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…
JACKSON, WY—Wyoming angler Wyatt Mitchell recently landed a fish most anglers only dream about. “I knew this fish was special, but I had no idea how special until I took it to Jackson’s Big R Ranch & Home store to have it measured and weighed,” Mr. Mitchell said during an Read more…
CONCORD, MA—Philosopher-naturalist David Henry Thoreau has long inspired anglers with assorted versions of the misattributed mantra: Many go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after. But a Ph.D. student at Southeastern New Hampshire University, Arthur Bigastrio, recently discovered a series of Thoreau’s never-before-seen Read more…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—For the first time in the nearly ninety-year history of Galloup polling, Americans prefer a good day at work to a bad day of fishing. Thirty-nine percent of U.S. adults selected a good day at work, thirty-three percent chose a bad day of fishing, while the remaining twenty-eight percent Read more…