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Hooked
Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
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Jay Johnson
First published in Volume 15, Issue 2 of The Flyfish Journal Small planes flew low over the parking lot at first light and woke us up. It was a late-March cool morning in northeast Florida. Jay Johnson had generously given...
Open Water
ALWAYS CHANGING, ALWAYS THE SAME
First published in Volume 15, Issue 2 of The Flyfish Journal In 1969, an obsessed uncle led me—then 12 years old—to my first encounter with a wild winter steelhead, drift fishing an Okie Drifter on an Olympic Peninsula river in...
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Carpstroke
What is Carpstroke? It’s wondering why you came down here; long sagebrush bushwhacks; adrenaline spikes and blood sugar crashes, a swing from failure to elation mirrored only by that of the mercury in the thermometer. Carpstroke leaves you questioning the...
Cutbank
THERE’S HOPE IN HOPE VALLEY
First published in Volume 15, Issue 1 of The Flyfish Journal I sent Mandy an equipment list, which included a spinning rod. I wasn’t going to leave Rhode Island without her catching a fish. At Hope Valley Bait & Tackle...
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The Uncapturable
To attempt to capture the uncapturable is like solving a murder without any clues, suspects or witnesses. Most of the ocean’s wide breadth of life escapes our eyes. Think about that. Most of what the ocean produces we miss: it...
Water Reportage
What Happened So Far?
Species: Trout, Steelhead Date: Late October Location: Wild and Scenic Grande Ronde River, OR No. of days without cell service: 6.5 Miles floated: 39 Days/nights on the river: 7/6 High temperature: 70-something Low temperature: 30-something No. of days it rained:...
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Conflict and Resolution
Oliver Sutro wears many hats: he’s a filmmaker, photographer, artist and storyteller. He’s also a flyfisherman, and that’s what makes all the rest of it worthwhile. Growing up in Los Angeles, he didn’t have the opportunity to learn to fish...
Conservation
ON BREACHING THE SNAKE RIVER DAMS
First published in Volume 15, Issue 1 of The Flyfish Journal The Nez Perce call the river yáwwinma, meaning place of cold water. Non-Indigenous people refer to it as Rapid River. It’s the only stream Congress ever designated a Wild...
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Cache of Gold
Supported by Sage Follow Seth Blackamore as he takes a few new friends high into the Eastern Sierra in search of Golden Trout. Blackamore has been exploring these mountains and lakes for almost a decade and this adventure proved to...
Locale
HANDS IN THE WATER
First published in Volume 14, Issue 3 of The Flyfish Journal As a child, I was convinced the dock at our family’s lake house was the epicenter of all fish activity. My evidence was an arching mulberry tree that overhung...
