Brown Trout Quirk

Brown trout can take what feels like forever to come on to a hatch. Even then, they frequently give the impression that rising is something of a bother…