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Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
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Shutterbuggin' with Austin Coit
Shutterbuggin’ is a regular web feature where we chat with photo contributors, talking about photography, fly fishing and whatever else happens to come up. In our latest installment we caught up with photographer Austin Coit. The Flyfish Journal: Hi Austin,...
Open Water
Concentric Circles
Grandpa sent me out into the yard in search of a stick, “about yay big,” as he held his index fingers four inches apart. He carved off the bark, smoothed the surface, and pushed a sewing pin into the tip...
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Oman is Open
A pronouncement that you’re going flyfishing in Oman usually elicits a “that sounds rad,” followed by a lengthy pause and finally a quizzical, confused expression. “Wait—where is Oman again?” And that, for the geographically challenged (which, let’s be honest, is...
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Fishing by Thumb
After two weeks of fishing across the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Montana and Wyoming, I was desperate for a taste of civilization. The food I brought for the journey had dwindled and I’d been living on a diet of couscous and...
Confluence
The Important Things
For the second time in two weeks of my life I am flying over the Gulf of Mexico and wondering what it is I caught off the beach of Celestine Yucatan. Seatrout are out... Near shore lizard fish are in...
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Where It All Started with Karlie Roland
Karlie Roland has been fishing the Henry's Fork all her life. Her family has kept a cabin in Island Park, ID for as long as she can remember and she's returned every year for fishing and family reunions. In about...
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Five Laws of Fish
First Law of Fish Fish in the river shall remain in the river unless acted upon by an outside force. Force of nature. Failure of dam. Flood. Famine. Kingfishers. Fortune favors the bold, but bold fish find hooks driven home....
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Goners, For Sure
above Southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless Area isn’t famous for the size of its trout, but for its great amount of fishable water, access and stream health. However, when you find yourself on the stream on a sunny day in early spring,...
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Skagit Spring
If you’re lucky, you’ll find yourself knee deep in a slow push of un-fished water, half meditating and half hunting, sometimes with friends and sometimes alone and you’ll hope in your heart that a bright fish, not long from the...
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BahamaCon 2018
Every year staff and friends from The Flyfish Journal descend upon South Andros, Bahamas for BahamaCon, a casual gathering at Deneki's Andros South bonefish lodge, to chase bonefish, barracuda and all manner of beautiful things. Here is what happened this...
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Rod Time With Big Joe
Waist Deep Media is back with a new episode of Rod Time With Big Joe Episode 3 Yellowstoned. RT3 was an Official Selection of the 2018 Montana Fishing Film Festival. Follow along above and below as they get a healthy...
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The Ghosts of Casa Mar
above The Casa Mar lodge sits on the edge of Laguna Agua Dulce on the extreme northeast coast of Costa Rica just minutes by water from the Atlantic Ocean and the Nicaraguan border. In its heyday, the dock could get...