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...
Tad Murdock is chasing all 50 recognized salmonid species on the fly, and shares what the hunt has taught him about species identification, travel planning and technique.
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.
Dominic Petruzzi breaks down fly fishing for muskie in Pennsylvania moving water, plus how he designs predator flies around movement, flash, silhouette and profile.
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...
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...
PJ Dufour, a bamboo rod builder and handcrafted net maker, explains how heirloom bamboo fly rods are built step by step and why they still matter to anglers today.
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...
An Arkansas guide explains how eight feet of dam-driven water change moves every lie on the White River, when the caddis and sulfur windows hit, and why you set the...
Mary Alice and Chris of Iguana House Belize cover what goes into organizing a saltwater fly fishing trip, from logistics and expectations to casting tips.
Five trips into the Amazon, a marine biologist turned consultant describes seven sport species in one stretch of river, the gear that survives them, and the deforestation reshaping it all.
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.
Guide Gian Boyseen, a marine biologist based in northeast New Zealand, breaks down saltwater fly fishing there and how to target kingfish and trevally.
Two around-the-world trips with fishing as the secondary goal, and the DIY habits that came out of them - maps, fish markets, one rod, and a leader built from two...
A Colorado guide on reading access before water, working upstream through logs and boulders, and the erosion problem that willow planting actually solves.
Perth sits between two coasts. A Western Australia shop owner walks through carp on the metro flats, tuskfish and blue bastards up north, and the drives that separate them.
Kenai guide Dallas Voss breaks down year-round rainbow trout, salmon run timing, flossing sockeye, bears on the Russian, and why even-year pink runs make the trout fatter.
Rick Passek retired and moved to Mexico. He covers what the coastal saltwater actually delivers, why his highland river is a write-off, and the fly tying habits he never skips.