The first Islamorada Fishing Film Festival, scheduled for Sunday, May 22, at Founders Park (mile marker 87 bayside) at 6:30 PM will honor Billy Pate Jr., who died April 18 at age 80. The event is a fundraiser for the...

Late to the party but with typically excellent coverage, the Financial Times offered its take on the hackle-feather-hair-accessory craze this morning. Tim Neville describes ecstatic salon owners, tiers repurposing old saddle hackle, and wives turned suddenly curious about what their...

On Sunday, May 1 at 8PM ET/PT, PBS will a air a 30-minute Nature special titled "Salmon: Running the Gauntlet." From the show description: "Nature goes beyond the ongoing debate over how to save an endangered species to expose a...

In this morning's USAToday, Jeff DeLong summarizes the state felt sole bans that are either in effect or being considered. "The spread of didymo from Maryland's Gunpowder Falls in 2009 to the Savage River last year appears clearly linked to...

We learned yesterday that Lt. Colonel Frank Bryant, who was a fighter pilot serving in the United States Air Force, was one of those killed in the airport attack in Afghanistan that also took the lives of several other servicemen....

The closing of Kaufman's -- a virtual institution in the U.S. northwest -- has a lot of loyal customers scratching their heads, but not so many industry insiders. The problem of how to keep local fly shops alive rises almost...

Yesterday Hardy USA and The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) announced the first annual Hardy Bros. Cane Casting Cup casting competition, to take place at the 29th Summerfest and Anglers Market at the CFFCM on August 6. This...

Win a trip to Deneki's Alaska West Lodge: Simms wants to know your best “If only I had my Simms GORE-TEX® shoes when…” moment. Contestants can upload a photo to the Simms Fishing Products’ Facebook page via the Contests...

While many customers knew Kaufman's was closing its doors last week, not until last night did the news appear that Lance Kaufman, the company's owner, would file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Laura Gunderson broke the story in The Oregonian:...

The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (www.fishhabitat.org) this week released their 2011 “Waters to Watch” list, a collection of 10 "rivers, streams, lakes and estuaries that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to protect, restore or enhance their current condition...

Confluence Films, the makers of "Drift" and "Rise," just announced the release of their third film, "Connect," which will be available on DVD this fall. "Connect" will be another multi-segment collection of individual stories shot around the world and includes...

Ever wonder what a "lime doser machine" (the kind they use to de-acidify mountain streams destroyed by mining waste) looks like? West Virginia just installed three of them at the headwaters of Three Fork Creek. Minnesota officials think 27-pound...

"Spiking machine" Johnny Manzo, who was introduced to fly fishing at a youth academy sponsored by the Santa Barbara Flyfishers, compares volleyball and fly fishing as two sports where athleticism will take you only so far. And he offers this...

As Achy Obejas reports for WBEZ.org, this week the U.S. Treasury Department released new guidelines detailing who can travel to Cuba. "The new rules make it easier to go for specific purposes - family visits, journalism, academic research, educational purposes,...

Ben Pierce writes in this morning's Bozeman Chronical about the puzzling decrease in the Montana's mountain whitefish populations, noting that the problem was noticed during routine trout surveys by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. "'Anecdotal data suggests whitefish on the...

Tim Flagler is back with another of his top-quality videos, this time a treat for bug lovers and fly tiers. "Meet the Hendricksons" offers the trout's-eye perspective of swimming, crawling and emerging Hendrickson nymphs....

In London's Financial Times, Charles Campion profiles chef, restaurateur and avid fly fisher, who learned about the outdoors by scrounging for food in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. "If you ask him for his best fishing tip, he replies...

As we reported yesterday, Kaufman's appears to have closed all of their operations after 42 years in business. This morning Laura Gunderson writes in The Oregonian that while many customers are saddened by the closure, others worry that money for...

Readers have reported to us this week that they were unable to reach any of the Kaufman's Streamborn stores in Washington state, and a Washington Fly Fishing post says that Kaufman's has shut their doors. Zach Matthews, who interviewed...

Phil Monahan completes his three-part answer to a reader's question about "the flies you tie on when you have no idea or evidence of what the fish are eating" with Favorite Searching Dry Flies. The experts' choices include the FC...