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Isabel Moughamian wades into the Gallatin River for a few casts before the inevitable frozen guides thing. Small sacrifi...
01/10/2025

Isabel Moughamian wades into the Gallatin River for a few casts before the inevitable frozen guides thing. Small sacrifice for wintertime river scenes and sunrises like these. From Volume Fifteen, Issue Two.

Photos: Gloria Goñi

We know you catch small fish too!Enter your photos in the Smolt of the Month contest and you could win prizes from DECKE...
12/23/2024

We know you catch small fish too!

Enter your photos in the Smolt of the Month contest and you could win prizes from DECKED and Patagonia Fly Fish. And tiny bragging rights...

At long last The Flyfish Journal's Smolt of the Month contest is back, the classic celebration of all things piscatorially petite.

Volume Sixteen, Issue Two is alive and now shipping to subscribers, fine fly shops and retailers everywhere. This holida...
12/17/2024

Volume Sixteen, Issue Two is alive and now shipping to subscribers, fine fly shops and retailers everywhere.

This holiday season support independent, and subscribe. .

Find a link in our profile to sneak a peek, browse web exclusives, listen to Sidechannels podcast episodes, shop merch and complete your collection of back issues.

Featured inside: Seeing is believing in the Darién Gap with , ’s Guide Intimations, Fred Melton finds a Viking in Argentina , Erik Reece unhooks himself by flyfishing through recovery, and the clear intentions of photographer Chase White.

Also fails better, advocates for California’s Sáttítla National Monument, Dee Finkel on fishing partners, .timothy.j on musky madness, gets and stays dragonfly confident, Bruce Edward Litton’s tribs, cleans up the flyfishing Christmas trees and other goodies from , , , , , , , , and and more.

On the cover: A wild chinook salmon is released off the northernmost tip of Haida Gwaii. Photo: .

We know you catch small fish too! The submission window for the December Smolt of the Month contest is open, send us you...
12/13/2024

We know you catch small fish too!

The submission window for the December Smolt of the Month contest is open, send us your smolts and you could win prizes from DECKED and Patagonia Fly Fish and a stash of The Flyfish Journal goodies!

Enter here: theflyfishjournal.com/exclusive/smolt-of-the-month/

V-3 or T-11? Tough decisions on the Salmon River, ID. Whitney Schroeder  spots Nate Moody  on a riverside bouldering pro...
12/11/2024

V-3 or T-11? Tough decisions on the Salmon River, ID. Whitney Schroeder spots Nate Moody on a riverside bouldering problem, while Nhi Pham hopes to catch more than a good jug.

From Volume Fifteen, Issue One.

Photo: Ben Herndon

11/07/2024

Who wants more downstream dry fly eats, summertime boat rides and sleeping in the dirt? Yes please. Check out Kangaroo Rats, a short film with the oatmeal-averse Bridget Moran and The Flyfish Journal crew.

www.theflyfishjournal.com/review/nrs-approach-120-raft-review/

Watch the video and read a review of the NRS Fishing Approach 120 raft, which floated us into all kinds of good stuff.

Video: Colby Mesick
Edit: Spencer Arps

10/31/2024

Hey small fish enthusiasts, we’re excited to announce the Smolt of the Month for September!

The Smoltie goes to…

Brandi A and this amazingly tiny prizefighting brook trout, found deep in the Allegheny mountains.

www.theflyfishjournal.com/2024/10/smolt-of-the-month-september/

Hit the link for more on this monster, as well as a handful of awesome runners-up, and to enter your own smolts.

Many thanks to our prize sponsors and .

Go Smolts!

Volume Sixteen, Issue One exists and is now shipping to our wonderful subscribers, fine fly shops and retailers everywhe...
09/24/2024

Volume Sixteen, Issue One exists and is now shipping to our wonderful subscribers, fine fly shops and retailers everywhere.

www.theflyfishjournal.com/issue/16-1/

Support independent print with a subscription of your own. Visit our website for a sneak peek and to browse web exclusives, listen to the Sidechannels podcast and shop for merch and back issues to complete your collection.

