Brent Frazee writes about how TU and other conservation groups have managed to increase brown trout numbers in southeastern Minnesota and parts of the Driftless Region by more than 1,000 percent. "There are more than 600 trout streams covering 3,500...

"I first heard about the salmonfly hatch in the Black Canyon of the Yellowstone eight years ago. At that time I built fishing waders for Simms Fishing Products here in Bozeman. Back then, there were a lot of rumors that...

"My choices were obvious, if somewhat painful. I could get a second equipment bag to store the overflow — kind of a tackle-bag annex — or do the unthinkable. Maybe it was time to look through all those boxes and...

While there is reason to believe that the oil spilled from BP's broken well will disappear from sight in a decade or two, and that animals will repopulate stricken regions, scientists say the subtle effects of the disaster will appear...

Announced over the loudspeakers, the capping of BP's ruptured Gulf oil well drew cheers from hundreds of attendees on the final day of this week's iCast show in Las Vegas. "'It's been a good, positive vibe all week, but the...

If you're in the mood for knots, Tim Flagler's excellent video demonstration of how to tie a Nail Knot will have you tying (or re-tying) butt-to-fly-line connections in no time at all. Tim's is a faster version -- sometimes called...

Tom's latest podcast focuses on the several things you can do to improve catch rates when stillwater fishing for bass, panfish and other warmwater species. "Tip Number One: In one respect, stillwater fishing is easier than stream fishing because there's...

Jose Wejebe's "Spanish Fly" and other ESPN2 fishing programs will move to the Outdoor Channel in 2011. Van Egan, conservationist and companion of Roderick Haig-Brown, dies at age 84. American Museum of Fly Fishing looking for vendors for August...

In the Detroit Free Press, Eric Sharp notes that while there are "12,000 species of grasshoppers worldwide, about 600 in the United States and 60 in Michigan," fly fishers can often rely on a single favorite pattern, like the Joe's...

"The moon rose big and fat and round to send a golden-red path across the lake as far as the boat. It hovered for an age just above the horizon, before finally climbing above the haze to shed a new...

MidCurrent's photo gallery this week features two new images by Lucas Carroll, whose work captures the gestalt of fly fishing as well as any we've encountered. To see all of our featured photographers, check out MidCurrent's Fly Fishing Photography gallery....

The little-known Cat's Paw knot: an excellent choice for improving backing-to-fly-line connections. Arkansas guide John Berry has some good advice for rookie guides: forget about becoming rich, be punctual, and safety is your most important job. Bristol Bay Fly...

Mike Holliday writes for ESPN about guide Tad Burke, who besides being a guide to world record holders and tournament winners has been commodore of the Florida Keys Fishing Guides Association for eight years. It's not news to those who've...

In The New York Times, Chris Santella (author of Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die and Fifty Favorite Fly Fishing Tales) goes fishing with shark fishing guru Conway Bowman in the seas off of San Diego and discovers...

'CLEVER' is the word that leapt to mind when we first saw Tim Flagler's tricks for "trimming" fly tying thread without scissors, and for avoiding a tag end altogether. Whether you're a novice or expert tier, his short video "Tips...

This week's 30-Minute Fly Art features the Strip Leech Fly (in honor of Gary Borger's birthday). As Gary's son Jason says, "It's a pattern that I tied a lot when I was growing up, and it caught me my first...

Fly fishing people: Evercore CEO Ralph Schlosstein. First transgenic salmon may be headed to the table, and "if 60 transgenic fish bred in a population of 60,000 wild fish, the wild fish would be extinct in 40 generations," say...

Karen Ronnow writes in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that a month of soggy, cool weather did good things for rivers across the state -- including Yellowstone Park waters. "'The Yellowstone is looking great,' Andrew Puls, who works at Sweetwater Fly...

"I shuffled through the shin-deep water, angling for the 'ice cream' presentation, then paused to pull the trailing coils of stripped fly line close for a smooth shot. I yanked without looking, still focused on the redfish, now dallying at...

Tom Rosenbauer interviews new TU president and CEO Chris Wood, a veteran of the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Wood answers questions about trout stocking, TU programs for kids, and changes in TU's strategy -- particularly regarding...