Icons, a web series from Swing the Fly, looks at the most influential figures in spey casting and swinging flies – from North America and beyond in the 21st century. In this installment we visit with iconic photographer Aaron Goodis. We discuss the photos that got away, the most difficult part of capturing spey casting and much, much more.
ICONS: Dana Sturn
Icons, a web series from Swing the Fly, looks at the most influential figures in spey casting and swinging flies – from North America and beyond in the 21st century. In this installment we visit with Dana Sturn, founder of Speypages.com, defender of the Thompson, and we relive his son’s first steelhead. Tell us something […]
Conservation Corner: What Should Come Next For Washington’s Wild Steelhead?
A recent Seattle Times article highlighted issues impacting our state fish.
B.T.S & S.B.S. : The Creeper
Steve Szeliga shares a bit of the Behind-The-Scenes and then Step-by-Step how to tie his Creeper pattern variant, inspired by Mike Papais
Klamath reconnected: The four dams are gone
This Conservation Corner was originally published by Swing The Fly conservation partner Trout Unlimited on Aug. 28th and can be seen in it’s original form at https://www.tu.org/magazine/conservation/barriers/dam-removal/klamath-reconnected-the-four-dams-are-gone/ Big things happen when committed people decide that failure is not an option Between my roles at Trout Unlimited and on the board of directors at the Klamath River […]
Beautiful Bycatch
Often a dirty word, Ancans rethinks the undesirables.
Conservation Corner: Clearwater Daze
A PAIR OF GREAT LAKES SPEY ANGLERS SHARE THEIR LOVE FOR IDAHO’S CLEARWATER RIVER, ITS BIG STEELHEAD, AND THEIR SUPPORT FOR BREACHING THE LOWER SNAKE RIVER DAMS
“Dad! I Got A Fish!” – A 15-Year-Old’s First (2) Steelhead
Adrian Cortes is one proud poppa.
It’s All Trout Spey
In contrast, rivers like the Sol Duc, the Queets, and other coastal rivers tend to be smaller, steeper, receive more rainfall, and have less volcanic geology, all of which tends to make them inherently less productive for growing large trout.
Conservation Corner: Disappearing Summer Steelhead – The Fate of Overshoot Steelhead Seeking Cold Water in the Columbia and Snake Rivers
Overshoot steelhead have long been understood to be a factor among Columbia Basin populations, but a pair of recent studies using tagged adult fish (Richins and Skalski 2018, and Murdoch et al. 2022) have demonstrated the phenomenon is much more extensive than previously thought. This has huge implications for steelhead management and recovery, and the operation of the basin’s hydropower system.
Gary Marston, the Science Advisor for Trout Unlimited’s Wild Steelheaders United, writes in-depth about the studies and their implications in a pair of articles published by @wildsteelhead and summarized in this ‘Conservation Corner’ for @SwingTheFly.