Trout Magazine

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Big Pike on a Fly

    The Canada-heavy series The New Fly Fisher (the show will occasionally come south of the border to highlight American fisheries, too) is one of my favorite fly-fishing shows to enjoy, largely because of episodes like the one below. I first ventured north to chase pike on the fly a little over a decade ago, and…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Into the Wild

    When the float plane disappears into the ether and all you're left with is the pile of gear you unceremoniously tossed from the hold, it takes a minute to realize that you're actually "out here," on the margins of survivability. You're alone (not lonely—that's different). You've got nothing but time to kill before that plane…

  • Good Tunes, Good Times and Tight Lines!

    Good Tunes, Good Times and Tight Lines! Hard to argue with that. When I asked Ben Noland recently if he’d be interested in supporting Trout Unlimited and my steelhead conservation work in the west, he immediately replied, “Of course, the biggest trout I ever caught was an Idaho steelhead!” Ben passed me along a photo…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: UV resin to secure parachute hackle

    Proof that really good fly tiers are also real innovators, Tim Flagler, in the short video below, demonstrates yet another way to tie a parachute-style dry fly. The method he demonstrates below seemed pretty dubious to me, but Flagler swears by it. Video of Parachute Hackle Method - "UV to the Post"Parachute-style dry flies are…