Jess McGlothlin Media

01/06/2026

Reverse-order process: hero shot, the jump, and the hook-up. Teamwork makes the dream work with these Brazilian wolfish. and getting it done at this past September.

I’m heading back to Kendjam to host a week in the fall of 2027. If multi-species on dry flies (along with plenty of streamer action!) are your game, get in touch.

01/04/2026

Well, onward into 2026 we go. Here's a peek at what's coming up:

Here's what you can expect in this newsletter to see this coming year.

01/03/2026

It’s not all fishing work. And a lot of that “other work” never gets posted here on the ‘Gram (which, frankly, is wonderful).

A few snippets from Jordan.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year, team. Thanks for all the adventures—and here’s to many more to come.

12/28/2025

Fresh newsletter just dropped.

So where exactly did 2025 go?

12/22/2025

Simple little things. (They don’t all need to be big fish.)

Vermont brook trout, 2014.

12/21/2025

A little bit of humor (and a throwback) for your Christmas week:

A bit of lighthearted humor for this week.

12/16/2025

We go here, to fish for this, and celebrate this.

Hokkaido, Japan, 2017. I showed up the week North Korea was firing ballistic missiles over the island. We had a typhoon. And a rooftop clothing-prohibited onsen (hot bath).

It was a grand week.

And hooking into my first golden char? Mission accomplished.

12/15/2025

Alaska summer things.

This past July up at while it was going from lumber to actual walls.

12/14/2025

Weekly Substack newsletter just dropped, with some thoughts on why it's worth hanging in until the very last cast:

Sometimes it really does all come together at the very last moment.

12/13/2025

Once upon a time, I worked on an island in the South Pacific. I slept in the open air, ate raw bonefish in fresh coconut milk and spent the majority of my waking hours submerged in saltwater with my camera. One day, I learned how to throw spears at coconuts suspended high in the air. And life was simple, and life was good.

The end.

12/11/2025

Ingredients for a Montana summer morning. Already keen for this season to roll around again.