GRAYLING, Mich. (AP) — In the decades since Robert Redford’s film adaptation of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, fly fishing has grown from a pastime of poets and hippies into a multibillion-dollar industry serving anglers from all walks of life. Now, new rules from the National Association of Trout Read more…
ITHACA, NY—In a discovery that has stunned anglers and amateur philosophers alike, scientists at Cornell University’s Laboratory for the Analysis of Metaphorical Exaggeration (LAME) have determined that fly fishing possesses no deeper meaning beyond simply catching fish. “The river as time, catch and release as a metaphor for rebirth and Read more…
ENNIS, MT—In a move that Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks officials have called the most critical negotiation since the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the American and Worldwide Fish Union (AWFU) has offered to end the seventeen-day hunger strike by Montana game fish on one condition: anglers must stop saying fishing Read more…
NEW YORK — Celebrated author Frank Anthony, known for drawing metaphorical connections between life and fly fishing, has made a bold claim in a manuscript he recently submitted to The Journal of Philosophy. Contrary to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—where the answer to the ultimate question of Read more…
MEMPHIS, TN — Ducks Unlimited, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving, restoring, and managing wetlands and associated habitats for North America’s waterfowl, has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a dozen species of ducks native to the American Northwest. The legal action—believed to be the first of its kind—seeks Read more…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 23.3% of fly anglers now fish from home—up from only 0.01% before the 2019 pandemic. “Before the pandemic, few people believed it was possible to fish from home,” said Jeb Anderson, lead author of the report and associate director Read more…
OAK PARK, IL — The joke is older than Ebay: “If anything happens to me, don’t let my wife sell my fly rods for what I told her I paid for them,” a fly angler tells his buddies over a few drinks around the campfire, implying he paid a lot Read more…
CAMERON, MT — A recent survey by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) has anglers scratching their heads. “We’ve checked, double-checked, and triple-checked our data, and everything points to the same conclusion,” said Ron Castillo, FWP Director of Special Projects. “Every trout between Quake Lake and Ennis has been hooked Read more…
Catching Schrödinger’s Trout by Ian Surkowski. MIT Press. Ian Surkowski, the Pamala Leonard Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology, has written a book that will likely change how everyone—scientist and layperson alike—thinks about fishing for trout. Although Dr. Surkowski received the prestigious Fields Medal for Read more…
STORRS, CT—A University of Connecticut Professor of Logic, Leann Jackson, is believed to be the first fly angler to fish the famed Delaware River yesterday when she should have been there today. An avid angler for much of her life, Ms. Jackson regularly makes the four-hour drive to upper New Read more…