Fly Fishing Fashion

Just in time for warm weather fishing conditions, Rep Your Water has release a re-designed line of sun shirts. We did a full redesign on our Sun Shirts and Hoodies for this year. We kept to the soft, supple feel but lightened them up and brought in a new color palate. Featuring a reproduction of a pen and ink original by our designer Garrison Doctor, this one is a perfect choice for all of your high country adventures this summer.

Wire is a common element of a nymph pattern. Whether in the form of ribbing or full body segments, this material adds the important elements of segmentation, durability and weight,” writes Bob Reece. Yet, because of its fairly rigid nature, it can be a difficult material to work with. Learn tips and tricks for tying with wire in this article via Gink & Gasoline.

In one of his recent essays published in Gray’s Sporting Journal, John Gierach writes about fly fishing for muskie in Wisconsin. In some ways muskie fishing reminds me of Spey casting for steelhead or Atlantic salmon,” he explains. It’s not so elegant and lacks the stodgy sense of tradition, but it does involve the same kind of attentive repetition that demands pacing yourself, sort of like digging a long line of identical postholes. Read more here.

In this episode of the Wet Fly Swing podcast, host Dave Stewart talks with Joe Brooks, producer of the recent documentary about the legendary angler of the same name, Joe Brooks, who was his grandfather ’s brother. We find out how the late great Joe Brooks fell from grace to live on the streets but pulled himself out of the gutter to become one of the most influential fly fisherman in history.”

This year’s report spotlights the threat that climate change poses to rivers, clean water supplies, public safety and communities nationwide. This year’s report spotlights the threat that climate change poses to rivers, clean water supplies, public safety and communities nationwide. From water scarcity on New Mexico’s Gila River, named the #1 Most Endangered River in the country, to sea-level rise on the Hudson and flooding on the Upper Mississippi, America’s The National Climate Assessment released in 2018 states, “Water quality and water supply reliability are jeopardized by climate change in a variety of ways that affect ecosystems and livelihoods…

A two-part article in the Winter and Spring 2019 issues of The American Fly Fisher, the journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, explores the world’s oldest known artificial flies. The American Fly Fisher, the journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, has published a thorough analysis of the world’s oldest known artificial flies, dating from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Herd, the leading British fly-fishing historian, and Schullery, former director of the museum, describe and analyze the unique collection of historic trout and salmon flies that include the oldest known flies anywhere, dating from the late 1700s. The flies eventually came into the hands of Irish fly-fishing writer John Richard Harris, a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and author of the milestone An Angler’s Entomology (1952), which featured among its many illustrations a photograph of a few of these very flies.

A GoFundMe campaign has been created to support the craft and installation of a handcrafted, custom bench along Steamboat Creek in tribute to Frank and Jeanne Moore, and to celebrate and commemorate the recent successful passage of the public lands bill that includes The Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary. The bench will “honor the decades that Frank and Jeanne have dedicated in advocacy and stewardship for the North Umpqua, providing a natural sanctuary for wildlife as well as people. Learn more about this project at the fundraising site.

Dave Sweet has spent over a decade helping to bring the Yellowstone cutthroat trout back from the brink of extinction. In this film, along with his daughter, Diana, a fisheries biologist, he travels “into the infamous Thorofare area of Yellowstone, the most remote wilderness in the lower 48, to see if his efforts have been successful and if the trout has returned to its native spawning runs. Via KGB Productions.

In the same vein of conviction, entertainment and taking the art of having fun very seriously as the iconic Dally’s Streamer Lovefest comes the All Species Odyssey. The event is also going to push many competitors out of their tailwater comfort zones, from the familiar waters of the White River and Norfork Tailwater, onto the big lakes of Bull Shoals and Norfork, tributaries like Crooked Creek and the Buffalo, smaller AGFC ponds and perhaps watersheds further afield. Our passion for spreading the word for Arkansas’s fly rod riches has been supported by out sponsors Sage, Orvis, Simms, Yeti, Sweetwater Brewing Co, Hardy, Temple Fork Outfitters, Airflo Lines, Sightline Provisions, Fishpond Montana Fly Co. To emphasize our view that committing to taking on the Odyssey is as much the point as winning we have some strong prizes for simply entering the event and supporting our goal of spreading the love of fly fishing for all species.

When you make a bad cast, “Frustration can often tempt us to rip a cast that lands far shy of its target off the water for a prompt recast,” writes Chris Hunt, “but doing so can easily and often put down not just the individual fish you may have been targeting—but any others that may be lurking beneath the surface as well. When that happens, it won’t matter how good your next cast is. Read more on Hunt’s advice for fishing a bad cast, via Hatch Magazine.