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Fly Fishing

Gone bonefishing

Where were you last Super Bowl Sunday? I was wading across a tropical tidal flat in the Caribbean Sea, up to my knees in warm, sparkling clear saltwat... Read Now

One Honkin' Big Brown

A little after 10 p.m. one night last March, I was hosing down my waders outside the drying room at Terra del Fuego’s elegant Maria Behety Lodge when ... Read Now

The flesh-eating rainbows of Alaska

Many places make the dubious claim of being the “sport-fishing capital” of this or that species of game fish, but for trophy rainbow trout there’s an ... Read Now

The aquatic attack dogs of the Canadian far north

Around the second week in June, schools of northern pike suddenly appear in the sandy-bottom shallows of tea-colored Wollaston Lake in northeastern Sa... Read Now

A thousand miles from nowhere

Looking for an extreme fishing adventure? Try this: fly to Paris, then on to Mahe, Seychelles. You’re now 1,000 miles off the coast of Kenya. Next, ta... Read Now

Great summer trout fishing in February

A quarter mile from the Estancia del Zorro–the ranch of the fox–flows a stream my friend Brian O’Keefe calls the best spring creek he has ever fished.... Read Now

Stalking New Zealand’s huge trout

European brown trout, introduced to the crystalline waters of New Zealand in 1868, have thrived in this country, which is roughly the size of Californ... Read Now

Up a lazy river

Three thousand kilometers from tidewater, a porpoise surfaces. Then a foot-long skinny slasher of a fish grabs the streamer fly you strip through wate... Read Now

Reeling in salmon on Alaska’s stunning ‘lost coast’

During the golden weeks of late September and early October, few places offer a greater fly-fishing spectacle than the short tidal rivers on the edge ... Read Now

Where the “little trout” aren’t little

You’ll find brook trout in countless alder-lined beaver bogs and tumbling canopy-forest brooks along the spine of the Appalachians, throughout the New... Read Now