Even more endangered than the elusive tree octopus, there are now less than 750 native greenback cutthroat living in the wild. The last pack of hanging-ons inhabits a remote, high-gradient stream that the conservation-focused Colorado Greenbacks organization is working to protect. Watch it Via the Greenbacks: “Through January of 2014 we’re running an Indiegogo Project…
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David Mangum and the crew at Shallow Water Expeditions introduce a fifth season in this heavy-hitting skinny water edit. Check out “The Shallow Season”, starring the best redfishing footage you’ll see all week. Via Shallow Water Expeditions: “As the Fall set in and weather cools the Fly fishing for redfish here in our local water…
DetailsDavid Mangum and the crew at Shallow Water Expeditions introduce a fifth season in this heavy-hitting skinny water edit. Check out “The Shallow Season”, starring the best redfishing footage you’ll see all week. Via Shallow Water Expeditions: “As the Fall set in and weather cools the Fly fishing for redfish here in our local water…
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Idylwilde Flies last week filed a lawsuit against Umpqua Feather Merchants—the company that recently purchased and started selling in-limbo Idylwilde product from production facilities in the Philippines. Via its social media channels and blog, Idylwilde owner Zach Mertens announced that, “…Idylwilde legally filed for its right to claim the flies from Umpqua and Mirabel….” He…
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Terrace, B.C., boasts stashes of awesomeness from bottom to top. On the ground it straddles the banks of the Skeena, with stone’s-throw access to some of the planet’s best wild steelhead tribs. And at altitude, you’ll find a backcountry experience marked by massive annual snowfall and untouched lines. Skins & Fins drops in with just…
DetailsTerrace, B.C., boasts stashes of awesomeness from bottom to top. On the ground it straddles the banks of the Skeena, with stone’s-throw access to some of the planet’s best wild steelhead tribs. And at altitude, you’ll find a backcountry experience marked by massive annual snowfall and untouched lines. Skins & Fins drops in with just…
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Earlier this month a group of Fort Collins, Colorado-based flyfishers fused the ancient arts of beer drinking and hackle stacking for the first in a series of “Iron Fly” events. Loosely based on the Iron Chef TV show—but with more drinking and lots of yelling—contestants are presented with mystery ingredients from which they craft flies…
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Proving that people who flyfish for carp are freakish—in an awesome way—”Long Shot” follows an angling couple’s love of ol’ rubberlips across Colorado’s Front Strange. Watch It Via The Fly Collective: Jay Zimmerman and Erin Block share glimpses in to their lives as authors, creators of proven fly patterns, and anglers. Fly fishing for carp…
DetailsProving that people who flyfish for carp are freakish—in an awesome way—”Long Shot” follows an angling couple’s love of ol’ rubberlips across Colorado’s Front Strange. Watch It Via The Fly Collective: Jay Zimmerman and Erin Block share glimpses in to their lives as authors, creators of proven fly patterns, and anglers. Fly fishing for carp…
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Thanks to a new report from ecologists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the ocean’s impact on species survival—such as juvenile steelhead and salmon leaving the Columbia and entering the Pacific—is one step closer to being solved. “The study provides a snapshot of salmon behavior at a crucial time, after a migration from…
DetailsThanks to a new report from ecologists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the ocean’s impact on species survival—such as juvenile steelhead and salmon leaving the Columbia and entering the Pacific—is one step closer to being solved. “The study provides a snapshot of salmon behavior at a crucial time, after a migration from…
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Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat gas station food for a lifetime. We’d planned on fishing Michigan’s Pere Marquette on Thursday, but nearly every river in the state blew out. So we took aim at a tailwater and drove to the Boardman River in…
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Sometimes rain is your best friend, and sometimes it’s your worst enemy. Today was the latter. Our first stop was near the mouth of a mid-size Lake Huron trib. We were soaked before our rods were strung. Jason went upstream with an indicator rig while I stayed low to swing down to the mouth. A few hours…
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Deneki Outdoors—with lodges in Alaska, British Columbia, and the Bahamas—was sold this week to a Dallas, Texas-based family with ties in the destination flyfishing game that run two-decades deep. Despite the sale, there are no short-term plans to dissolve the successful brand started by former owner Andrew Bennett in 2004. The trio of lodges on…
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Chuck and Duck blogger Alex Cerveniak goes roadtripping steelhead-style this week. His mission: To fish tribs to all five Great Lakes, while cultivating epic facial hair, dining on gas station grub, and writing about all things along the way. Part II, from a barstool in Cecil Bay, MI, starts here. —Ed As a fisherman, I’m…
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Overshadowed by Pebble Mine but equally troubling when it comes to potential for a large-scale environmental beatdown, a dam proposal targeting the Susitna River continues to make headway. Alaska recently authorized expenditures of $165 million to push the project through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s expedited permitting process. Matt Stoecker and Travis Rummel, who’ve teamed…
DetailsOvershadowed by Pebble Mine but equally troubling when it comes to potential for a large-scale environmental beatdown, a dam proposal targeting the Susitna River continues to make headway. Alaska recently authorized expenditures of $165 million to push the project through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s expedited permitting process. Matt Stoecker and Travis Rummel, who’ve teamed…
DetailsOvershadowed by Pebble Mine but equally troubling when it comes to potential for a large-scale environmental beatdown, a dam proposal targeting the Susitna River continues to make headway. Alaska recently authorized expenditures of $165 million to push the project through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s expedited permitting process. Matt Stoecker and Travis Rummel, who’ve teamed…
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Chuck and Duck blogger Alex Cerveniak goes roadtripping steelhead-style this week. His mission: To fish tribs to all five Great Lakes, while cultivating epic facial hair, dining on gas station grub, and writing about all things along the way. “Part I” starts here. —Ed I’m rolling into my mid-30s and everything is going just fine. Got…
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Waypoints, a new flyfishing film by Confluence, premiers this week in select cities across the country. Join The Drake at Denver’s Oriental Theater on Friday night and prepare to get loose. Dan “Rooster” Leavens scoops up a handful of steel in this underwater-porn enriched AK edit, below. Watch it Waypoints is a multi-segmented flyfishing film…
DetailsWaypoints, a new flyfishing film by Confluence, premiers this week in select cities across the country. Join The Drake at Denver’s Oriental Theater on Friday night and prepare to get loose. Dan “Rooster” Leavens scoops up a handful of steel in this underwater-porn enriched AK edit, below. Watch it Waypoints is a multi-segmented flyfishing film…
DetailsWaypoints, a new flyfishing film by Confluence, premiers this week in select cities across the country. Join The Drake at Denver’s Oriental Theater on Friday night and prepare to get loose. Dan “Rooster” Leavens scoops up a handful of steel in this underwater-porn enriched AK edit, below. Watch it Waypoints is a multi-segmented flyfishing film…
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Turning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month. “We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”…
DetailsTurning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month. “We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”…
DetailsTurning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month. “We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”…
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I pulled into the Aspen Recreation Site just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 3rd, after a 13-hour, nearly nonstop rental-car bender from Vancouver. The site is the lowest of three B.C. Ministry campgrounds along the Morice River, sitting about eleven miles southwest of Houston—home of the world’s largest fly rod, the world’s largest sawmill,…
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The fly-tying company that lost—and blogged—it all On the morning of May 19, 2013, Idylwilde Flies founder Zach Mertens stared into his computer screen, digesting the bizarre circumstances that had sent his business spiraling. He then began punching paragraphs into the keyboard with the kind of blunt transparency unexpected of a company president and owner…
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