Video
I Will Die Here, My Friend
Sea-run Brown Trout on the Fly in Tierra del Fuego
Culture
Shutterbuggin' with Aaron Goodis
above Zak Banwel and Mike Ing gear up in hopes of tangling with a steelhead from the Vedder River near Chilliwack, BC. Selecting the right line, tip, leader length and fly are crucial to success when fishing for steel. Take...
Open Water
1-800-BEATDOWN
above “Bobby Foster reclines on a washed-up beach chair found during a steelhead rendezvous in western Washington State. A good time was had, but the 1-800-BEATDOWN counselors would have come in handy on this trip.” Photo: Copi Vojta Swinging for...
Travel
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One Day: Deschutes River
Columbia river steelhead are struggling. That’s old news. They’ve been having a rough go of it for a while now. Since Whitey showed up, really. But, the numbers out of the Big C and it’s feeder rivers are especially sad...
Conservation
Net Pen Peril
As any Puget Sound flyfisher can attest, the region’s anadromous species, including seriously dwindling stocks of wild steelhead and chinook have taken too many hits over the decades: overfishing, hatcheries, gillnetting the rivers, urban runoff, loss of spawning habitat… And...
Conservation
Repeal, Remove, Regret
above “Doug Roland and I left the ramp early on a chilly December morning, headed north from Charleston, SC, toward Cape Romain to fish some not-so-familiar water. Long runs in tiny skiffs are always a treat when the wind isn’t...
Profile
Searching for Sheridan
My first copy of The Curtis Creek Manifesto was given to me by an old professor. He wasn’t much of a fisherman, but he knew about such things. I told him I’d taken up flyfishing, and he went looking for...
Cutbank
A Spool of Mono
ABOVE A large peacock bass from the Amazon River drainage grabs big air. On these rivers, everything from voracious piranha to 100-pound catfish to vampire-fanged payara is ready to throw down. Bring wire tippet and beefy sticks. Photo: Rafael Costa...
Conservation
Signs of Life - Enter Contest Below
Northwest Washington State's Skagit River is home to a threatened wild steelhead population. "Signs of Life: Seeking Wild Steelhead on the Skagit River" tells the story of steelhead conservation on the Skagit through the flyfishers who ply its waters. Presented...
Fiction
On Account of Opening Day
above Puget Sound has many faces. Sometimes it’s white-capped and violent, other days so calm even the faintest ripple expands in endless, perfect rings. Rick Groman enjoys the quiet embrace of a breathless evening and feeding sea-run cutthroat on a...
Cutbank
Ragati Reds
above “Prior to exploring Kenya’s Ragati River, we’d only heard rumor of Ragati reds, a rainbow phenotype with blood-red flanks. The males show off large kypes and spawning battle scars, while the gorgeous hens are blessed with green-black spots no...
Photo Essay
BahamaCon 2017
View Feature It is a two-ocean kind of day. I look out the right window, early in the morning staring at the Pacific as we leave Los Angeles. Banking south and to the east, there are the Channel Islands. After...