In this week's fly tying video, Michael Yelton shows how to tie a popular terrestrial pattern, the Foam Back Beetle. Yelton demonstrates how to tie a hi-viz version and describes it as a "tasty little morsel" -- something trout aren't...

The "nothing earthshaking" opinions on fly rod tech will probably go away with the introduction of three new rods this year, says Field & Stream's Kirk Deeter. Deeter talks about three upcoming (or recently introduced, the case of St. Croix)...

This coming Saturday, the late outdoor writer and conservationist Charlie Meyers will be honored when the land surrounding Colorado's famed "Dream Stream" section of the South Platte will be renamed the Charlie Meyers State Wildlife Area. In this morning's Denver...

Filled with helium and constructed of hi-tech polymers, the Airfish moves with artificial muscles stimulated via electrodes. "'We needed to mimic a fish that's a versatile swimmer, not one that's a specialist in fast acceleration or high maneuverability,' says [Swiss...

Peter Scott was bound for the fly fishing World Championships in Poland Thursday when police pulled him aside after mistaking him for a drug dealer. Once police realized their mistake, he had missed his flight. "The 58-year-old Auckland father, a...

Image via WikipediaConservation organization American Rivers has just released their list of the ten most endangered rivers in the U.S. They name Upper Delaware River, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, West Virginia's Gauley River, North Carolina's Little River, Iowa's Cedar...

The subject of Jason Borger and Jeff Kennedy's 30-Minute Fly art this week -- suggested to Kennedy by fly tying and spey casting master Marty Howard -- is the Undertaker, a classic salmon and steelhead fly....

On May 29 at around 9:13 PM NOAA's radar registered a billion or two tiny dots over and around La Crosse, Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River. The sensitive scanner (no doubt operated by a fly fishing fanatic) shows in glorious...

As we reported in April, Vermont had been moving a ban on felt soles quickly through the state legislature. Yesterday we learned that on May 29 Vermont Governor Jim Douglas signed H.488 into law, banning the use of felt-soled boots...

Many of us have been caught in this situation: We're on a business trip or vacation, and some crystal-clear trout stream meanders into view. We might even have gear handy or know where to borrow some. But we don't have...

Image via WikipediaThe best Key West bonefishing is not at the end of the Boca Chica runway, as was suggested in the 1975 movie "Ninety-Two in the Shade" (that honor would go to the backcountry and western flats, where bonefish...

"Fly-fishers who commit themselves to monitoring the timing of this highly synchronized ecological event can usually expect to enjoy some of the hottest, most blistering fly-fishing that Southeast Alaska has to offer." Rich Culver writes about spring fry fishing and...

Spey Nation III happens June 19 in Pineville, NY.New Brunswick Salmon Council wants Miramichi River restricted to catch-and-release only. Questions to ask yourself before matching the hatch. Men in waders: New Zealand Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds asks customers for another...

Image via WikipediaA fly rod will outdo most other gear when the quarry is sunfish, says Eric Sharp in the Detroit Free Press. "If you don't draw a strike in 10-20 seconds, give the fly a twitch every few seconds....

This morning True/Slant columnist (and contributor to MidCurrent's last two April Fool's capers) Scott Bowen offers his hilarious take on animal-and-water paranoia, remarking that it wasn't so long ago that "flesh-ripping" was reported to be a common occurrence in U.S....

Alan Cowell writes for France Today about a recent trip to the elegant Manoir de Malvoisine and the chalk streams of Normandy. "Rising over the fabled River Andelle--in another era a haunt of Ernest Hemingway and hotelier Charles Ritz--the Manoir...

Image by MrClean1982 via Flickr"Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska - states with typically high numbers of grasshoppers due to the large expanses of open range land there - are already seeing more than eight grasshoppers per square yard. That's like walking...

Sean Kerrick is the newest photographer to join MidCurrent's Fly Fishing Photography gallery. Kerrick is a freelance photographer who lives on Utah's Provo River and says "If I die with a camera in my hands, on a river or a...

As BP hints that August's relief wells are the last, best hope for limiting the amount of oil gushing from its broken project, London's Daily Mail reports that more than 26,000 claims by Gulf Coast guides and commercial fisherman have...

Stephen Regenold says the Zippo Emergency Fire Starter ($19.95) with spark-ignited wax tinder sticks is a worthly contender in the when-all-else-fails category. But also check out the Soto Pocket Torch, at the same price, which just won a Backpacker...