IRMA from Flylords on Vimeo. We teamed up with @costasunglasses to help tell a story about the devastation hurricane Irma brought to the Florida Keys, but more importantly, we told a story about the power and resilience of the Keys community. Please take a moment to watch the film share it with your friends and […]
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Plying the old adage of better late than never, and hiding behind the excuse of several weeks of the flu from hell over the Holidays, here’s a belated New Year’s challenge for fly fishers in three parts. Get Moving with American Rivers’ River Cleanup Pledge While hash-tagging for the cause de jour qualifies as activism in […]
On Sundays from Ian McMullen on Vimeo. This is a short film about Emma Yardley as she shares her life so far growing up on the river with her dad, and how fly fishing has inspired her to slow down and has continually influenced her creative spirit.
Get out there and take advantage of the free National Park day today (entrance fees waived); your favorite NP can take on an entirely different character in the middle of winter. Layer up and git ‘er done. Image via NPS.
Beyond the Horizon- Official Trailer from Cold Collaborative on Vimeo. Beyond the Horizon tells the story of Rankin Jackson’s struggle to provide for his family while trying to survive the push of drug running and ultimately how fly fishing revealed his road to redemption. Guanaja, Honduras is a remote paradise riddled with its own struggle. […]
For those of us chained to some form of traditional work-world reality, today marks the start of the first “typical” workweek of the New Year; our deepest sympathies to all reading this today from the depth of the their cubicle | office | workspace. Two worthy Monday distractions – FlyFishers Inc Spring Summer 17/18 (New […]
TU has been looking back to several of their top stories from 2017 – if you missed this one, read it today – Rise of the Phoenix – a short narrative of steelhead returning to the Elwha written by one of the modern legends in the steelhead world – John McMillan. I guess 2017 wasn’t […]
A Deliberate Life from fishingpoet on Vimeo. There comes a time in all of our lives when we let ourselves dream about living life on our own terms. When we wrestle with the decision to take a step into traffic, follow our passions and live deliberately – or simply let another day, and daydream, pass. […]
The Fish Trap from North Fork Studios on Vimeo. Bycatch mortality from gillnets and other conventional harvest techniques impedes the recovery of Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed salmonids and commercial fishing opportunities when ESA-take limits are exceeded. To benefit wild salmon, threatened ecosystems, and coastal fishing communities, Wild Fish Conservancy and local commercial fishermen conducted a […]
Back in April Jess was invited along on a pretty damned amazing river journey through the Peruvian highlands and jungle; one of the pieces she’s published on the trip dropped just before the Holidays – read Changed By the Jungle on Adventure Travel here.
S2 E2 How to Perfect Your Forward Cast from RIO Products on Vimeo.
In lieu of a timelapse today (it is Timelapse Tuesday after all) here’s a longer than we usually post (23 min.) vid on stillwater techniques and tips for trout, first published publicly just last Friday. Grab a fresh coffee or a cold one and learn something useful today.
Years ago, a commenter on the predecessor site to Chi Wulff (BestFlyFishingYellowstone.com), opining on some pedantic aspect of the ever-present Yellowstone bison management controversy, insisted that despite his location in Manhattan, he knew far more than any “yokel” in Montana because he read The Times, the absolute and final authority on all things scientific, political, […]
Finding an honest, contemplative, and well-intended voice of reason these days in the fly fishing world has become a tad more of a challenge than before – here’s a quick read today from Louis Cahill at Gink and Gasoline for those towering egotists among us. Well played, LC, well played.
Happened to catch this interesting read hot off the press yesterday – Hal Herring’s Marsh Madness: The Anglers’ Proposal to Restore the Everglades – posted over at Field and Stream. This saga won’t go away, and seems particularly fascinating as a) the problem was identified decades ago, b) multiple solutions have been proposed along the […]
