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Articulating Shanks

A handful of bent wire hooks that turn into big, hungry-fish flies, tested on tiger musky and bound for striped bass next.

6/15/2017•Nome Buckman•1 min read

Aquatic Earthworms

A tangled ball of worms in a shallow creek bed turns out to be a clue to how catfish noodling actually works.

6/15/2017•Nome Buckman•1 min read

Using Isopropyl Alcohol to Find Leaks in Waders

A bottle of rubbing alcohol can reveal the pinholes sabotaging your waders before the next trip does it for you.

6/15/2017•Nome Buckman•1 min read

The Gazetteer

Years of scribbled notes and secret spots turn a stack of state gazetteers into the most valuable thing in the truck.

6/15/2017•Nome Buckman•1 min read

Finding My Rhythm

A beginner's first day fly fishing, borrowed gear and all, turns into a lesson in patience and rhythm on the Little Wolf.

6/15/2017•Asha Anderson•7 min read

Caddis, Camping and Camaraderie in Colorado

A vintage trailer in spring snow, a river full of rising caddis, and a weekend built on the motto: no men, no kids, be nice, have fun.

6/15/2017•Sue Bjorkman•7 min read

New Zealand Reflections

A move to New Zealand's South Island for the fishing, and the slow lesson that the best water is sometimes the one you drive past.

6/15/2017•Kristina Royter•5 min read

Path to Conservation

Twenty years of river time turned a deckhand into a guide, a mother, and a steelhead advocate who won't stay quiet about what's at stake.

6/15/2017•Mia Sheppard•5 min read

What Native Trout Taught Me

Nine native trout species, one season, and a steep learning curve in roll casts, sight fishing, and staying out of a fish's shadow.

6/15/2017•Sarah Trenschel•7 min read

Boasting About the Driftless

Thirty minutes from Saint Paul sits a pocket of hills and trout streams the glaciers never touched, and a reason to keep driving south.

6/15/2017•Abigail Crider•4 min read