Page 3 - Culture

Nick Moore won the recent British Fly Casting Club's 5-weight distance contest while using House of Fly's Ballistic 57 fly line. His record-breaking cast glided 139' 6".

Doomscrolling on social media can diminish our own experiences, but only if we allow it to. Take time, at least every once in a while, to consider how fortunate each of us has been in our angling careers.

4:30am, hours after leaving the Costa Sunglasses party we found ourselves at The Black Pearl in Mosquito Lagoon. This is the spot to find big redfish in clear water, and it's about as close to a tropical redfish trip as you can find anywhere in the world. We visit Titusville, Florida and Captain Scott Maccalla.

If you’re planning to fish British Columbia’s southern interior anytime soon you’ll appreciate this piece of advice: get a bigger net.

The Fly Project team takes on Montana's Clark Fork River and comes out in spades with some hefty smallmouth bass.

The Clocks have completed their spring forward. Cold snaps are getting shorter. Chinook winds have carved away the ice and snow. Warm days are sprinkled into the coming weeks. It is ice out time again, and it’s hard to pass up the springtime urge to tangle with some large, hungry trout.

The Chubby Chernobyl is synonymous with western stonefly hatches, especially the early season skwala emergence, which makes its annual appearance on numerous western rivers in March, April and May.

Basically, you have to want a permit to catch one, because not catching fish, as we all know (unless you fish with DuPont Specials, a.k.a. dynamite), is no fun at all. When you’re fishing permit, there’s a whole lot of waiting and very little catching. One eat a week would be acceptable. Three or four hookups means you’re pretty darn good at your craft.

A historical guide to Spokane's two favorite cutthroat trout streams. They're in another state.

It's hard to imagine going to Lincoln County's Coffeepot Lake and somehow missing the potpourri of sights, sounds, smells and impressions that gives this place its undeniable character. Part of that is the way the big, lusty rainbows wallop a streamer, reminiscent of a terrier destroying a stuffed toy. If you listen, there is much more to hear than just shrieking fly reels.

To the uninitiated, fly fishing is not commonly associated with competition, or for the targeting carp for that matter. However, there is such a competition for this quarry in the flats of Eastern Washington. Every Summer, a clandestine group of anglers diverge onto an unnamed lake for a two-day tournament: The Schmoots Clooper.

To the uninitiated, fly fishing is not commonly associated with competition, or for the targeting carp for that matter. However, there is such a competition for this quarry in the flats of Eastern Washington. Every Summer, a clandestine group of anglers diverge onto an unnamed lake for a two-day tournament: The Schmoots Clooper.