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New gear: O’Pros gear lineup
I've become a fly-fishing minimalist. I think, save for maybe a couple trips north this summer to chase pike, I foresook all external gear holders and simply took to stuffing my pockets with necessary items, like nippers, hemostats, a bottle of fly floatant, a spool of tippet and maybe a box of flies in each…
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Video spotlight: Striker’s Point Lodge
In the summer of 2017, I was lucky enough to join a group of friends on a quick trip to northwest Ontario, where we visited a couple of lodges with Mark Melnyk, who works for Wildnerness North, which owns and operates a handful of lodges in the North Woods. One of these lodges was Stiker's…
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Gear test: The new Redington Butterstick
Mike Sepelak fishes the Redington Butterstick on a remote Idaho freestoner for native cutthroat trout. Photo by Chris Hunt. When I unzipped the bright orange rod tube containing the new Redington Butterstick and slowly lifted out the three-piece length of snazzy white fiberglass, I swear I heard the trumpets warming up for a sweet rendition…
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New gear: Simms G3 camo waders
Good anglers consider every variable, particularly when they're stalking wary fish. I know that, when I'm on a spring creek casting carefully to rising trout in cold, clear water, I do my best limit my profile and carefully consider the color of clothing I wear— I usually go with muted earthton es, or, on bright,…
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Voices from the River: In praise of railroads
By Toner Mitchell Conservation-oriented anglers have at least a foggy idea of what American landscapes and waterways have gone through on their way to their current state. Since Europeans first landed here, we have generally grazed, logged, mined, drilled, dammed, channelized, polluted and otherwise dewilded our natural estate to within an inch of its life.…
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Alaskans: Ignore the Fake “Facts.” It’s about our communities who depend on fish!
By: TU Alaska staff Opponents of Ballot Measure One have bankrolled a misinformation machine. What’s more, they have painted the measure as an end to all development and jobs in Alaska. It is an attempt to scare Alaskans into voting against their own jobs. The truth is, our salmon habitat creates jobs and we can’t…
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Video spotlight: Crystal clear
If all brown trout in the Swedish Lapland are as eager as the fish in the video below to hit a dry fly, sign me up. How many times have you had multiple shots at the same brown, sight-fishing no less? Once, maybe, during the salmonfly hatch or at the height of hopper season? Video…