On the cover: Dominic Lentini will row you down a river in New Hampshire and also catch the fish of the day. “It’s just luck, I swear. Back to the oars!”
Photo: Dominic Lentini

09/19/2024

Hey there fellow Smolters, incoming miniature news of the biggest kind!

theflyfishjournal.com/2024/09/smolt-of-the-month-august/

Congratulations to Michael Salomone and his brother Daniel, pictured here with the enormously tiny August Smolt of the Month!

Hit the link for more on the August contest, and to the main contest page where you can enter yours for September. Go small or go home!

Micro thanks to our prize sponsors DECKED and Patagonia Fly Fish.

Go Smolts!

“Though the guides wanted us to fish hopper-droppers and Wooly Buggers whenever the fishing slowed, we had learned our l...
09/12/2024

“Though the guides wanted us to fish hopper-droppers and Wooly Buggers whenever the fishing slowed, we had learned our lesson. No Scandinavian mumbling or apologies. You just have to say no.
“Only one dry fly for us. That’s how we roll.””

www.theflyfishjournal.com/exclusive/the-hatch-starts-in-an-hour/

Håvard Stubo recounts Jazz & Fly Fishing’s American tour from The Hatch Starts in an Hour, Jazz & Fly Fishing Does America. Full of jazz, dry fly fishing and some good old western hospitality.

Originally published in Volume Fifteen, Issue Four, now available online in full. Dive in and read more at the link above.

Photos courtesy of Jazz & Fly Fishing

Fellow smolters and tiny fish enthusiasts, a reminder that the September entry window is open!www.theflyfishjournal.com/...
09/10/2024

Fellow smolters and tiny fish enthusiasts, a reminder that the September entry window is open!

www.theflyfishjournal.com/exclusive/smolt-of-the-month/

We’re currently in the tiny judges quarters deliberating over the plethora of awesome August Smolt of the Month entries and will be announcing a winner soon!

Send us your miniature catches, the diminutive day savers, the micro moments of your smallest monsters. Go small or go home. Win prizes.

“Kyle Lerch makes a little drop in a little boat on some coveted roadless miles of Idaho river. The industrial storage t...
09/04/2024

“Kyle Lerch makes a little drop in a little boat on some coveted roadless miles of Idaho river. The industrial storage tub was present because of the need for a full-size Dutch oven and pounds of pancake batter for the trip. Surprisingly, only one rod tip was broken in the making of this adventure.”

From the Rises section of Volume Fifteen, Issue Three.

Photo and caption: Ben Herndon

S1E7 of Sidechannels is live with author and diehard conservationist Dylan Tomine, Author.www.theflyfishjournal.com/side...
08/27/2024

S1E7 of Sidechannels is live with author and diehard conservationist Dylan Tomine, Author.

www.theflyfishjournal.com/sidechannel/dylan-tomine/

In this episode, Tomine talks about the importance of family in his life and work, how and when he finds time to work on his current project—a novel, his love affair with British Columbia steelhead, and why he’s so damn frustrated with the whole carp thing.

Visit the link above, or search for Sidechannels wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t forget to like, share and subscribe.

Sidechannels is made possible with support from DECKED and Patagonia Fly Fish.

Photo: Copi Vojta

Who’s the Boss?Take the front row through the New Zealand backcountry with James Fuller in this feature from Volume Fift...
08/22/2024

Who’s the Boss?

Take the front row through the New Zealand backcountry with James Fuller in this feature from Volume Fifteen, Issue Four.

For the full print experience, track down a copy at your local fly shop or bookstore, or find a link in our profile and subscribe for home delivery because .

Photos: Robert Dotson and James Fuller.

08/21/2024

And the July Smoltie goes to…

Anthony Bendik and his son Joe’s first fish on the fly, which happened to be a monster!

www.theflyfishjournal.com/2024/08/smolt-of-the-month-july/

The August Smolt of the Month window is open through the end of the month. Go small or go home and send us your micro moments.

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