Intro So, you’ve caught some trout, panfish and maybe a few bass, mastered the roll cast, learned to tie nymphs, dry flies, and basic streamers and you’re looking for something bigger, tougher, and faster. Stripers, line-siders, rock bass, rockfish, chunks, whatever you call them, Striped Bass are a fantastic species to target with...

The fly shot out again. A brilliant orange sun sparkled on the gentle swells. The line made a tight loop against a montage of morning sky and sea. As I retrieved the fly, the only other fisherman I would see that day caught my eye. He was just a speck moving on the beach in …...

Author: Fly Fishing for Leadership It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck Trout are a lot like people; both predictable and highly unpredictable. The external environment impacts their behaviour and “moods” (in fishing language we...

By Spencer Durrant The spring creeks are dead this winter. Not fishing slow or tough; literally dead. Killed by one of the hundreds of wildfires that ravaged Utah in 2018. This particular fire burned from mid-September up to the opening of the deer hunt. The Forest Service could’ve put it out when the blaze was …...

“ . . . in the dimming shadows it wasn’t until he was actually in the net that I could see he was a rainbow.” You can always follow water, whether it still runs free or is merely a latent image left behind in some dry, desert place. From trickles to brooks to streams to …...

by Monte Burke By 1978, all of the players were in place in Homosassa, in pursuit of their sport’s Holy Grail: the world record for the most glamorous and coveted fly rod species, the tarpon. The fever dream would last for five seasons or so, a singular moment in time—the best fly anglers in the …...

By John R Childress Author: Fly Fishing for Leadership Fly fishing starts way before you step into the river. It begins with the dream of being there, of making the arrangements, of talking to friends about an upcoming trip, of gathering equipment, choosing the right flies, dreaming of that first pull. ~Ali Gentry Flota While …...

by Heather Richie When angler Bernard “Lefty” Kreh died at the age of 93, it caused a ripple that traveled around the world. I first heard the news from fly fishing friends in Cape Town 13 minutes after it broke. That’s how fast the fly fishing world felt the loss. Kreh was a Greatest Generation …...