Liquid Gold
Liquid Gold follows a group of anglers missioning into the remote reaches of the High Sierra to scout for native golden trout—pockets of fish have been isolated for more than a century. Watch it Via CalTrout
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New Zealand Nightmare
Every good nightmare needs a monster. Denmark-based media producer, Peter A. Christensen, is back with this creepy edit of some very bad flyfishing in New Zealand. Watch it Via Frontsidefly.com: “This little edit follows Peter’s streak of bad luck and not-so-pro fuck-ups during a recent New Zealand trip with the Nylinder brothers.”
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Wild vs. Hatchery Steelhead
The state fish and game departments for Washington and Oregon both face a major dilemma: how to adequately protect what remains of their wild steelhead, while also continuing to produce hatchery steelhead for the many anglers who like to bring one home for dinner.
The Big Year Contest
Since the 1930s, the world of birding has held an informal contest to find out who can see or hear the largest number of species of birds within a calendar year. They call this contest The Big Year, and we thought it was time flyfishing had its own Big Year. Our contest will be run…
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I Went Steelheading Today
I’d planned to fish something new, and was ready for a bold adventure. But then I remembered promising my buddy that I’d do some light mechanical work on his stupid Accord that evening. That guy doesn’t even fish. Anyway, no one likes exploring with a time constraint, so I resigned myself to fishing the same…
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Colorado Stoners Go Fishing
Back in January, NOAA meteorologists reported a brilliant haze-like anomaly ascending into the atmosphere high above Colorado’s famed 14ers. Dubbed the “Puffy Grail” it’s since been attributed to a mass exhale sparked by lawmakers legalizing in-state recreational marijuana sales. It’s now kosher to purchase and smoke pot in Colorado—where Johnny Law allows—and as anglers prepare…
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Kickstarded
127 Hours. An un-edited collection of GoPro footage from my summer spent guiding on the Madison. Nine Pounds of Melted Mono. Art project using 60 spools of Trilene, a campfire, and two bottles of Evan Williams. Book Project: Tuesdays with Cheney: 50 Places You’ll Never Flyfish Before You Die Because Obamacare Pilfered Your Savings and…
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Ride with Clyde IX
Photos and words by Lucas Young There’s a fine line in winter steelheading between bliss and torment. If there was no hope for the first, there’d be little incentive to endure the latter. Riding in Clyde is a bit like that. In summer, he’s warm and smooth and stylish—blissful, even. But in February, with the…
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Silver Tiger Taimen
Photos by John Sherman On the hundred-and-first cast the first strip felt dull, the second heavy, and the third came tight with a thuggish throb. Silver and pink flashed underwater a split second before the river broke in a shower of water ten feet across. “Taimen! Taimen! Taimen!” yelled Victor Voydilov, who was popping up…
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Cool Caskets
Yeti, makers of grizzly-proof coolers to safeguard our really cheap boat beers, ramped up production of its latest PermaFrost-insulated vessel today: The Casket. What better way to send off the hunter or fisherman in your life? Watch it “Six ergonomic and highly durable YETI DoubleHaul handles have been added to the YETI Casket for comfortable…
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The BIG Year Contest
SINCE THE 1930s, the world of birding has held an informal contest to find out who can see or hear the largest number of species of birds within a calendar year. They call this contest The Big Year, and we thought it was time flyfishing had its own Big Year. Our contest will be run…
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Silver Tiger Taimen
In the spring 2014 issue, Ryan Peterson and photographer John Sherman mission to Russia for rare encounters with Siberia’s sea-run taimen. The following is an exclusive peek at what they found along the road to “Silver Tiger Taimen: One Salmon to Rule them All”. Watch it Via Ryan: “Sea-run taimen live in the Russian Far…
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6-Pack and Shooters: Jay Morr
Utah-based photographer Jay Morr can often be found with his lens slipping back and forth between separate universes. The first is familiar. It’s places with trout, drift boats, requisite dudes looking dude-ish, and the awesome esthetics of the West’s best waters. But Morr’s alternate reality, I hate to say it, looks even better. Musicians. Models.…
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Wild Fish Event Draws Haters
On April 11, the Native Fish Society (NFS), wild fish advocates, and financial donors will band together under the big top at Montgomery Park in Portland, OR, for what’s being billed as the “largest wild fish fundraiser/party in the universe.” In the other corner, Greg Osburn, of the Sandy-based Three Rivers Sportsman’s Alliance, plans to rain…
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Cortlandia
New York fishing tackle mainstay, Cortland Line, has been busy freshening up the joint. New site. Varied mix of fresh and salt lines. And something still peachy. Pacific Northwest spey guru and recent pro-staff addition, Way Yin, weighs in on the changes… “These days, there are good lines from a number of manufacturers that fit…
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Google-Float the Colorado
People have been running the Colorado River since John Wesley Powell and his ragtag squad of drifters commenced their storied journey into an unmapped Grand Canyon during the spring of 1869. Since then, the river has been tackled in everything from motorized rafts and jet sleds to wooden dories. It’s been conquered in mere days…
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Life of Patrik and Pig Farm Throwdown
If you’re like us, you’ve likely never experienced the legendary fishing prowess of Patrik Daugaard. Prepare to be blown away. Watch it Via Rolf Nylinder: “A lot of people have dreams. But Patrik Daugaard is not like a lot of people.” The Pig Farm Ink squad—flyfishing, tattoos, bitchin—is not like a lot of people either. Check out…
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Get You Some Pudatt
Hit play and add a little funk to your humpday grind. Flyfishing renaissance man Paul Puckett grooves to redfish wakes on glassy water. Watch it Via LC Journal and Flood Tide Co.
