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I Will Die Here, My Friend
Sea-run Brown Trout on the Fly in Tierra del Fuego
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...
Essay
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...
Cutbank
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...
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Desert Fly Fishing and Bikepacking: SHIFTING GEARS
Supported by Orvis, Fat Tire, & Yakima. In October 2021, a group of friends in southern Utah set out on a 58-mile bike tour with plans to fish several alpine lakes along the way. But as so often happens with...
Profile
How to Think About Bob Clay
The legend of Bob Clay is already well established: He’s one of the finest bamboo rod builders and steelhead fishermen on earth. To cast one of his cane spey rods is to feel the rhythm of nature. To fish with...
Interview
Surrendering to the Flow with Harry Desmond
Harry Desmond spends over 200 days a year on the water, spring through fall. But during winter when he’s not out as often, he feels a bit disconnected both mentally and physically. He believes that nature has this way of...
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FINDING DOLLYSQUATCH
With support from: Orvis, Fat Tire, and Yakima Some animal species are indicators of ecosystem health—the proverbial canary in a coal mine. In the case of Washington state’s North Cascade Mountains, two such species are Dolly Varden trout and Sasquatch,...
Photo Essay
Stuck in the Weeds
Though the term “bushwhacking” might initially call to mind images of grueling humps through brush-choked, trailless forest with nothing aside from a faint game trail for guidance, in this day and age, when everyone, everywhere just wants to get away...
Cutbank
River Economics
I swig juicy IPA on the tailgate before lacing up wading boots on this, my 37th birthday. I used to fish this river every night until dark, but now I’ve hardly caught a trout all summer. Five years ago, with...
Conservation
Modern Day Monkey Wrenching
Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang narrates the story of four dissident saboteurs who grow increasingly enraged by the industrial assaults on the desert Southwest throughout the 1960s and ’70s. To them, destruction took the form of development—road networks, strip...
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Millhouse in PDX
With support from Orvis, Fat Tire, and Yakima. When pro skateboarder Dave Gravette was sidelined with injuries a few years ago, he found himself in need of some new demons to chase. As a Pacific Northwest native with a wild...