Twelve new months is what January serves, a full year to achieve some of your greatest fly-fishing dreams. It could be a remote brook trout adventure high up in the Canadian Rockies, or an opportunity to finally experience one of Alaska’s most amazing fishing situations, when meaty leopard rainbows, Dolly varden and lake trout mop up on helpless salmon smolt. … more
FFI’s October edition is all about The Fortress; Trout Town: Fernie, British Columbia; Emerson Lake and Palmered; Artist Profile: Ethan Markie; Chicone’s Warhead Whiting; The Codebreaker; Fighting the Good Fight; Gone Clubbing; Island Delicacies; The Orvis Guide to Stillwater Trout Fishing; Waiting for Albert; Taking The Risk For Bahamian Permit and Tarpon; Broken Switches … more
Arabian Fishing Adventure; Musky: “enticingly preferred side attack angle”; The Optimist; River of Sinners; Gear Review: Big Agnes Tensleep Station 6 Base Camp; The Ultimate Predator;The World’s Undisputed Sailfish Capital: Guatemala; Essential Flies to Catch Snook Anywhere; Chasing Ghosts; Sailing Through Security; POSH in the Joulters … more
FFI’s June edition is packed with appealing reads, including stories on Bob Veverka’s Mantis Shrimp, Failure and Redemption in Belize, Cowboy Trout, Aussie Flats Targets, Early Season Alaska, Muskie, Tiger On The Fly, Bob Veverka’s Mantis Shrimp, Running Wide Open for Striped Bass Conservation, Next Generation SIMMS G3 Wader … more
FFI’s April edition is all about Eating Your Way Through the Spring Shad Run; Rocking the Eastern Stonefly Hatch; Why We Bass; Big Gap Hooks; Deep Winter for Huchen; McCoy’s All Day Hex Dun; An interview with Dylan Tomine; Trout Tracks: Essays on Fly Fishing … more
FFI’s February edition full with engaging reads such as Best Flies And Techniques for Laid-Up Tarpon; Phantom Zonker; Skeena Steelhead; The Dutton Pour; The Alter Ego … more
Our December issue is about
dreaming big—big tarpon in Nicaragua;
giant cutthroats in the Nevada high desert;
beastly barramundi in Australia;
swinging kings during Alaska’s early summer;
and chasing golden mahseer and
spiritual awareness in India.
Plus all the columns that you have
grown to love … more
FFI’s October edition is all about Artic Dreams; Xcaluk; Winter Off Key West; Warmwater’s Big Three; Tying the Coyote Shrimp; My Travel Insurance Adventure; Select The Right Hat; The Glider; Striped Bass; Reinstatement of Roadless Rule Protects Southeast Alaska Steelhead; Zen and the Art of Fly Reel Maintenance; Kings of the Road; Going For the Grand Slam; Fall Madness On Montana’s Madison River … more
Lake run brown trout East and West; First permit in Mexico; Going deep for Bulkley steel; Giant lake Nipigon brook trout; Keeping track of passports and essential papers; Tying in the “round”; A brewery guide to Vermont’s best trout water; A week in Alaska for Kvichak River rainbows; Rolling the dice during hurricane season; Tying Winchester’s Rip Rap; Del Brown’s Merkin … more
FFI’s June edition is packed with appealing reads, including stories on British Columbia and Alaska chinook salmon, mousing up rainbows, wild Alaska steelhead, Montana’s Bighole River, Brian Chan’s Ice Cream Cone Chironomid, flies for the surface film, Matt Harris’ photography kit, western Canada’s looper moth hatch, the Sili-Legs bonefish fly, tying Sancehez’s Convertible … more
FFI’s April edition is all about
getting back on the water as,
hopefully, the Covid situation clears.
Need some inspiration? Read up on Florida Keys tarpon, a permit playground in Cuba, Brian Chans’s damselfly equation, Albertas’s Bow and Crowsnest rivers, giant Euro pike, Pat Ford’s recipe for mahi, heading back to Belize, Lake Clark’s northern pike … more
Much of the world has come out of hiberation and all of us “two-dose” recipients are feeling happy and safe and are trying to make up for a lost year. Unfortunately, we’re all shooting for the same thing at the same time—build the new home, take the family camping, fly fish the waters we’ve always dreamed of. Live more. Work less … more