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...

Ever wondered how a person gets to be part of a company's "pro staff?" Phil Monahan asked five fly fishing company executives what it takes to be considered for a role that can mean free gear and other perks --...

John Corrigan reviews guide Eric Stroup's new Common Sense Fly Fishing, 7 Simple Lessons to Catch More Trout (Headwater Books, January 2010, 140 pages) and says tips like the one Stroup offers about mending within a "corridor" take a lot...

Image via WikipediaIt was pretty hard to miss the story of Tom Healy's 41-pound, 7-ounce brown trout caught on hardware in Michigan's Manistee River in September. The 43.7-inch fish had a girth of 27 inches and broke an IGFA all-tackle...

Image by Kevin Pedraja via FlickrApparently winning two silver medals in Olympic Nordic Combined ski events was not enough for Johnny Spillane. Tom Ross reports in Steamboat Today that earlier this week the sometime fly fishing guide caught two 25-inch...

Mark Cockerham of Islamorada, fishing with Captain Mark Gilman, won the Backcountry Fly Championship that ended Feb. 27. Deeter: "To net or not to net?" Purple flies? Neil Waugh asks Why the heck not?...

Phycodurus eques)." width="300" height="220">Image via Wikipedia If you can take a good shot of a leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques), you can probably photograph anything underwater. At least Scott Gietler thinks so. Gietler's Underwater Photography Guide starts with fourteen "Basic...

Costa Del Mar and BTT team up to fund "Project Permit" -- four years of tagging and research. New Zealand fly fishing lodge gives fair warning to anglers who might mix with livestock. Deschutes angler to Burlington Northern and...

Cover of Money Shot (Hard Case Crime)In the new Gray's Sporting Journal, writer, consumer advocate and fly fisher Niki Christopher says about fish porn: "I don't like it, and I question the taste of people who do." Her article "The...

As we reported two years ago, the Swiss seem to have their hearts set on some sort of national statement about the suffering of animals -- including angler-caught fish. In this morning's The Guardian, Leo Hickman profiles Antoine Goetschel, the...

Expert West coast angler and fly fishing travel pioneer Frank Bertaina died last night from complications as a result of a recent heart attack. Bertaina was 66 years old. Justin Coupe, whose recent film "Rivers of a Lost Coast" included...

Image by GoBot via FlickrLast night on the NBC Nightly News Tom Brokaw narrated a special segment on the decline of British Columbia salmon stocks and the impacts of coastal salmon farming. Interestingly, he identified one salmon farmer whose operation...

"The Orvis Company’s new Hydros fly rod series was named 'Best of the Best' for 2010 by Field & Stream Magazine in their recent annual gear review issue. This marks the third time in four years an Orvis fly rod...

If you've never fished a Gurgler pattern, you're missing one of the more interesting experiences in fly fishing. Developed by the late Jack Gartside, the Gurgler has found use on both coasts of the U.S. as a striper and all-purpose...

Wisconsin enjoys “trout sprawl.” Everglades snook hard to find after the big freeze. American Rivers gets 2010 Conservation Grant from Orvis....

TR: Tell us a little about yourself. Do you have a significant other? Kids? Dogs? Boat? Where do you live? RA: No significant other, rolling single. I currently live in Winter Park FL, but am moving back west sometime...