Tag: spring 2018

Against The Flow

A Kentucky teen traded spin rods for fly line and found conservation, confidence, and a goal to fish all fifty states.

3/21/2018•Sydney Abbott•3 min read

New Waters

Three trips to Austria and Slovenia, a lost suitcase, and a circle of women anglers who turned strangers into friends on crystal-clear rivers.

3/21/2018•Rebecca Blair•7 min read

All Hands On Deck

Before she ever cast a fly, she was hauling cod and haddock on commercial decks off Maine, learning the coast from fishermen who read the water better than any instrument.

3/21/2018•Mattie Rodrigue•6 min read

Bear Spray

A can of bear spray, a few too many unsolicited proposals, and the real talk women anglers are having about fishing in peace.

3/21/2018•Bridget Moran•3 min read

I Wasn't Born With a Rod In My Hand

She didn't grow up with a rod in her hand, but one sea trout at twenty-six was enough to change everything.

3/21/2018•Irena Mathiasen•2 min read

Baby Steps

A river, a backpack, and a baby who'd rather watch the water than nap through it.

3/21/2018•Veera Viitanen•4 min read

Wilderness Disorder

One woman's lifelong, half-joking confession about the need for wilderness that overtakes calendars, sitters, and common sense.

3/21/2018•Robin Schmidt•9 min read

Bullsugar

A pasty-blue algae bloom chokes a Florida canal, the ugly flip side of the fishery that pulled one angler south for good.

3/21/2018•Emily Mauri•4 min read

Mom Season

Before the fly rod, there was a bat, a diamond, and a sunset like this one—the last innings of a season that had to end so another could begin.

3/21/2018•Linda Galambos•3 min read

Love Affair

A grass-stained farm girl falls for fly fishing one stubborn cast at a time, from Eastern Cape streams to the Vaal's golden yellowfish.

3/21/2018•Carmen Barends•5 min read

The Life Vest

A daughter watches her mother wade deep in a big river, and thinks about the tether that holds them together, on the water and off.

3/21/2018•Erica Hickey•3 min read

Asheville

Forget the mansion tour. In Asheville, the real draw is a drift boat, a bent rod, and a brown trout like this one.

3/21/2018•Dun Magazine•1 min read