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Updates and ramblings from our current film project on the proposed Pebble Mine told through the voices of commercial, subsistence and sport fishermen of Bristol Bay, Alaska
  • Sage, Redington, & Rio’s “A Day for Bristol Bay”

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    Sage, Redington and Rio step up big for Bristol Bay.

    Sage, Redington and Rio have committed a day of production from their Bainbridge factory to help support our film Red Gold (which is nearing completion by the way) and TU AK’s continued grassroot efforts to combat the proposed Pebble Mine. The triumvirate is not messing around either. We are talking a donation in upwards of $100,000 and you can be a part of it too.

    Here is the deal. By designating “A day for Bristol Bay” Sage in setting...

Drake Magazine - Bie's Blog Jam
Drake Magazine - Bie's Blog Jam
  • Why the Yucatan Rules
    One of the most common saltwater fishing questions that I get asked or that appears on The Drake message board is some variation of, I have to go to some stupid/gay/waste-of-time/soon-to-be-divorced-anyway wedding/business conference/family reunion down in Cancun. I'm
  • NYS DEC - Asleep, Nutless or In The Tank?

    From ProPublica via the Albany Times Union comes news of another fresh hell. Seeing visions of dollar signs due to the increased profitability of drilling for difficult-to-reach deposits of natural gas, the NYS legislature is attempting to “streamline” the permitting process to fill their coffers.

    Mad As Hell

    Of interest are leases to the Marcellus Shale, 9,000 feet down and apparently rich in natural gas. But the extraction involves injecting huge amounts of water into the ground. Water that must be drawn from somewhere, likely from many small water sources, and New...

Drake Magazine - All Blogs
Drake Magazine - All Blogs
  • Why the Yucatan Rules
    One of the most common saltwater fishing questions that I get asked or that appears on The Drake message board is some variation of, I have to go to some stupid/gay/waste-of-time/soon-to-be-divorced-anyway wedding/business conference/family reunion down in Cancun. I'm
Drake Magazine - Hammer Time
Drake Magazine - Hammer Time
  • Excuses
    For those sad souls who can't get the angling monkey off their backs and have chosen to live well above the seasonal freezing line, winter can easily slide into a cornucopia spilling over with bountiful excuses. Much like the traveling charlatan preacher for whom the mind is willing but the flesh is weak - we want to fish, but all that whiteness, especially when it's traveling horizontally past the window, is a daunting thing.

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Because we all live downstream
  • Rogue Angels

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    Kalamity K8's Rogue Angel site adds a Y chromosome to the X chromosome dominated world of fly fishing content. If the picture of K8 working the beat in Alaska does not get you to click through to the site maybe this shot of a nice rainbow will do the trick. LINK

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  • MidCurrent Interviews Guy de la Valdene
    GUY DE LA VALDENE is a mystery to most fly fishers. If his name is known widely, it is because he hung out with Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Richard Brautigan, Russell Chatham and Jimmy Buffet in Key West in the...
"The natural state of the human spirit is ecstatic wonder. We should not settle for less." - NC motto
RSS: The Contemplative Angler - "The natural state of the human spirit is ecstatic wonder. We should not settle for less." - NC motto
  • Better Fishing Through Global Chaos

    I wish to state now - well in advance - that I am not to blame for the "Great Blackouts of 2012!" I am simply offering insights which could transform a possible future of sitting quietly in your basement, enjoying a can of cold beans in the dark -- into some of the superb fishing opportunities that only global chaos and destruction provide!




    As you are probably aware, the Solar Storms of 2012 will be the most impressive since 1958 - when the Aurora Borealis was seen in Mexico [1]! However, unlike 1958,...

Fly Fishing the Upper Sacramento River : Tom Chandler's Fly Fishing Life : Fly Rods are the Measure of Life
  • Grand Lake Stream Fishing Day (And a Guide Secret Revealed)

    It’s been a quiet day. The L&T and I gathered up Todd - family member and fly fisher - and ran uplake for a couple hours of smallmouth fishing.

    Grand Lake canoe, and water

    We were interested in little more than knocking some of the dust off the gear, and - just like the guides suggested - we caught little smallmouth bass pretty much everywhere we went.

    It wasn’t high drama, but it was damned fun.

    Later, I snorkled around the dock and boathouse, shadowed by an 11″ smallmouth who clearly didn’t want any pasty white mammal...

  • The Complete Angler - Final Chapter

    James Prosek     (artist/writer), Fritz Mitchell (producer/editor) and Peter Franchella (cinematographer) produced a Peabody Award winning film documenting Prosek’s travels in the footsteps of the 17th century English writer, Izaak Walton.

    Way Upstream now brings you Part 7 of the mini-series - The Complete Angler. In this Final Chapter - James visits Izaak Walton's grave in a chapel in Winchester Cathedral, and discusses the last years of his life. Then he sings a song in a meadow by the river and returns to the fishing at the pond near his home in Connecticut.

    Way Upstream...
  • Sunfish


    April 12 & 13, Seep Lakes, WA.
    The 'gills crowded the shallow coves and took small poppers with abandon.
    I fished for bass too, catching most of them on a bunny worm and - late in the day - two more on a deer hair bug.
Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Obsession
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  • Habitat, Habitat, Habitat

    Remember that movie, “Beetlejuice”, where the girl says his name three times, and he suddenly appears? Replace the word beetlejuice with habitat.

    Come on, say it with me.

    habitat, habitat, habitat

    No, no, no, you’re not saying it right. It won’t work if you’re not really committed, say it with gusto!

    HABITAT, HABITAT, HABITAT

    This is what happens when you focus on habitat improvement and restoration, instead of the hatchery truck. The fish above was one of many recorded during an electro-fishing survey of two stretches of the Batten Kill, where habitat restoration...

  • wherein we announce thee mutha of all announcements



    Thee Everlovin' And Totally 169% Badasshooked Whitey Kollecktive is proud to announce it's participation in www.busterwantstofish.com.

    We would not have participated if'n we were not going into bidness with the likes of the genius types from flytimes, voluntary beatdown, the water swatters, bruce "jenner" smitherhammer, brookiewookie and ed the design guy.

    anyway, yr more than welcome and as always, we thank ya kindly....
Alistair Stewart's piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland
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  • Small Stream Jim

    Had an enjoyable few hours with Jim from palewatery on Sunday. I only managed to hit the small stream for a few hours and it just so happened that Jim and his pal decided to smack the same one - here is a short video of the man in action.

    As you can see the, the stream we were fishing was a peaty color, the other chap we were with caught a fair few trout but Jim and I basically chatted our way up the stream as you do when you meet and fish with someone you kinda...

All sorts of nonsense and punditry from the world of fly fishing.
Ozarks Fly Anglers
  • Roubidoux
    Well, I finally fished Roubidoux Creek (or river...it's like the Finley...nobody can agree on whether it is a creek or river) today. Talk about your virtual cornicopea of fish! LOL I caught...

    A Fresh look at fly fishing and the inside scoop on fishing the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas.

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