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Hooked
Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
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SWINGING FLIES ON BC’S SOUTH COAST
View Full Feature KARLIE ROLAND’S HANDS ARE BLEEDING. We’re about halfway through our first day fishing southwestern BC’s Squamish River. It’s mid-November and we’re targeting the run of Chum Salmon. Yos Gladstone, owner of Chromer Sport Fishing, is our guide....
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Daughters of Flyfishing: A Postscript
Above: Bridget Moran laying down loops on the Olympic Peninsula. Photo: Colin Wiseman I’ll acknowledge this right away — I had some choice words to say about my time at The Fly Fishing Shows the last two weekends. However, what...
Conservation
GHOST TOWN
above Ghost-town brown. Despite it’s complicated history, the Bóbr’s murky waters still hide a good population of trout. Photo: Arek Kubale The view from the edge of Poland’s Bóbr River is overwhelming. I’m standing on the remnants of a bridge...
Adventure
You Are Now Alone
above By mid-September, the nights turn cold and the river valleys of Alaska’s Togiak National Wildlife Refuge display the reds and golds of autumn—at least that’s what the pictures looked like after we got home. We spent the entire time...
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...
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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...
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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...