Nick Parish - Current Flow State (Page 3)

A salmon swims into a viewing tank and is tracked by a faint white computer-generated line and surrounded by a bounding box with its ID, species name, and confidence score percentage

Industry

Salmon Vision: The AI revolution comes to salmon conservation

Bringing the power of artificial intelligence to bear on monitoring anadromous salmon populations for faster and more efficient counts, toward more resilient watersheds

How To

How to make your kids hate fishing

Re-writing the old tired playbook of fishing as achievement and productive time in favor of something more curious and explorational.

Learn fly fishing: CFS' complete beginner's guide to getting started

Whether you're completely new to fly fishing or looking to improve your skills, this directory of all the main articles from Current Flow State has everything you need to learn about fly fishing, and be successful on the water.

Conversations

CFSQ&A: What I Wish I'd Known Before My First Guided Float in Montana

Impressions, insights, and lessons-learned when an Intro to Fly Fishing alum takes her first guided float trip in Montana.

Three Penn Stater magazines fanned out; cover shows George Daniel in Orvis waders beside a stream, headlined "In the Flow: George Daniel leads Penn State's iconic fly-fishing program."

Weekly Update

Profiling fly fishing educator George Daniel for PennStater magazine

From inspiration and ideas to executing a feature story, it takes a team, trust, and a little bit of good timing. Sounds like a successful fishing trip, too

Books

Fix your yard, help a fish?

Join us for a discussion of backyard ecology in our Summer edition of the Read By the River book club.

Weekly Update

Pain, pressure, and one hard pull: Hook removal done right

If you stick yourself rather than a fish, know how to get it out.

A lab-grown block of salmon sits in the middle of a white plate, with curiously rounded edges.

Weekly Update

Salmon without fish: Lab-grown seafood earns FDA approval, and a spot on the menu at Portland's Kann

With recently-granted FDA approval and a summer slot on the menu at Portland hotspot Kann, lab-grown salmon is in the spotlight. I talked with Justin Kolbeck, co-founder of cultivated seafood startup Wildtype.

Weekly Update

Leaders: Wisdom never expires

It's the June edition of Leaders, our links roundup, featuring the big public lands battle, the wisdom of guides and land-watchers, gear reviews, technique primers, and more.

A sequence of skateboarder David Gravette riding a miniramp with fly-fishing waders on, and then riding to catch a fish.

Meditations

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.

CFS News

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.

A black and white book book cover is overlaid onto a backdrop of a river at sunrise. The book is titled Wisdom of the Guides and features a grizzled-looking man with a white beard looking

How To

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.

Meditations

Nirvana on the Deschutes: The salmonfly hatch with no hookups

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

How To

30 micro-lessons for the fly-curious to learn to fish

We're off and running on a marathon of Bluesky posting to kick off this year's trout season. Try one every day, and in a month you'll be an angler!

Weekly Update

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.

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How To

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.

Weekly Update

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.

CFS News

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.

A round-headed dolphin pokes its weathered head above muddy water.

Books

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

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

Meditations

Fish around and find out

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

Learn

Pillar 1: Mindset

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

Learn

Pillar 3: Tools

What stuff do I need? Less than you think.

Learn

Pillar 2: Environment

Where do fish live? How can we find them? All about watersheds, rivers, and all those who live in them.

Learn

Pillar 4: Technique

Casting, fly presentation, dry flies, nymphing, streamers and more.

Learn

Pillar 5: Conservation

How to steward these gifts for the next generation

Learn

Pillar 6: Community

Building your support network inside the sport by connecting with like-minded people.

Meditations

Take your time: Ten ways to make fly fishing a bigger part of your life

We have a motto around here: "Make fly fishing a bigger part of your life." Here are ten ways to work in more time on the water, and time spent feeling fishy.