Steamboat Flyfisher has traversed several storefront locations over its more than a decade long morphology. From its Old Town Square digs to its newer, plusher location on Yampa Street, the shop today sits a rollcast away from the Yampa River, where across the street you can peer over the bridge railing, break out your rod,…
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Yellowstone Lake’s native Yellowstone cutthroat population has been decimated by nonnative lake trout. Park planners recently released a Native Trout Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment that proposes a long-term strategy to protect and restore cutthroat trout and other native fish. Jan. 31 marks the public commentary deadline. For more details hit Smithhammer’s latest blog…
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According to today’s Denver Post, Colorado’s Estes Park—home to the headwaters of the Big Thompson River—houses one of America’s Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels. Its Super 8 ranked No. 8. (Uncanny!) No word on whether this is directly correlated to area flyfisher traffic. But we have a hunch….
DetailsBackground: Yellowstone cutthroat are in serious decline in Yellowstone Lake largely thanks to predation from an exploding population of invasive, non-native lake trout. Numbers of cutthroat in the Yellowstone Lake ecosystem have dropped to less than five percent of the historic population. 25 years ago, spawning returns in the Clear Creek tributary were 50,000 fish per…
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Striped bass can’t catch a break these days. According to a recent piece by NPR catches are down again, and some biologists say the problem may be more weather induced than overfishing related this time.
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We had the winter itch. It needed to be scratched. So scratch we did. I’m not usually big into winter fishing. I’ve spent the vast majority of my life’s winter months in the mountains—riding a snowboard. It’s not I’m against fishing in the winter, it’s simply that I like being on the side of a…
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The mysterious 650-pound grand piano left on a sandbar at Biscayne Bay will stick around for encore presentations as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has no plans to move it.
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MICHIGAN—Ice fishing is a dangerous affair. In addition to frostbitten digits, and falling asleep and spilling your drink, you can now add being “fish slapped” to your list of fears.
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For $2,200 you can now own what might be the world’s most expensive mayfly. According to the Ebay listing, we’re looking at a Lithuanian Ephemeroptera Heptageniidae Needaham. Translation: Shiny, dead spinner. Place your bids after the jump.
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We hope you’re as excited as we are. Behold, straight from Panama (a country synonymous with fine single malts) we bring you canned Scottish Spirits.
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Has this whole thing become just a little overly serious? It’s hard to imagine, but I continue seeing far too many anglers on the river who can barely be distracted to acknowledge a fellow angler, focused on the serious task at hand, or treating others like competition. Those who give the look of suspicion, as…
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PERRY, GA—The Go Fish Georgia Education Center is a massive new fishing museum with interactive models and bream and bass swimming in aquarium-size tanks. Its pre-recession sites were aimed at generating tourism buzz, but a $14 million price tag has left critics questioning the merits of its ongoing state-funded expenditures.
ANTARCTICA—Although we, too, have been mistaken for helpless and hungry, penguin sashimi has yet to enter the equation. Paul Nicklen documents his recent encounter with a highly intuitive leopard seal in this series of photographs.
As far as we know there are NO fish in Alberta. Faceless Fly Fishing does its best to prove us wrong with this tits 5-minute video.
There are two types of fly shops out there, destination and local. Oak Orchard Fly Shop defiantly falls into the latter category. Of course this was not always the case.
In addition to bonfires and launching them off the balcony (into the neighbor’s backyard), aquatic habitat projects have become increasingly popular destinations for leftover Christmas trees.
In addition to bonfires and launching them off the balcony (into the neighbor’s backyard), aquatic habitat projects have become increasingly popular destinations for leftover Christmas trees.
From what we’ve seen of Gordon Ramsay’s TV antics, there’s no limits to the douchebaggery of Britain’s top cooking nitwit. The chef was recently doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint while “investigating” illegal shark fishing in Costa Rica. We’re just surprised no one’s tried to kill him sooner.
The Greenbacks, a newly formed group of young, passionate Colorado TU members, are hosting the Surface Film photography exhibit through the month of February 2011 in the heart of downtown Denver’s Santa Fe Art District.
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Winter is tailwater time in Colorado. Today’s Denver Post explores the Arkansas river below Pueblo Dam, where it finds a mix of risers amidst habitat improvements sparked by the Pueblo Arkansas River Corridor Legacy Project.
Forced to choose, we’d rather ride a Prius than a sheep. (You know what they say, What happens in New Zealand….) Thanks to an Israeli ad for the Toyota Prius, we’re told that its emissions produce markedly less ozone eaters (GHGs) than nature’s wooly buggers and their methane toxic “exhausts.”
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By and by contemporary adventure has fallen victim to marketing hype and pricey handheld pursuits dressed up in the guise of doing something dangerous. Time to man up, man. In this case that means more life, death and, perhaps, loincloths.
The One That Got Away is a common, haunting theme in flyfishing. We’ve fished through many examples: the brown that chowed our Home Invader, hauled a mile upstream, never to be seen again; and the ill-fated fishing poses of uncooperative SOBs that kick wake in your face in the midst of capturing the “shot of…
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The December issue of National Geographic magazine has a 25-page feature on Bristol Bay and the Pebble Mine controversy titled “Alaska’s Choice: Salmon or Gold”. On the page facing the table of contents, Tiffany & Co. placed this full-page ad stating the company’s thoughts about Bristol Bay. “All that the American West once was, Alaska still is.…
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With passengers still stranded after Chersnowbyl buried New York City airports and other Eastern hubs earlier this week, here’s a lesson to all the idiots out there.
Author David James Duncan (The River Why) recently joined forces with the All Against the Haul campaign—a grassroots, four-state effort working to stop the construction of a permanent industrial corridor for oversized loads to the Alberta Tar Sands through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. All proceeds from his new book The Heart of the Monster,…
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If you find yourself lonely and sober over the holiday season, Esquire Magazine has the remedy. Its simple yet satisfying drinking game for drinking’s sake requires little more than you, a bottle, and a warm seat at your favorite local establishment.