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Hooked
Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
Open Water
When the Fishing's Slow
I hunt your grounds now, just how you taught me. But I don’t know if you’ve ever been back. I don’t know if that football of a cutthroat you caught that day was your last, or if you’ve filled a...
Conservation
Empty Ladders
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, locally called the Ballard Locks in reference to the adjacent harbor and neighborhood, are one of Seattle’s most popular tourist destinations. They were built over 100 years ago and are now listed on the National...
Essay
The End of the Season
Despite its storied history in such places as merry England and other parts of continental Europe, fishing for carp on the desert flats of the western United States has the feel of a uniquely American endeavor. Thus, photo editor Copi...
Profile
Salmon, Science and Storytelling
Charles Post remembers being lifted, as a kid, by his dad over a barbed wire fence so that he could go catch salmon. The creek behind his family’s Marin County, CA, home had been converted to a storm drain by...
Conservation
Risk Analysis
The final environmental analysis for the proposed Pebble mine in the productive Bristol Bay region of Alaska released July 23, 2020 shows more than 191 miles of streams and 4,614 acres of wetlands would be impacted if phase one of...
Interview
Implements and Approaches: The Art of Ryan Keene
If you’ve seen Ryan Keene’s artwork, you probably remember it. It’s energetic and vibrant, full of splashes of color and splatters of ink. Based in Pittsburgh, and with roots in Massachusetts and Maine, Keene paints complex and layered images of...
Cutbank
Tigers All the Way
There’s a lake high in Utah’s Uinta mountains where, I’ve heard, the trout will take just about anything you throw at them at ice-off. The lake is one of my summertime go-tos, not too far from my home in Salt...
Mystery
Down The Path Podcast
Down the Path Season 2 is sponsored by The Flyfish Journal On June 23, 2019 San Pedro, Belize, police were called to a crime scene on the waters of Ambergris Caye. After a short search, they found the body of...
Profile
Alvin Dedeaux
This article first appeared in volume eleven, issue three of The Flyfish Journal. “With a name like Erik Ogershok, you have to be a metal singer,” Alvin Dedeaux says just before he drops a streamer into the water. “I mean...
Cutbank
THE STRING SCATTERS
This article first appeared in volume eleven, issue three of The Flyfish Journal. It’s May in the Keys, sunny and barely blowing. And they’re swimming. We’re on the ocean side and getting shots all day. We can see them coming...
Cutbank
On Uncertainty
When Washington state’s Governor, Jay Inslee, ordered non-essential business in the state closed on March 23, there was a significant amount of confusion as to what actually constituted “essential.” For the first couple days after the order, many fishing guides...
Reads
Essential Jim Harrison – A Reading List
I could read nothing but Jim Harrison for the rest of my life and not give it a second thought. For a lover of dogs, food, fishing and spending great deals of time wandering in the woods, Harrison’s prolific bibliography...