NEW YORK—A powerful group of fly-fishing anglers, The Progressive Anglers for Linguistic Equity (PALE), has gotten recent attention for demanding the fly-fishing community stop appropriating Latin names for flies. “The Latin language has a rich and storied history in medicine and law and should not be used for the casual Read more…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to the sweeping bill H.R. 2024, The Truth in Public Discourse and Actions Act, the Department of Justice has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to launch a surprising crusade against what they deem one of the nation’s oldest rackets of misinformation and deception: fly Read more…
According to legend and lore (the ancient predecessors of science), the rising of the Dog Star Sirius shepherds forward a period of mad dogs, heat, drought, misery, fatigue, misfortune, and calamity. No one is safe, not even those who prowl more than forty-seven degrees above the equator. But even if Read more…
With apologies to John Mellencamp. Well, I was born in a small stream And I can breathe in a small stream Gonna die in a small stream And that’s probably where they’ll bury me
Written by Tim Schulz.Illustrations by Bob White. Foreword by Jerry Dennis. A Cast Away in Montana is the captivating story of a passionate angler’s first trip to Montana. Through Tim Schulz’s humorous, insightful, and reflective storytelling, readers not only discover the thrill of pursuing elusive fish in stunning landscapes but Read more…
Lee Wulff famously said, “A gamefish is too valuable to be caught only once.” Reasonable people can—and do—debate the scope of this credo, and I suspect Lee did too. But if that script was written for a particular scene, it was likely written for one like this.
“What I have asked you to imagine is the story of Michigan’s grayling. I often fish the Otter River, where Walter Erickson caught the last of these fish in 1934. There are still more deer than people along this river and more otters than boats. But the white pine and Read more…
Many people mistakenly believe the X Caddis is a pattern invented by Craig Mathews and John Juracek. Instead, Craig’s wife, Jackie, devised the idea and tied the first pattern for Craig and John while working on something to imitate an emerging and impaired caddisfly stuck in its pupal shuck. “Why Read more…
Spend enough time in the wild, and sooner or later, you’ll get a front-row seat in the grand theater of life and death. In one scene, a deer’s skull, spine, and matted hair lie still in a Michigan forest—decaying remnants of an animal that once wished to live, reminding anyone Read more…
Want to catch a smallmouth bass that is so strong you might hook it in Wisconsin and land it in Michigan? Want to see a fish sip your popper from the surface, then fight like a spurred Brahma bull? Want to spend a day on the water with a knowledgeable Read more…