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I Will Die Here, My Friend
Sea-run Brown Trout on the Fly in Tierra del Fuego
Interview
Michi Meko
First published in Volume 14, Issue 2 of The Flyfish Journal In 2017, Michi Meko received a text message from a friend encouraging him to apply to an artist residency called Cabin Time. That year, the residency—which brought together creatives...
Mystery
Down the Path Podcast
On August 5, 1995, Bahamian flyfishing lodge owner Stanley Bain, his brother William, Hubert Mackey and two other unidentified crew members left Andros Island in a 36-foot cabin cruiser with two additional skiffs. From all accounts, their mission was to...
Cutbank
Goose Creek
First published in Volume 14, Issue 2 of The Flyfish Journal Random stunted stalks of wheat, interlopers amid the native grasses, rose defiantly alongside the dirt path. In the adjoining rock-strewn field, the crop was sparse, indicative of the land’s...
Conservation
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
First published in Volume 14, Issue 1 of The Flyfish Journal Wandering through the parched hills and canyons of Southern California, it’s hard to imagine that southern steelhead once thrived in this ecosystem. With a range of roughly 450 coastline...
Gallery
At the Confluence
First published in Volume 14, Issue 1 of The Flyfish Journal Bri Dostie lives in a confluence, a mixture of nature, art, pioneering women, community and angling, all against the backdrop of the Maine outdoors. The relationships and connections between...
Water Reportage
NO COHO, ALL OF THE BLUES
Species: Coho Date: September 2022 Location: Salish Sea, WA Various seabirds play, hunt and squawk. Seals make their rounds at certain tides. Barely visible porpoises’ porpoise. Baitfish pass in the shallows. Everything feels right so often. High tides lazily rearrange...
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Life is Better with a Dog
Supported by Yakima Racks, Bajío Sunglasses & Rainier Beer Life is already way better if there's a dog involved in all aspects of it and there's not one time that I've ever been like 'I wish my dog wasn't here.'...
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Dollysquatch 2.0
Supported by Trout Unlimited In the summer of 2021, we embarked on a search into Washington state’s North Cascades to shadow North Sound Trout Unlimited chapter president Bridget Moran as she continued the chapters Environmental DNA (eDNA) project. Through genetic...
Cutbank
THE APPROPRIATE FEELINGS OF SUPERIORITY
Mike’s wife, Dianna, thinks that getting eaten by a shark would be a good way to die. She says it would be like “falling asleep in a blender.” For what it’s worth, I’d prefer a heroin overdose. If you patrol...
Water Reportage
SKATEBOARD-SIZED TROUT ARE MACKING PMDS, YELLOW SALLIES AND JOHNNY THUNDER’S HEN-WING DUNS
SPECIES: BROWNS & BOWSDATE: EARLY JULYLOCATION: FREMONT COUNTY | SOUTHWEST MT | NORTHERN WY HENRY’S FORK, LOWER RIVER The POWER CREW IS ON and meets at Big Juds, home of the famous One Pound Burger, in Ashton, ID, to hunt...
Water Reportage
Worms From the Sky
SPECIES: CARPS DATE: HIGH WATER LOCATION: COLUMBIA RIVER I played hooky from the desktop and had been hearing reports of high water, which the United States Geological Survey’s real-time tools confirmed. It may just be the most moving water passing...
Confluence
Incantation at Little Skookum Inlet
almost two years on I schedule time I meet her where the eagles glide the gulls cry and otters slip like mercury the inlet empties a river summoned by the moon shofar of gravity ultimate power play laying bare the...