What a fish!…

Wow… what else can you say. An absolute tank of a fish and an epic fight for BH

📷 by BH

#flyfishing #flytying

An epic Brown Drake hatch caught on film This week's update has us ready for spring with a post-Springsteen glow, featuring a new class offering in Oregon and an epic film of a Brown Drake hatch.

A particularly good edition of the Weekly Update just landed, if I do say so myself. Check it out, and subscribe if you need more #flyfishing in your life. www.currentflowstate.com/emerging-int...

Oops, sorry, we've been a little pre-occupied...Alan has been busy with his flies!
#wildflyfishinginthekaroo #flyfishing #flytying #flytyingjunkie

carp, queen of rivers
focused on muddy bottoms
just ignores my fly

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #carp #fishing #flyfishing

An ide in the net.

Smoked bream.

Many Cyprinidae species are very abundant. Fishing them for sustenance removes excess nutrients from the ecosystem. Sometimes they eat insects from the surface, just like grayling and trout. Tasty when smoked.

These will be the winners when the waters warm.

#FlyFishing

(Possible) Dream Job Alert: Cortland Line Is Hiring In addition to real estate listings, I also look at job boards for "dream jobs" that involve fly fishing. My job can be stressful, but I like it. However, it's unfortunately far away from trout water. Indeed had a job posting that popped up over the weekend that wasn't a guide job, rather a supply chain listing for Cortland Line…

(Possible) Dream Job Alert: Cortland Line Is Hiring
#flyfishing #newyork #dreamjob

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Demon's Game - The Oni School of Tenkara Fly Fishing with Rob Worthing
Episode 33: Level Line Podcast
#tenkara #flyfishing #podcast

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Bugs
Trouts
Big giddamn pile burn

I finally got to float fish the Big Hole! It was fantastic! #flyfishing #montana

A creek flows past a bank just beginning to turn green on a warm early spring day. The sky is mostly cloudy, and the still-bare trees along the bank reflect softly on the water.

#SilentSunday

Darby Creek, PA

I know there are many beautiful creeks for fly fishing, but this one is the most relaxing for me 😊

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Trout #Spring #Photography

Reading The Water: Form and Content in Fishing and Poetry Not long ago I hiked down a gameland trail into a gorge thick with hemlock and rhododendron to look for a small creek named Devil’s Hole. The name comes from the way the creek emerges through rocks…

Trout season opened this weekend. I didn't go, but here's an essay on #flyfishing and #poetry. uniambic.com/2025/11/08/r...

Big Rods and Silver Fish Jump like a Willy's in Four Wheel Drive

My latest on Substack
Big Rods and Silver Fish
Just reminiscing abut times gone by, pretty fish, big rods, colorful flies and the like. Got some pretty pictures in there, though.

#flyfishing #AtlanticSalmon #Steelhead #SpeyCasting #flytying
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Every angler, hunter, outdoorsman, hiker and conservationist who voted for Trump owns this. The destruction of public lands and with it, the access to wildlands that is our birthright. #flyfishing

A clear river bends through a tight, forested corridor, its surface shifting from shallow, sunlit ripples in the foreground to a deeper, darker pool beneath a rock wall. The near bank is strewn with rounded, gray and tan boulders—some the size of chairs—worn smooth by years of current and seasonal floods. Between them, small green shrubs and saplings push up, their leaves bright and reflective in direct light. The water closest to the viewer is thin and fast, slipping over stones in narrow channels that glint gold and white where sunlight strikes. As it moves toward the center of the frame, it gathers into a still basin, turning a deep green with hints of blue, its surface calmer and more reflective. Across the river, a layered rock face rises a few meters above the waterline. The stone is fractured and horizontal, with ledges and seams that catch shadow, giving it a banded appearance. Patches of moss and low vegetation cling to the cracks, softening the edges of the cliff. Above the rock, the forest thickens immediately. Conifer trees—tall and closely spaced—fill the background, their trunks mostly hidden by dense foliage. The canopy filters the sunlight, creating a muted, greenish haze that settles over the scene. On the right side, a large evergreen branch extends into the frame, its needles sharply lit and detailed against the darker woods behind it. Near the left edge of the river, partially in shadow, a person lies stretched out on a rock at the water’s edge, still and low against the stone, adding a sense of scale to the height of the trees and the breadth of the pool. The overall scene is cool-toned and shaded despite the sunlight, with the soundless suggestion of moving water, filtered light, and the dense, enclosing presence of forest on all sides.🙏

Anyone up for a swim??
Just below Lower Yaak Falls people gather here to swim and camp 🏕️

#flyfishing for Brook Trout is fantastic

#Montana

A roughly 13-inch brown trout rests in a wooden-framed net with black mesh, above clear water and a gravel-bottom stream.

