Fly Fishing

Fly Fisherman’s 2026 Father’s Day Gift Guide: Gear He’ll Actually Use; Where to Fly Fish for Wild Trout in New Mexico; Shopping for a Fishing Dad? Here's What We Actually Want.

Fly Fishing

Fly Fisherman’s 2026 Father’s Day Gift Guide: Gear He’ll Actually Use; Where to Fly Fish for Wild Trout in New Mexico; Shopping for a Fishing Dad? Here's What We Actually Want.

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Trout fishing in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Destinations

Northern New Mexico offers a unique trout fishing experience, from the high-desert canyons of the Rio Grande to native cutthroats in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

The common ground of "fishing" is sometimes where the best connections happen between fathers and sons.

Gear Reviews

Skip the predictable Father's Day gifts this year. Every item in this guide is gear I've tested and continue to use. Some are inexpensive, others cost more, but all have earned a place in my fly-fishing and outdoor system.

Fly Fishing

How to Fly Fish for Brown Trout In the Moonlight; The Strange Spiny Lure Taking Over Bass Fishing in 2026; Here's Why the Abu Garcia VoltiQ is a Must-Buy Baitcast Reel

Big brown trout are out and about at night.

Fly Fishing

Night fishing for brown trout is often your best shot at the biggest fish in the river. Here’s where they feed and how to catch them after dark.

Guide Jacob Thomason with a barely hooked smallmouth bass from Lake Ontario.

Fly Fishing

The smallmouth bass bite is entering one of its best windows of the year. Rivers are warming, fish are active, and fly anglers from the Midwest to the Northeast have their hands full with one of the hardest-fighting fish in freshwater.

Fighting a bluefish off of North Carolina's Crystal Coast

Destinations

Fly Fishing North Carolina's Crystal Coast for redfish, sea trout, bluefish, cobia, false albacore and more.

Fly Fishing

From Florida and the Bahamas to Cuba, Mexico, and the Seychelles, these are some of the world’s best saltwater fly fishing destinations for bonefish, tarpon, and permit.

Fly Fishing

Can a Luxury Ski Resort in Utah Be a Great Fly Fishing Destination; Hardest-Fighting Fish in Your Local Water; and “It’s Not the Technology”—Jacob Wheeler Pushes Back

Utah guide Sammy Elam taking the scenic route to the river.

Destinations

When anglers think fly fishing destinations, ski resorts rarely make the list. But a fall stay at Montage Deer Valley in Utah revealed great trout water, a walkable mountain town, and enough outdoor adventure to make off-season ski towns a great choice.

Fly angler and West Virginia guide Chase McCoy, throwing a tight loop while balanced on his kayak.

Fly Fishing

Learning to fly cast isn’t about more fishing—it’s about better practice. Here's a simple program to follow that will have positive long-term results.

Tenkara rods are compact and easy to use, perfect for squeezing in some extra fishing on a road trip

Fly Fishing

Travel light and fish anywhere. Discover why tenkara is the perfect compact rod for spontaneous trout fishing in the Eastern Sierra.

Freshwater

A Fly Fishing Trip to Africa Took an Unexpected Turn on Safari; The Strange Spiny Lure Taking Over Bass Fishing in 2026; I Didn’t Expect the Best Bass Fishing of My Trip to Happen at Disney World.

Fly Fishing

Fly fishing is hard to explain. The Madison shows why it matters.

Freshwater

A Fly Fishing Trip to Africa Took an Unexpected Turn on Safari; REVEALED: Berkley Lab Series Baits Unveiled After Bassmaster Classic Leak; The Finesse Fishing Kit Built for Today’s Pressured Bass

An older male lion with fiercely intense eyes.

Destinations

Chasing tigerfish in the Okavango Delta turns into something more when the focus moves from the river to the animals on the plain.

If "The Madison" Made You Want to Fly Fish Montana, Here’s Where to Start; The Two ‘Mystery Baits’ That Defined the 2026 Bassmaster Classic; REVEALED: Berkley Lab Series Baits Unveiled After Bassmaster Classic Leak.

Fly Fishing

Fly Fishing "The Madison" in Montana; Two ‘Mystery Baits’ of the Bassmaster Classic; Berkley Lab Series Baits Revealed.

Montana's beautiful native Yellowstone Cutthroat

Fly Fishing

If the new hit TV show has you eyeing a fly fishing trip to Montana, these are the rivers to hit.

Anglers working the riverbank for African tigerfish.

Destinations

On the Okavango River in Africa, I search for tigerfish, navigating hippos, bird-filled channels, and the kind of strikes that can yank your fly rod out of your hands.

Destinations

How a simple email turned into a week chasing tigerfish in Botswana.

Fly Fishing

In mountain towns, fly fishing and bluegrass share the same rhythm.

Fly Fishing

After the Seagrass Collapse, Is Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Again?; Five Miles From the Truck, With a Limit of Walleyes — and a Problem; Svivlo Draken ONE Baitcaster Review: Is This Really a Backlash-Free Reel?

Capt. Troy Perez feeling optimistic for the future of Mosquito Lagoon.

Destinations

After years of seagrass loss and fishery collapse, Mosquito Lagoon on Florida’s Space Coast is showing real signs of recovery.

Fly Fishing

Bass don’t disappear in winter – they move. Here’s where to find them and how to catch them on a fly rod, when cold water changes everything.

Scott Finanger of Wild Fly with "fish on!" in Belize.

Fly Fishing

A review of Wild Fly Productions’ film “20 Days to Catch the Holy Grail of Fly Fishing,” following a 20-day permit pursuit in Belize and exploring the obsession, setbacks, and psychology behind chasing one fish on a fly rod.