NYT reviews new book The Future of the Last Wild Food: "when it comes to the business of domesticating salmon, Greenberg writes, 'we should have chosen something else.'” Keith Barton asks whether or not we need another fly fishing...

On Fly Talk, Kirk Deeter, co-author of the new The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing, offers some short video tips on the effectiveness of tandem rigs. "The best trick of all," he says, "is to use an attractor fly--on...

Long-time Cuzan Guesthouse owner Sonja Lillvik was inspired to write The Painted Fish and Other Mayan Feasts after watching the locals prepare a fish using lipstick as decoration. "It was Lillvik's welcoming party in 1984 to the small Mexican fishing...

Ontario resident and past president of her local Forest City Flyfishing Club Deb Freele describes the attack that made world headlines last night. "Authorities are unsure what prompted Wednesday's attacks, as all of the victims had stored their food properly...

Monday a leak was detected in a Enbridge Energy Partners oil pipeline that stretches from Indiana to Ontario. Since then, over 3,000,000 liters of oil have spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. Pink driftboat will row across the West raising...

In this week's The New Yorker magazine, Elizabeth Kolbert recounts the work of authors, scientists and historians who have tracked the spectacular decline of species like cod, sharks and bluefin tuna. "M.P.A.s, smart aquaculture, and I.T.Q.s—these are all worthy proposals...

Review and trailer: Australia's "Rise" Fly Fishing Film Festival includes the works of Nick Reygaert and Mad Phil Media. Scientists begin treating runoff "filter socks" with flocculation agents to improve pollution control. Gear review: Lee Murdock field-tests Switch Vision's new...

This week's "working guide's" fly tying video by Michael Yelton features the Parachute Ant, a hi-viz version of the fly pattern than belongs in just about everyone's fly box. Ants are often blown out of trees into rivers and lake...

Patagonia just announced a 60-piece fly fishing collection for the Spring 2011 season, including the new Rio Gallegos Wader, "offering one-of-a-kind features such as removable neoprene knee pads, a unique, fully submersible welded TPU pocket and strategically placed exterior leg...

Backcountry.com blogger Rocky Thompson: It's not easy to stay constantly angry when "the outdoor industry is actually pretty good at what they do." University of Montana professor of ecology Jack A. Stanford: "the porous nature of the Bristol Bay...

Marnie Stallings of Alpine, Wyoming has agreed to pay back the $10,000 she stole from the Jackson Hole chapter of Trout Unlimited. "Prosecutor Melissa Owens said the 300 hours of community service Stallings agreed to perform might be the largest...

From now until September, many of the Northern Hemisphere's small streams and lakes will see water temperatures rise well above a trout's comfort zone. And as most of us are aware, trout caught and released in excessively warm water are...

Mark Nale writes about the twelve young anglers who will represent the U.S. in next month's FIPS-Mouche World Youth Fly Fishing competition. "'We’ve been knocking on the door several times, but we haven’t made it to the podium yet,' said...

"White, 52, often went fishing with his boyhood friends, crawling under barbed wire fences to sneak onto farmers' ponds. When the fishing trips were done, his friends would run off and play ball. But White would run to the drawing...

Recently retired Carlton College president Rob Oden writes about rainbow hatcheries, the liberal arts, and tenuous connections to the wild. "When Spanish anglers happen to catch a stocked rainbow trout, they know what to call them. Mimicking the most recognizable...

Tim Romano adds Tecnu Oak and Ivy Skin Cleanser to his list of "stuff that works." When in Yellowstone, don't throw sticks at bison: "Blair Witch Project meets Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom." Miramichi pools closed due to drought...

Ed Koch, author of Fishing the Midge and of Basic Fly Tying with Norm Shires, died recently in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. "'If it wouldn't have been for that man guiding my hands, my journey in fly fishing would never have started,'...

"I found Fishing Flies accessible, interesting and well laid-out. Malcolm Greenhalgh provides engaging text nicely illustrated with lots of colour photographs by Jason Smalley as well as well-chosen historical images and documents." Kate Wallace review's Malcolm Greenhalgh's recently released Fishing...

It’s been said of Jack Nicklaus (an avid fly angler) that he never hit a shot in practice without the same attention as a stroke played during competition. And while that level of focus may be hard to attain, it...

After the recent HPA warning to anglers about tangling with bats, fisherman treated for rabies after "kamikaze" bat chews on vest collar. Fly shop employee Stephen England followed a girl to Boston, but stayed for the stripers. Chinese copper...