Opening Day of PA Trout Season 🤩

It’s two fold…not only can I bring home fresh trout for dinner, but more importantly, I get to fish my home creeks instead of making the long drive 😊

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Trout #Photography

Montana Treasures® fly fishing apparel and cabin decor

‘Rock Trout’, spring time on the Yellowstone River, photo by Todd Rivers for Montana Treasures®

It's #EasterWeekend; and, we just got a pretty good snow in southwest #Montana. Going forward, all things point towards a pretty good stretch of days for #flyfishing #BigSkyCountry. Get out and enjoy #TheLastBestPlace today! :)

Wanna Buy a Bonefish Flat? Only $49.5 Million, No Big Deal You know the drill by now. First it was a Scottish salmon river, then a Catskills trout headquarters, even a tiny chunk of Wisconsin Driftless. it's fun to daydream about owning fishing real estate. Yesterday, Gray's Sporting Journal sent an email blast out with something extremely daydream worthy: The Salinas. Located on the southern tip of Long Island in the Bahamas, not the one with the traffic and the strip malls, the one surrounded by turquoise water.

Wanna Buy a Bonefish Flat? Only $49.5 Million, No Big Deal
#flyfishing #bonefish #bahamas

An April with no torn ACL. I’d be swinging that two hander swimming my fly to beauties like this.
#flyfishing #steelhead

NZ South Island
#flyfishing

Amber-colored, slightly hazy beer in a glass, paired with an orange-and-gray can featuring a trout design.

#FlyFishingFriday

One of my favorites 😊
And tomorrow is the PA trout opening day 😉
There will be a lot of people in my local creeks 😉

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Creek #Beer #IPA #Trout #Photography

A creek flow through in the woods On a cloudy morning Because of the recent rain, the water is muddy and higher than usual. There is a small grassy island where a goose is warming her eggs.

#FlyFishingFriday

Crum Creek, PA

I prefer the upper section of this creek for better water, but public access is limited 😞
This area looks more open, I should start checking it out 🤔

Lots of tick activity, though 😞 I have DEET in my car always ready 🙂

#FlyFishing #Hiking #Nature #Photography

Tying some nymphs based on notes and observations from past journal entries. Hopefully these bad boys will produce some fish! Fingers crossed…
#flytying #flypatterns #kamloops #flyfishing #trout #fishing #rainbowtrout #hanakhooks

Nikko Headwaters Report – Spring Comes Slowly A week into the season, the crowds that descended on Nikko's streams for opening day have thinned out. Guide Takashi and a visiting angler from Australia made their way into the headwaters. The fishing was difficult, with a single rainbow trout landed, and a reminder that early season in the mountains asks for patience. The headwaters sit at elevation where spring arrives slowly.

Nikko Headwaters Report - Spring Comes Slowly
#tenkara #flyfishing #japan

I’ve been exclusively fly fishing for a few years now but never been interested in tying my own flies. Having gear fished my whole life, I just buy what I need. Welp, I tried it. It ain’t pretty, but it’s mine. And I immediately understand why it’s fun. #flyfishing #flytying #pnw #bluesky

Spending more time at the fly tying bench these days makes me realize just how much I enjoy fly tying and playing around with patterns, materials, and hooks.

How about you? Do you find more inspiration at certain times of the year??
#flytying #flyfishing #kamloops #trout #fishing #rainbowtrout

An @ilffcessex.bsky.social member banking a #trout #flyfishing

A natural trout.

The White Marabou Muddler.

The stuff that happened on this river is out of the scope of my experience in #FlyFishing for three decades. I'm not giving it any justice by explanation - only to say that protect the natural forests, restore the rivers and do not overconsume, only because everyone else does

Box of Rain – A Fly Fishing Substack Worth Your Time I spend a decent amount of time crawling around the corners of the internet looking for fly fishing content worth sharing, and every now and then something lands in my feed that really draws me down a rabbit hole. Box of Rain, a Substack from someone who goes by CosmicJohn, was one of those finds, and has become a favorite read over the past year.

Box of Rain - A Fly Fishing Substack Worth Your Time
#flyfishing #substack

A creek flows through the woodland beneath a blue late-afternoon sky. On the left bank stands a prominent tree, its many bare branches reaching inward, still without leaves.

#ThursdayThoughts

West Branch Brandywine Creek, PA

Took a drive around while my son was at soccer practice, scouting for fishing spots ahead of trout season 🤔
ChesLen Preserve: no fishing allowed 😢
Surrounding areas: all private land, posted everywhere😭

#FlyFishing #Hiking #Nature
#Photography

Bulk without actual bulk.

Big water fly.

Spring steelhead season is here.

#flytying #flyfishing #steelheadflies