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Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
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...
Culture
Talk Story
For 11 years now The Fly Fishing Film Tour, or F3T, has been bringing anglers together to celebrate all things fishy. What started out as small run of grassroots get-togethers at a few fly shops around the country, has grown...
Culture
Shakedown Cruise
ABOVE “Brad Befus decorates the bow during a day when it all seemed to come together on the upper Colorado River. We threw big dries, streamers, little dries, nymphs—everything worked and there was glory all around.” Photo: Tim Romano It...
Open Water
Behind the Lodge
ABOVE On the tiny St. Brandon’s Atoll, located 300 miles off the Mauritius mainland in the Indian Ocean, a local mechanic fixes, cleans and rigs boat engines. When you’re in a location as remote as this, MacGyver skills are essential....
Culture
Some Kind of Exotic
Above Photo: Copi Vojta View Photo Essay Exotic probably isn’t the first word the comes to mind at the mention of British Columbia, Canada. But, Hilary Hutcheson begs to differ. Hutcheson grew up in Montana’s Flathead Valley and as soon...