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Tying Tuesday: Simple Winter Patterns

December 30, 2025 0 Comments

This week’s Tying Tuesday features four simple patterns for catching trout or bonefish this winter. We kick things off with a coll upside-down Baetis jig pattern from Travis at Bearded Trout’s Flies. I’m not sure why he called it a “balanced” fly, since it’s a basic jig nymph, but it will surely draw strikes from […] Read more
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Video: Winter Streamers on the Dream Stream

December 29, 2025 0 Comments

Here’s a cool video in which Richard Magill—from Golden Fly Shop in Golden, Colorado—takes us along on his day throwing streamers at the Dream Stream during a cold, December day. A short tailwater section of the South Platte River, the Dream Stream is a popular winter destination for Front Range anglers, and Richard shares his […] Read more
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Video: Curtis’s Top 10 Winter Flies

December 26, 2025 0 Comments

Winter fly fishing is a game of patience, precision, and—most importantly—having the right bugs in your box. In this video, Curtis from Fly Fish Food in Orem, Utah, is cracking open his “Cheat Code” Winter Fly Box to reveal the 10 specific patterns that have saved his season time and time again. When the water […] Read more
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Why Fly-Fishing-Only and Special Regulations Matter for Native Fish

December 24, 2025 0 Comments

A native brook trout from the North Maine Woods. Photo: Charles Hildick-Smith A couple weeks ago, we posted a story about some conventional anglers in Maine who are suing to gain access to waters that have been off-limits to them. In an essay in The Piscataquis Observer, well-known Maine fly fisher Al Raychard argues that […] Read more
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April Vokey Publishes a New Children’s Book

December 23, 2025 0 Comments

April Vokey—well-known steelhead angler, guide, and host of the Anchored Podcast—has published her first children’s book, The World Through Her Eyes. The book follows April and her daughter, Adelaide, as they explore fly fishing and nature from a child’s perspective. According to Vokey, her goal is to inspire the next generation of Read more
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Video: “Where Silence Flows” | MidCurrent

December 22, 2025 0 Comments

 When I was at Orvis, for several years I ran a holiday campaign called “Moment of Chill,” which was a series of short videos designed to help consumers pause and de-stress from the frantic pace of the holiday season and connect to the natural world. This video from Poland’s Wkra River would have been […] Read more
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