Family Ties That Bind
How a family business became one girl's passion and profession
Tag: empower
Lahontan Through Different Eyes
At Pyramid Lake, learning to cast is just the start. A tribal fly fishing camp teaches kids and visitors why these waters and their fish are sacred.
Abbie Schuster
Guide Abbie Schuster on sight-casting stripers off Martha's Vineyard, chasing albies into the backing, and why bonefish still win her heart.
The Golden Rule
She wasn't allowed to touch his fly rods. Then one afternoon on the creek, she couldn't help herself.
Da Perch
A compact bucktail streamer built to push water and draw strikes from toothy fish, without wearing out your casting arm.
Finland
Smooth coastal rock, still water, and a sky that won't quit — a quiet glimpse of the Finnish shoreline that opens into wilderness fishing.
Apple Pie Sidecar
A sidecar gets reworked with apple pie whiskey instead of Cognac, for sipping after a long day on the water.
Wild
A fish's ear bone holds its whole life story, and researchers are learning to read it to trace steelhead back to the streams where they hatched.
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.
Treasures
A wader designer traces her path from rockhounding kid to fly angler, and what it taught her about building gear made for women.
Mice
Night fishing for trout means casting blind, trusting your ears, and waiting for a cannonball hit you feel before you see.
Trash
Everyone said the ditch wasn't worth fishing. She found a fish the length of her own body hiding in it.