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Alaska, a land renowned for its wild, untouched landscapes and abundant wildlife, offers some of the most spectacular fly fishing experiences in the world. But with increasing popularity and looming...
Five permit fisheries, one per species and region: Atlantic permit in Ascension Bay and Belize, Africanus permit found only in Oman, and Indo-Pacific permit on the Seychelles outer atolls.
What a week on Ascension Bay looks like: permit-first guided skiff fishing, big schools of bonefish, the late May to mid-July tarpon window, Sian Ka'an reserve rules, and how to...
Those marks suspended over open water are fish, and most anglers never reach them. How to find their depth and put a fly right in it.
Damsel nymphs swim, and trout hammer them. How to time the summer migration and fish the retrieve that triggers the biggest lake fish.
In cold water, big brown trout follow a stripped streamer and refuse it. Here is how to rig and dead drift a sculpin so they eat it instead of watching...
The hybrid nymph rig for deep, slow water: add an indicator to your mono rig leader, keep the low-sag drift, and fish the pools you keep walking past.
Dead drift or active drift? How to read refusals, time the Leisenring lift, and add the movement that turns following trout into hooked trout.
Leading your nymphs is the tight-line skill that turns invisible takes into hooked trout. Rod-tip lead, sighter angles, drills and the rig that makes it work.
Sink tip or tight-line rig for streamers? A verdict table by river size, depth and boat vs wade, plus the real sink rates behind each line class.
Two streamers on one leader move more fish than one. Here is how I rig the lead fly and trailer, the pause that gets the eat, and the regs to...
Refusals are data. Here's the four-variable checklist I use to tell whether trout are rejecting your drift or your position, and what to change first.
How to fish a tight line dry dropper: build the Y, hold the dry, steer the nymph, and read the three strike windows trout give you in pocket water.
Fish dry flies on a mono rig: the leader conversion, the lobbing stroke, the mid-drift reset, and the honest limits versus a floating fly line.
Big browns eat smaller prey than you think. Here's how to size streamers for trophy brown trout, when a big meat fly pays off, and when to go smaller.
Belize, Mexico or Cuba: five lodges where a bonefish-permit-tarpon grand slam is realistic in one day, the months each species overlaps, and why permit fills the box last.
The biggest trout in a lake often feed after dark. What changes at night, how to rig for it safely, and where the giants move to hunt.
Chironomids make up most of a stillwater trout's diet. The static method — precise depth, no movement — and why it out-fishes everything else.
Micro-leader Euro nymphing swaps your fly line for level mono straight off the reel. George Daniel's stripped-down rig, built and fished step by step.
Islamorada flats fishing: tarpon, bonefish and permit month by month, the 40-inch tarpon rule, permit closure dates and published guide rates.
The Rio Grande sea-run brown trout season runs November 1 to April 19, catch-and-release only. Costs, the permit system, and an honest take on the fishing.