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Salty Fly 2014
They came, they saw, they won a tournament and made history. All in one day. RUSKIN, FLA—Chris Hargiss and teammate, Mani Pailer, dominated the 2014 Salty Fly with a back-to-basics approach. Others poled their way into position and threw from the bow with long presentations and sexy patterns. However, Hargiss caught his fish on foot…
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DAMNATION | SXSW
The US Army Corps of Engineers lists a heaping pile of 79,000+ dams in its nationwide inventory (NID). But those numbers are changing, for the better. DamNation—a Felt Soul, Stoecker Ecological, and Patagonia effort—documents the down-with-dams groundswell with its world premier at SXSW today. Watch it “This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea…
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Protectors of the Spatsizi
Wade Davis, a man dubbed Canada’s contemporary Indiana Jones, has been working to safeguard a Switzerland-size area from big industry exploits since the late ’70s. And together with local First Nations bands, hunters, fishermen, and environmental groups like the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, British Columbia’s Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park—where the headwaters of the Skeena,…
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March Madness Starts Now
Eliminate basketball from your bracket this spring. Insert fish. Cheeky’s March Madness lineup has been randomly seeded and features powerhouse first-round matchups such as mako shark vs. giant trevally, brook trout vs. tigerfish, and Atlantic salmon vs. carp. Since 2011, more than 10,000 votes have been cast, thousands of dollars raised, and underdogs crowned champions. Who…
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Epic Movies, Brah
BumpyWaters chief blogger/film critic, Jake Ricks, goes to the fishing movies and comes back wanting. Wanting less cliche, that is, and a return to flyfishing filmmaking’s halcyon days… when a guy named Smethurst roamed the beaches in search of roosters. Words to film by, via: “TOP 16 PHRASES YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY EDIT OUT OF YOUR…
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#GEOBASS
Team bass takes on a whole new persona, when the MotivFishing crew reunites to crush—or get crushed by—bucketmouths, peacocks, and smallies across the globe. Series sponsors now include booze-giant Budweiser and Evan Williams Whiskey. Bring on the swamps and glittery boats. Via Costa: “A group of experienced fly anglers and explorers take on the challenge…
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Skeena Anglers’ Auction
The Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition (SWCC) is a driving force behind initiatives aimed at protecting British Columbia’s Skeena River system—and its storied steelhead and salmon runs. Read more about the Sacred Headwaters campaign and its successful battle against a drill-happy Shell Global last summer, here. SWCC’s Anglers’ Auction starts on March 3. All funds go…
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Get TR[OUT]
A seasonal recap of big rising fish, a lot of coffee, snus, waiting around, and some of the most outstanding outhouse footage we’ve seen in a long time… Watch it Via Erik Spade and frontsidefly.com: “I think all of us probably at some point in our life had to explain to someone their interest in…
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Bead Fishers Pegged by Whip-Wielding Cossacks
However you choose to “fly fish” is your prerogative. Nevertheless, the great bead debate wages on, creating moral and ethical rifts between anglers with pegged beads in their kit and purists who prefer day-glo orange scuds. On Wyoming’s Grey Reef, fish and game is alerting anglers to the illegalities of the practice. Specifically, when fishing…
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