Image via WikipediaWouldn't it be a blast if someone came up with a truly different idea in fly rod design? Dr. Chris Underwood has taken his experience in designing prosthetic hearts and artificial blood vessels and applied it to a...

64-year-old Ira Braitsch died Sunday when his boat capsized on an unusually rough Chattahoochee River in Georgia. Family and friends say that Braitsch was told that their would be no release from Buford Dam. But the Army Corp of Engineers...

Smokey Mountains guide Ian Rutter explains why high-stick nymphing in close proximity to fish is such an effective technique, then demonstrates various the various rigs and tweaks he uses to increase hook-ups on mountain streams....

Waynesboro, VA wants $5 million for new hatchery and Center for Coldwaters Restoration. Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree and fanatic fly fisher Arnall Patz dies at 89. Jason Borger, Maggie Merriman, Ed Engle, Ernie Gulley, Steve Abel and Gary...

Despite a groundswell of opposition from anglers' groups and stream access rights advocates, the Utah legislature passed House Bill 141 on Wednesday, deciding in favor of private property owners who felt that public easements diminished their property values. You can...

University of Rhode Island aquaculture expert Terry Bradley has figured out how to block myostatin production in rainbow trout, producing what Popular Science writer Jerry Hsu describes as "six-pack abs and burly shoulders." "If the transgenic trout meet FDA approval,...

Image by Paraflyer via Flickr"The 'Dream Stream' portion of the South Platte River connecting Elevenmile and Spinney Mountain reservoirs will become the Charlie Meyers State Wildlife Area on May 1. The change was unanimously approved by the Colorado Wildlife Commission...

In this week's new MidCurrent fly tying video, Michael Yelton ties a Partridge Orange (aka Orange Partridge), a fly pattern that has not only stood the test of time but has gained new popularity with the resurgence in wet fly...

The force of the water knocked down a 230-pound firefighter coming to his rescue, but fly fisher David Kelley refused to part ways with his new custom trout rod -- after all, he just bought it. "When Cipollo, a member...

L.L. Bean's Spring Fishing Weekend, March 19-21, will feature Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Stu Apte, Mark Sosin, Tim Rajeff, Bob Popovics, Dave Klausmeyer and others. Nassau guides claim "environmental terrorism" by resort developer. Government responds. Jason Borger recounts role...

I sat down with the folks from the Gateway Hook Company this week to see first-hand whether their patented "easy on/easy off" hook-eye made sense. Gateway, which has been field-testing their design for several years now, has come up with...

"I'm a dam-buster," Yvon Chouinard says in the American Express commercial that first appeared during this week's Grammy Awards. "When you take out a dam, that's a real victory -- I mean a concrete victory, so to speak.... To do...

It strikes a thinking person as a bit like forecasting a ban on baseball, apple pie, and daytime naps, but a couple of days ago ESPN.com published a story that claimed the Obama administration would soon ban all fishing, commercial...

Image via Wikipedia"While the sound may get on the nerves of city dwellers, for trout anglers it is a sweet melody because they know that if they stalk the banks of the Tongariro River where it slows and spreads before...

Merwin: Are fishing books less valuable than they used to be? Popular Mechanics calls kayaks the newest Nantucket sleigh. Last chance for bull trout? London Telegraph: British rivers could power 850,000 homes... but at what cost?...

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAccording to actress Amber Heard's Web site (believe it or not, it's called "Adoring Amber Heard"), "The River Why," the new Matthew Leuwyler movie based on the David James Duncan novel, will premiere at the...

MidCurrent reader Collin Ross sent in several pictures last week as proof, perhaps, that no matter where you go in south Florida, your chances of seeing a snake over ten feet are improving daily. Besides this beast in Big...

Field and Stream's Kirk Deeter says the Tie-Fast Knot Tyer is one tool that he can't live without: "I have three of them. One I keep stuffed at the bottom of a vest pocket, in case my leader breaks and...

Brett Fitzgerald of the Snook Foundation narrates this informative short video about the effects of Florida's "nuclear winter" on snook populations. "The Christmas Eve freeze of 1989 killed 500,000 snook statewide. In 1977, the year that it snowed in the...

Calgary Sun photojournalist Mike Drew grabs a fly rod but spends his time recording the beginning of snow melt on the Bow River, a great big-fish river that is usually in full swing with baetis and midges by the end...