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Hooked
Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
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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...
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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...
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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...
Locale
The Queen of Central Park
The queen of Central Park was enormous, an aged creature from a long time ago. All the other carp got out of her way and kissed her ass. She was swimming along the darkened windows of the Boathouse restaurant, closed...
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Water Sabbath | Full Movie
Water Sabbath is the collaborative project between Mike Thienes (Filmmaker) and Jake Keeler (Visual Artist). It explores the idea of water and the outdoors as filters that generate creativity, peace, and meaning beyond the daily grind. Alongside the film, the...
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Invisible Restoration
When I was 10 or 12 years old, I watched my father destroy a 19th-century Meissen service plate, a tavern scene with scarlet reticulated edges trimmed with gold leaf. Our house was like a small porcelain museum—a midnight blue Limoges...
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Movement and Mindfulness
Anybody who thinks flyfishing lacks athleticism has never vaulted over a downed log on the path to the water, balanced on a snot-slick river bottom with a thigh-deep current pressing against their legs, or thrown so many casts in a...