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Features
Pride of the Quinault
The Quinault Indian Nation boasts some of the largest wild steelhead on earth. Now, if we can only keep them that way.
By Trey Combs

The Lagoon Factor
Chasing snook and tarpon at Mexico’s Paradise Lodge, on the southern Yucatan coast.
By Tom Bie

Good Times in Terrace
Sketchy snowpack and a steelhead solution in British Columbia’s Coast Range.
Photos by Drew Stoecklein
Captions by Tyler Maxwell

Departments

Page Six Chix
One brown, one red, one brook

Put-in
Feeling salty

Rises
Drake editors remap Michigan… and fail

Scuddlebutt
Groundhog Day for salmon, Magnuson-Stevens Act in action, your new 2014 fishing license, Clyde’s sleepover with Puget Sound silvers, and a New York apparel company takes fishing to the streets.

Tailwater Weekend
Road-tripping to Arkansas’ White River
By Zach Matthews

Tippets
An unforgettable rant on spey rigs, summertime salmon for the mid-winter blues, how to swallow a hopper whole, one great driftboat, Grand Bahamas bonefish, and hanging with old guys that rule.

Redspread
In Texas, it’s best not to piss-off the locals
By Tosh Brown

Passport
Master wrasse of the Indo-Pacific
By Jako Lucas

Bugs
Midges. Because it’s winter, that’s why.
Images by Nick Price, Lucas Carrol, and Corey Kruitbosch

City Limits
More strange for Colorado’s Front Range
By Michael Israelson

Rod Holders
Liminal lessons with Josh DeSmit
By Joshua Prestin

Backcountry
Mangrove roots and 150 pounds of poon
By Monte Burke

Permit Page
Mini-doppelganger gets its due.