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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.
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Current Flow State's weekly newsletter features fly-fishing tips, stories, and koans as well as industry, environmental conservation news, and more. Feed your fly-fishing obsession with the mindful side of angling. Subscribe for inspiration every Monday.
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Blowing off the stink
Whether you're buzzing with holiday excitement or feeling that slack tide of the soul, here are ten fishy detours to transport you.
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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.
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Harness your inner salmon goddess
Miss Norway, it me. Tying night success, updates from the alchemist's cave, and ten(-ish) fishy links to start your week with trout in the tabs.
Fly Tying
Winter Term registration opens Wednesday
Sign up for Winter Term class, come tie flies on Friday, read CFS in the Financial Times, and watch two Swedish brothers bust chops while contemplating the good life.
Fly Tying
HOA Karens gatekeep eight-pound peacock bass
Don't let the park police keep you off your personal best. Fly fishing stoke from around the world in this week's newsletter
Fly Tying
Portlanders! Come tie flies on Friday (or...just hang out?)
We're hosting two tying nights in November: This coming Friday, November 7th, and again on Friday, November 21st.
Fly Tying
Tune in to our massive Craig Mathews Q&A
We hopped the Pheasant Tail Simplicity press tour train and had a chance to chat with one of its iconic co-authors, Craig Mathews, about a bevy of topics related to tying flies, the future of conservation, and much more.
Pheasant Tail Simplicity
Win a free copy of Pheasant Tail Simplicity
Announcing our Pheasant Tail fall giveaway, a member Q&A on tenkara and creative woodworking projects, tariffs bite the fly fishing industry, and a Leaders roundup of must-reads from around the fly fishing world
Fly Tying
Free-floating through fall
Fly tying meetups, welcoming a new Intro alum group, and more
Mindset
Big swell off Point No Point
Routines, purposelessness, wrist action, and our Member Drive fish reveal
Film
What do the Grateful Dead and birdwatching have in common?
Probably just this week's newsletter? From private equity Dead deals to twitcher road meals.
Mindset
Go beyond the bobber
Challenging yourself to become a better angler, a book club rundown, and upcoming events.
Fly Tying
Do you want the wire worm?
Knowing what you like, and sticking with it.
Beginner questions
Back to school: Six Tips to Start fly fishing from George Daniel
One of the greatest educators in the angling world offers a roadmap to building your skills in the sport.
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Let's hit the road
What if the secret to life's problems is just getting better at evading them?
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Seeing salmon, seeing snakes, and tying simple flies
Facial recognition, but for fish, our first buzzworm of the year, and a new PCC fly-tying class for Fall Term
Guides
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
Published Elsewhere
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
Read by the River
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.
Safety
Pain, pressure, and one hard pull: Hook removal done right
If you stick yourself rather than a fish, know how to get it out.
Salmon
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.
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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.
Fly fishing at the intersection
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
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.
Guides
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
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Nirvana on the Deschutes: The salmonfly hatch with no hookups
Deciding to fish the salmonfly hatch on the Deschutes with hookless flies
Beginner questions
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!
Tools
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.
Practice
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.
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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.
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Fish around and find out
Ten ways to make fly fishing a bigger part of your life
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No drag, just drift
Striving to get even with the flow
Conservation
Vivid indicators of life
Wading for caddis, fishing nymphs with suspenders
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Fish on film
Roll cameras, because the Fly Fishing Film Tour came to town.
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Rolling your own
If you wish to make a fly rod from scratch, you must first invent the universe.