Make fly-fishing a bigger part of your life.

Skate or Fly: How two outsider sports foster the same creative flow state

From boardslides to redsides, meet a few notable skaters who fly-fish, and identify the big areas the sports have in common, built around getting into the flow state.

TroutFest 2025, debriefed: We came, we saw, we fished...we won the trivia contest!

Here's what went down at the first-ever Maupin Meetup during the Deschutes River Alliance's TroutFest.

Tap into the Wisdom of the Guides

Gleaning advice for taking your first guided fly-fishing trip from legendary fly-fishing guides and a tome that's stood the test of time

Nirvana on the Deschutes: The salmonfly hatch with no hookups

Deciding to fish the salmonfly hatch on the Deschutes with hookless flies

30 micro-lessons to amp up your fly-fishing addiction

We're off and running on a marathon of Bluesky posting to kick off this year's trout season.

Rigged for spring

it's the May edition of Leaders, our links roundup, featuring a bevy of great PNW events, primers on fish handling, and an intro to Trout Spey.

One of the best ways to improve your fly-fishing: Download our free fishing log template

All the theory, workflows, and downloadable tools you need to build one of the most important habits of a fly angler.

Floods, anarchy, and river gods

The season kicks off with a rush of fun, with the TroutFest agenda dropping, a little soliloquy, a report from our book club, and my first significant fish of the new season.

TroutFest 2025: The schedule drops

We're just over a month away from TroutFest 2025 in Maupin, OR, and the Deschutes River Alliance has released the first schedule of events.

Read By the River: James C. Scott's In Praise of Floods

Saving dolphins, propitiating river spirits, and the future of history

Fish around and find out

Ten ways to make fly-fishing a bigger part of your life

Pillar 1: Mindset

Start here. Why do we fish? How do we venture boldly into the outdoors?