Escape of Nearly 250,000 Steelhead Smolts from Washington Hatchery Will Hamper Stockings
Close to 250,000 steelhead smolts destined for stocking in Washington rivers this spring instead made an early getaway. The juvenile fish escaped from the...
Florida Water-Policy Bill Could Bring More Algae Blooms and Fish Kills
Florida fishing captains and Everglades advocates say a bill before the state Legislature could make it harder to prevent the algae blooms that have...
My Home Waters: An Angler Finds Escape and Solace on a Trout River
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I was ready to go home. I’d been fishing for a couple of hours and had nothing to show for it. No follows. No...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Blowtorch
If Devin Olsen puts a fly in his Top 5, you would be well advised to do the same. Obsessed with fly-fishing since his...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Pat’s Rubber Legs
In the Northeast, the first sign of late-winter life on most of our trout streams is the sight of little black stoneflies, often crawling...
F&S Classics: How to Retire in the Bahamas Without Really Trying
Tom Ferris, a former Hollywood P.R. type who abandoned showbiz for real estate, phoned late one night and said he had a scoop. “You’ve...
The Season: Louisiana Redfish Rodeo
“The Season” is a new online column from F&S editor-at-large T. Edward Nickens. You can also follow Nickens’s adventures on Instagram @enickens. And you can read about his adventures in...
F&S Fly of the Week: The Chaos Hopper
Sure, it’s springtime, and we trout addicts are mostly focused on aquatic insects. But before you can say “terrestrial,” it will be high summer,...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Clouser Deep Minnow
We’ve begun hearing welcome reports of striped bass being caught in coastal rivers in the Northeast. The first fly that many striper addicts will...
F&S Fly of the Week: The Bucktail Deceiver
The Bucktail Deceiver is my go-to fly for the beaches and inlets of the Atlantic coast. It’s a good general imitation of a menhaden,...
