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So You Want To Be An Alaska Guide?
By Whitney Gould The plane, which brought me to Western Alaska is gone. I’m standing on a remote, empty tarmac. The sky is a herring-gull gray, the air crisp and clean. I am surrounded by tundra. The only visible object is a square box painted white, the...
The Bow Clock
If you can't communicate with your guide, you're fishing blind. Communication is the key to successful saltwater fly fishing. Flats fishing with a guide is a team sport, and like all team sports, The team must work together to win. Your guide has a couple of...
Get on the water, without breaking the bank A Guide To Alternative Watercraft
By Ethan Smith Are you’re tired of pounding the same water as everyone else? Tired of public wade fishing access points, and want to get to those spots that have a chance of being slightly less pressured but you don’t have a ton of money to drop...
Eternal Return
By Lauren Holt "IN HINDSIGHT, CHANGE WAS CERTAINLY ON OFFER THAT SANTERIA SUNDAY MORNING" “There is no being apart from becoming.” – Hegel maahnk maahnk maahnk maahnk maahnk maank I rolled over to find my phone and kill my alarm, groggy in the stillness and the purple dark of...
Fly Feature: Stealth Bomber
By Justin Pickett IT DIVES AND IT GURGLES. IT SPUTTERS AND IT BUBBLES. AND IT JUST PLAIN CATCHES FISH! The Stealth Bomber is by far my number one topwater fly pattern for warm water species. Whether I’m after smallmouth or largemouth bass, or targeting bluegill, it’s always...