Bass Fishing in the Mississippi River
The upper Mississippi above the Twin Cities fishes like a big, clear trout stream that happens to hold smallmouth. A full-time guide breaks down the season, the flies and the...
The upper Mississippi above the Twin Cities fishes like a big, clear trout stream that happens to hold smallmouth. A full-time guide breaks down the season, the flies and the...
Dan Hoffman, a former fishing guide and chief of police, explains how to turn the transferable skills of guiding into a next career, plus fishing Alaska's Bristol Bay.
Seth Berger of Orvis walks through his favorite fishing destinations for trout anglers looking to expand their horizons, from Chile and Yellowstone to Belize and Iceland.
Most fishing boats are not built with the rower in mind, so captains end up on a cooler with the oars at shoulder height. Raising the seat changes visibility, leverage...
The Upper Delaware holds so many bugs that trout can afford to be picky. A guide explains the presentations that work there, and a dry-dropper rig built to fish the...
A DIY week in Belize with a golf cart and Google Maps, and six days of topwater golden dorado from a river cruiser in Argentina - neither one a once-in-a-lifetime...
A Pennsylvania outfitter breaks down why a 7-foot leader beats a 9-foot one on spring creeks, how to read a rise form, and where to land a dry fly on...
Alaska's big rainbows are almost never caught on a dry fly. A lodge owner walks through the real season, from spring streamers to fall lake-run fish, and what the trip...
A Grand Rapids guide explains why river smallmouth live in slow water, how to fish a log jam corner with a diver, and which line and rod weight to carry...
Mike Pease covers the lob cast and set, leading the drift for nymph fishing, and his advice for anglers starting a guiding career later in life.
A guide who spends his off season fishing with competition anglers shares what he learned: a fly selection formula, an upstream skittering technique, and a leader built by halves.
A Bristol Bay guide walks through the Alaska season stage by stage: early streamers and mice, sockeye arriving in July, the egg drop, then flesh.
A yarn indicator, a tippet matched to water depth, and a cast that puts the fly in first: how hinged nymphing gives you real control over depth.
Guide Gian Boyseen, a marine biologist based in northeast New Zealand, breaks down saltwater fly fishing there and how to target kingfish and trevally.
Guide Jan Axtell fell for Livingston's spring creeks and moved to Montana to base his business there. Jan covers the water and how to fish it well.
Stream gauges, sun angle, tailing fish and the drag and drop presentation - how to find and catch carp on a fly in any city, starting with Denver.
The founders of a foster-care fly fishing nonprofit break down what connection really means on a tight line rig, and why an oversized indicator hides most of your bites.
A Colorado guide on reading access before water, working upstream through logs and boulders, and the erosion problem that willow planting actually solves.
Redfish behave differently on Florida's east and west coasts. A guide with access to both explains educated fish, seasonal fly size, and how to feed a redfish that has seen...
A Georgian Bay guide breaks down post-spawn pike: the bays and weed types that hold them, a stout four-foot leader, and how to sight fish laid-up pike in two feet...