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Releasing a stillwater trout from Delaney Buttes Lakes, Colorado

4 Simple Items for Warmer Hands

Cold water is great for trout, not so much for your hands

End of the Year Round-Up: Our Best Articles from 2023

essential reads

End of the Year Round-Up: Our Best Articles from 2023

Highlighting the essential reads from the past year's lineup of fly-fishing articles

pink pookie fly pattern, pink grasshopper fly pattern, pink hopper fly

grasshoppers Featured

Pink Grasshoppers Really Do Exist

In our never-ending quest to explain why unexpected colors work as fly patterns I found some insights in an unlikely place... the museum...

Temple Fork Outfitters, Axiom II-X fly rod, an affordable TFO masterpiece

Instant Favorite: TFO Axiom II-X Fly Rod Review

This fly rod has become an instant favorite, reviewing the tfo axiom 2-x fly rod

Walking the banks, fly fishing for urban carp, Denver South Platte River

Carper's Almanac: We Studied Carp Behavior for Two Years

We chased urban carp around for two year at a set of fixed locations, checking in regularly, and logged details to each encounter, what did we learn?

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: Releasing a cutbow from the South Platte River

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 11) Measuring Success

I think it's fair to assume every angler hopes to catch lots of fish, and even better, big fish.... but...

mysis tailwater fly fishing, mysis fly pattern

History of the Mysis Fishery: Gaffe to Gold Medal

Gather around the fire and let me tell you a fly fishing tale of how mysis ended up feeding fish well downstream from the intended destination.

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: private waters

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 10) What About Private Waters?

With all the talk of finding new waters, the liminal spaces and overlooked fisheries, it begs the question; what about paying for access to private waters?

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: fly fishing for carp to avoid pressured rivers

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 9) Marketing and Importance of Carp

How to fly fishing for picky trout, Rainbow trout from the North Platte, Wyoming, fly fishing grad school

technical trout Featured

Crash Course in Picky Trout Behavior: An Angler's Playbook

Fly fishing graduate school: Welcome to the big-leagues of trout fishing. You better come prepared.

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: building a fly box for exploration

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 8) Liminal Fly Box

fly fishing for picky trout, how to catch finicky trout, targeting stubborn trout, grad school of fly fishing

Crash Course in Picky Trout Behavior

Fly Fishing graduate school: Understanding a picky trout can be the difference-maker when trying to present flies to these stubborn fish.

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: finding new waters for fly fishing, low pressured rivers

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 7) Finding the Liminal Spaces Within Your Favorite Fisheries

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: new directions in fly fishing, unique fisheries

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 6) New Horizons in Angling

dive into an exploration of some new intriguing fisheries, and highlight innovative, or unexpected directions for fly fishing

Landing a trout from a tailwater, South Platte River using indicators, airlock, thingamabobber, oros, strike indicator

indicator nymphing

More Indicator Secrets

Have you ever felt like your indicator rig was moving too fast? As if sliding over the water's surface and preventing your flies from presenting deeper?

Overcrowding 5) The Stage Is Set

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 5) The Stage Is Set

Up next: Let’s look at how revitalizing exploration can serve to improve all of our angling endeavors.

Fly fishing for carp with Umpqua's Headstand fly pattern, Egan's Headstand, Denver South Platte

Weird Flies that Work: Chartreuse Headstand

I have a slight obsession chartreuse fly patterns...

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: rivers like the Green River at Flaming Gorge, Utah is always busy

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 4) How Did We Get Here? Flawed Icons

Exploring how iconic destinations are vulnerable, even flawed icons

umpqua pink fluorocarbon tippet, tarpon fly fishing, rigging for tarpon, pink tippet

pink fluorocarbon

Pink Tippet?

Comparing Pink Fluorocarbon Tippet vs Clear

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: iconic rivers are getting too pressured for fly fishing

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 3) How Did We Get Here? Over Reliance on Blue Ribbon and Gold Medal Fisheries

So how do fish respond to increased fishing pressure? Plus how does catch and release affect their behavior?

how does trout memory work? they remember flies after large hatches like the salmonfly hatch

pattern hangover

Fish Memory and Pattern Hangover

You missed the big hatch, but if you know a little about how trout brains work you might know that you're window of opportunity hasn't fully closed yet...

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: over-reliance on fly fishing for stocked trout, rainbow trout from hatcheries

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 2) How Did We Get Here? Hatchery Obsessed

...feel free to stop at any local pond, Hell, just follow the hatchery truck around and sooner or later you'll stumble upon a plethora of rainbow trout...

Bass vision, how do flies like bass poppers, Mr Wiggly, Slumpbusters, other assorted bass flies look?

largemouth bass

More Clues on Fish Vision (Bass Edition)

Can fish see color? Bass don't see our flies like you'd expect...

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: human dimensions in conservation are not well understood, fly fishing

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 1) How Did We Get Here? Human Tendencies

There are generational impacts on the world we see today, with actions set in place long before our existence.

salmonfly fly pattern

Improving the Salmonfly Dry Fly

We walk through tying a modified 64 Impala fly pattern and clarify how to customize this recipe to match the hatch beyond the original