Kaitlin Glines-Barnhart

lives in Cour d'Alene, Idaho. She has a BA in Psychology and currently writes for Idaho Life Magazine. In her free time, she enjoys exploring rivers with her family, encouraging others to find adventure through fly fishing and admins the Women's Fly Fishing Facebook Page.

3 posts

The Year of the Dry-Dropper Science Experiment

Hopper-dropper in early Spring, late Fall, and wait, even Winter? I became serious about the dry-dropper set up, outside of grasshopper season, after starting my journey with tight line nymphing. I was quickly addicted to jig-hooks, tungsten bead nymphs, landing big fish on a 3 wt 12ft rod, with 6 or 7x tippet size, and learning a new way to drift that is so effective. I realized one day in late winter, that despite my rod length, I couldn’t reach out to the sections of water that looked sup

9/2/2020Kaitlin Glines Barnhart

Young Women Need Rivers

As she pauses to acknowledge the river rolling around her knees, she hears a fish slap the water. She smiles, opens her fly box and envisions that fish filling up her net. She’s a teenage girl, and her only concern for the day is exploring a river and being detached from the world; something she’s begun to crave. She’s not worrying about what she looks like, counting all the ways she isn’t adding up or fearing what her friends are doing without her. She doesn’t know that this river time is rela

6/30/2017Kaitlin Glines Barnhart

Gender

Actual Survey Question: Why aren’t there more women in fly-fishing? Actual Answers to this Question: Because they are home making sandwiches. Cause men drool at them. No mirrors to check their make-up. Because there are no toilets. 2 buzy cooking and cleaning. Kids to raise. They should be banned anyways- it’s the only peace we get. They can’t pick out an outfit. Same reason men don’t knit or make jewelry. They don’t like cold water. They don’t like to get their hands dirty. They only like to

9/15/2015Kaitlin Glines Barnhart

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The Year of the Dry-Dropper Science Experiment

Young Women Need Rivers

Gender