Tippet Rings
A tiny metal ring saves your leader and your knot-tying patience, one season at a time.
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Nome Buckman
Articles from Nome Buckman.
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Hair Clips
Why a fly tier buys hair clips by the dozen, and why the checkout clerk never quite believes the explanation.
Freshette
A pee funnel that actually works, tested on porches, cliffs and snowbanks until it could spell her name.
Wading Staff
Wading where you shouldn't? A staff can be the difference between a good story and a cold swim.
Rejects
Why the ugliest flies in your box, the ones you can't bring yourself to tie on, might be the ones steelhead actually want.
Firewater
A homebrew habit sparks a look at why women anglers raise a glass on the water, and what they're actually drinking.
Mice
Night fishing for trout means casting blind, trusting your ears, and waiting for a cannonball hit you feel before you see.
Haunted
Seven hundred teeth, one fly, and a fish that glides up to the boat just to say no. This is what musky season does to you.
Da Perch
A compact bucktail streamer built to push water and draw strikes from toothy fish, without wearing out your casting arm.
Walk on the Safe Side
A survey of 78 women anglers gets honest about what really makes the river feel unsafe, and what they carry to feel ready anyway.