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We’re back with Season 2 of Sidechannels, a podcast featuring flyfishing culture, adventure, art and conservation throug...
07/03/2025

We’re back with Season 2 of Sidechannels, a podcast featuring flyfishing culture, adventure, art and conservation through thought-provoking, in-person interviews with angling’s most compelling individuals.

www.theflyfishjournal.com/sidechannel/dave-gravette/

Get frothy with David Gravette in episode one, live now on Apple and Spotify podcasts or watch it on our Youtube channel. In this episode David talks about hairy situations in the backcountry, skateboarding injuries, his top techniques for sucker fish and more.

Give it a listen, tell a friend, subscribe for future episodes and leave a review to help others find the show.

Sidechannels is made possible with support from DECKED and Patagonia Fly Fish.

Yellowstone National Park provides fishing partners consisting of bison, wolves, bears, pronghorn, badgers, coyotes, eag...
06/11/2025

Yellowstone National Park provides fishing partners consisting of bison, wolves, bears, pronghorn, badgers, coyotes, eagles and more.

Sam Aaberg finds a way to navigate through them carefully while sneaking in a few casts to some prodigious cutthroat.

From the Rises section of Volume Fifteen, Issue Four.

Photo: Jakob Burleson

Volume Sixteen, Issue Three exists. Now shipping to subscribers, fine fly shops, those in the know and retailers everywh...
04/29/2025

Volume Sixteen, Issue Three exists. Now shipping to subscribers, fine fly shops, those in the know and retailers everywhere.

Shift into the spring season, support independent print and subscribe because .

Find a link in our profile to catch a sneak peak, browse web exclusives, listen to Sidechannels episodes, shop merch and complete your collection of back issues.

Featured inside: and explore intuitive science in Ireland, reports on reciprocal connections in the Wind River Reservation, Bret Rutherford carefully details how to not catch steelhead, visits the Gaspé Peninsula with .coastal, and .jayriley checks in from florida with love and .

Also ’s negative space, NOLA’s worst with , Stephen Sautner’s little trout and big mountains, Jon Litten’s 50-year storm, ’s river of return, and a pharmaceutical title fight from .

On the cover: and crew searching for juvies in the Yucatán. Photo: Dylan Rose

So much visual support from .forsee and Alex Johnson.

We can’t do this without all of these amazing writers, photographers and artists mentioned above. Follow them, hire them, get their autograph, support their work. Thank you!

04/24/2025

Chase White wears many hats: photographer, director, conservationist, advocate, dad and steelhead obsessive are just a few of them. Through a sort of wizardry that eludes most, he’s managed to fold many, if not all, of those hats into one most of the time—you’ll rarely find him wearing just one.

www.theflyfishjournal.com/exclusive/clear-intentions-chase-white/

“Clear Intentions” is a short film companion to the Gallery of White’s work featured in 16.2. Watch the full short film live now on our website.

🎥 Colby Mesick and Asher Koles

Katka Švagrová clambers over a mid-river boulder in the Bolivian Amazon while chasing golden dorado with Tsimane’s hel...
04/15/2025

Katka Švagrová clambers over a mid-river boulder in the Bolivian Amazon while chasing golden dorado with Tsimane’s heli-fishing program out of Pluma Lodge. Unseasonably high temperatures, low water and wildfire smoke made for unique late-season conditions, but the high mountain watersheds still produced stunning numbers of large dorado willing to take a fly.

It looks way better in the Rises section of Volume Fifteen, Issue Four, back issues are available ale in our webstore.

Photo: Jess McGlothlin

“I had come to the Bob for many reasons, one of which was the absence of liquor stores and bars. I took up flyfishing in...
04/08/2025

“I had come to the Bob for many reasons, one of which was the absence of liquor stores and bars. I took up flyfishing in part because I thought it would be a good substitute for drinking, and I really needed to quit drinking. Many people said so: my wife, Melissa; her twin sister; my gastroenterologist. But one of the great problems with kicking booze is all the time it leaves on your hands, all the hours you used to fill letting one vodka soda slide unnoticeably into the next until it was time to pass out. but fly casting helped fill the hours.”

Unhooked, Flyfishing Through Recovery recounts author Erik Reece’s backcountry rehab, lessons on sobriety and lots of Westslope cutties along the way.

Pick up a copy of Volume Sixteen, Issue Two for the full feature, or subscribe for home delivery.

Photos in order of appearance: Copi Vojta, Tim Romano , Aaron Agosto (2).

Which one are you casting to? Photo: Copi Vojta
02/28/2025

Which one are you casting to?

Photo: Copi Vojta

02/26/2025

Small fish enthusiasts, we have tiny news of the best kind!

Congratulations to Juan Kindelan for winning the December Smolt of the Month contest with a massive Arkansas minner.

https://www.theflyfishjournal.com/2025/02/smolt-of-the-month-december/

There's more on the contest above and don't forget to enter your own! And remember, be nice to the fish, they're next years hawgs.

Many thanks to all contestants, and to our prize sponsors DECKED and Patagonia Fly Fish.

Go smolts!

Future candidate for the head guide of Aotearoa Anglers in Lake Hawea, New Zealand, 2-and-a-half-year-old Gus Forsee sh...
02/25/2025

Future candidate for the head guide of Aotearoa Anglers in Lake Hawea, New Zealand, 2-and-a-half-year-old Gus Forsee shows promising signs while rigging the boat for a day of throwing streamers on the South Island. Next up: double haul, strip set and knot-tying skills, with an emphasis on the Lefty’s Loop.

Originally published in the Rises section of Volume Sixteen, Issue One.

Photo: Jeff Forsee

What’s the worst thing you’ve forgotten while fishing and how did it turn out?www.theflyfishjournal.com/exclusive/didnt-...
02/04/2025

What’s the worst thing you’ve forgotten while fishing and how did it turn out?

www.theflyfishjournal.com/exclusive/didnt-even-have-to-use-the-figure-eight/

Hit the link to read the latest Water Reportage (our version of fishing reports) for a pleasant dose of forgetfulness that turned into a very memorable day.

Didn’t Even Have to Use the Figure Eight is live on our website. Don’t forget :)

Photo: Copi Vojta

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