The Fly Fishing Hall of Fame is nestled in the Catskills of New York, and it now has eight new members. Highlights this year include famed author Thomas McGuane and longtime writer Stu Apte. McGuane, whose nickname in the 1970s was “Captain Berserk0,” is the other of Ninety-Two in the Shade, Panama, and Upstream: Fly Fishing in the [...]
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Trout and Grayling Fishing Trailer: Fly-Focus
This trailer from german director Marcus Seis will have you scrambling for your fly rod in no time. Some beautiful footage and big fish in this one. The grayling near the end is pretty cool too. These guys aren’t trout snobs either, they showcase the variety of species available on western rivers. – Rick Bach [...]
Salmon Fishing is excellent on Fraser river near Vancouver BC
October 3 Fishing Report: Fall Salmon fishing on the Fraser river is HOT Fraser river Chinook(King salmon) fishing is currently excellent for fish averaging 25 lbs. The river is in prime shape with great visibility and this makes for some hot action on our custom lures. Some fish over 50lb are hooked every year and [...]
Halibut on a Six-Weight Fly Rod from Alaska’s Kodiak Island?
A six-weight fly rod is good for a lot of things: big trout, medium-sized stripers, largemouth bass in thick cover and maybe even salmon, if you’re the sporting type. What it typically can’t hold up to, is halibut this big. A man known only as TWells submitted this photo to Moldy Chum, of a surprise [...]
Stripers on the Fly from Arizona?
When you think of striped bass fishing on the fly, the Southwest isn’t the first region that comes to mind. But if you’re creative and ambitious, different types of fishing can await you anywhere, and this video is proof. These might not be the cow stripers that are cruising the surf in New England right [...]
Impressive Video Shows Spawning Salmon, Brown Trout in Michigan
The annual salmon run is something that’s always fascinated us, and we’ve never seen it as up-close and personal as we have here. This video was shot in an area off-limits to anglers, and it shows a lot of coho salmon, and one brown trout, making their way up the Grand River in Grand Rapids, [...]
Amazing Underwater Tarpon Footage from the Cayman Islands
Most of the tarpon footage we see, as fishermen, involves a fly rod and a leaping fish. But to see these amazing creatures in their natural habitat, in enormous schools, gives us a new perspective on the species. This clip from Turtle Reef in the islands shows us these amazing fish in their natural habitat, [...]
Chipper Jones Gets a Fishing Rod as a Parting Gift from Marlins
Once Chipper Jones, the famous third baseman of the Atlanta Braves and future hall-of-famer, retires at the end of the season, he’ll likely have a lot more time to go fishing. And, according to USA Today, now he’ll have a rod to do it with. The Miami Marlins, as a parting gift to the retiring [...]
Dorado from Northwest Argentina
There are a lot of places we’d love to fish, and this is certainly one of them. From northwest Argentina, we have some beautiful footage of dorado, a gorgeous game fish, battling some fly rod anglers fortunate enough to visit there. We’re jealous and in awe. Thanks to Catch Magazine for sharing this. – Rick [...]
Harry Potter Star, Emma Watson, Gets Fly Rod from Fashion Designer, Karl Lagerfeld
We have praised Harry Potter star Emma Watson in the past for her support of fisheries conservation groups, like the Wild Trout Trust. Watson’s father is an avid flyfisherman, but she was the one who received a pretty nice fly rod from a pretty unlikely person. Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer who’s worked with Chanel and [...]
