Fish Biology & Behavior for Fly-Fishing | Current Flow State Fly-Fishing

Two men, a younger and an older, at the console of a skiff boat tear-assing through the ocean are looking at each other. The older man drives the boat.

Technique

Trout ain't tarpon

Sure, the silver kings might not even be on the same angling planet as rainbows, but here are ten tarpon tips, tricks, and concepts from legend Andy Mill that can be applied to any fishing situation.

Aerial view of winding Limay Medio river through green valley with dramatic red rock cliffs at golden hour under stormy sky

Fish

This year's favorite fish

Reflecting on some favorite friends (finned and non-finned) after a great year, and ten fishtastic links to start your fly fishing week off right.

Fish

Waiting for winter (steelhead)

An earnest start in the search for a dreary season chrome lifeline, six months until TroutFest, and ten fishy links to start your week off right.

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

Environment

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

A caddis pupa with a stone case crawls on a rock while a salmon smolt looks on. OPB watermark is visible in the lower right

Environment

Vivid indicators of life

Wading for caddis, fishing nymphs with suspenders

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Learn

Rolling your own

If you wish to make a fly rod from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Environment

Ground yourself on our home planet

Establish The Big Here on the way to finding your home waters. Also, two fun fly fishing films, and registration opening for Winter term class.

Environment

So long summer, come winter's hope.

If you start summer steelheading earlier than October, does it get less bittersweet?

Dispatches

Fly fishing in the Italian Alps, Part 3: Young marble giants

Searching for slabs on the Passer river in Südtirol / Trentino Alto-Adige, part of our five-part series on fly fishing in Italy

Dispatches

Fly-Fishing in the Italian Alps, Part 2: Blowouts, high water, and mystery trout on the Swiss border

Can you help identify this strange trout variant? Salmo truta helvetica?

Technique

Streamers and triggering trout aggression

Here are two examples of videos depicting the most visible and dramatic types of eats you'll ever get: territorial brown trout going after streamers.

Technique

Dapper Don: Stalking large browns with a long rod

Inspiration on moving to a more sight-fishing, patience-oriented trout approach.