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...
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Alaska Will Change Forever: Go Now
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...
Fly Fishing Insider Podcast Episodes
Turning Guiding to a Future Career
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.
The Importance of the Captain's Position in Raft, Drift or Jet Boat
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...
Catching Fish on a Difficult Fishery and a Dry Dropper Tip
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...
Belize, Argentina, etc, Why They Don't Have to be Once In A Lifetime
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...
All About Tenkara, It's Misconceptions and Having a Beginner Mindset
Jason Klass breaks down Tenkara, the telescopic, line-only method of fly fishing, dispelling its misconceptions and covering rod build, flex, lengths and line setup.
Dry Fly Fishing with a Short Leader on Spring Creeks
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...
Fly Fishing the White River Water System in the Summer
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...
Taking Time to Dissect the Pursuits of Anglers in the Top 10%
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.
Alaska Fly Fishing Opportunities
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.
The Hinged Nymphing Technique
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.
River Ecology and Coastal Rivers for Native Trout
An ecologist explains what large woody debris, riparian vegetation and snowpack actually tell you about where trout hold and when a river will fish.
Small Mountain Streams Conservation
A Colorado guide on reading access before water, working upstream through logs and boulders, and the erosion problem that willow planting actually solves.
Pike and Spot Fishing for Bass in the Midwest
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...
Is the Kenai River Worth It? Alaska Fly Fishing
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.
How to Streamer Fish for Migratory Fish
Kodie Kowitz guided Alaska for 12 seasons and now guides Michigan steelhead. He covers jig-head streamers, strip-pause retrieves, where migratory fish hold by season, and why changing flies wastes time.
The Denver Carp Slam
Denver Trout Unlimited's Carp Slam is a pro-am fly fishing tournament on the urban South Platte. How it runs, what it funds, and how to enter or donate.
How to Target Big Trout with Andrew Steketee of FlyLab
How to target big trout: night movement, pod hierarchy, heavy tippet, medium-action rods, and the approach mistakes that put trophy browns down before you ever cast.
Bauer Reels - Get to Know - The Angler
Four trout rivers meet in Twin Bridges, Montana, with spring creeks filling in around them. What spring creek fishing demands, and how to swing streamers to staging fall browns.
Three Western Rivers Recommended for Fly Fishing
Three Western rivers picked for dry fly fishing - the Big Wood in Idaho, the Deschutes in Oregon and small water in northern New Mexico - plus hard-won advice on...