
The Godfather
Paulino Arias has been preaching sustainable fly-fishing in Argentine Patagonia since the last trout he caught for food nearly six decades ago.

Paulino Arias has been preaching sustainable fly-fishing in Argentine Patagonia since the last trout he caught for food nearly six decades ago.

Pyramid Lake serves up world-class angling for large “extinct” cutthroat trout.

Bert Berkley is 98 years old and still casts as if he were born with a fly rod in his hands.

Mountain man turned Renaissance man, John Simms never stops thinking of ways to improve the sports he loves.

Catching sturgeon on the Willamette River in Oregon, with an English trout expert.


The writer kills a non-native brook trout to help a bull trout compete in a Montana stream.

So which fish is strongest relative to its weight? Third in our survey of six contenders is the Atlantic salmon, known for its hard pull and ballerina-like aerial displays.


For a brief wrinkle in time, a band of cosmic cowboys from the ’70s reveled in a western trout paradise.

Paulino Arias has been preaching sustainable fly-fishing in Argentine Patagonia since the last trout he caught for food nearly six decades ago.

Pyramid Lake serves up world-class angling for large “extinct” cutthroat trout.

Bert Berkley is 98 years old and still casts as if he were born with a fly rod in his hands.

Mountain man turned Renaissance man, John Simms never stops thinking of ways to improve the sports he loves.

Catching sturgeon on the Willamette River in Oregon, with an English trout expert.

Hunting steelhead with new friends on ancient rivers.

The writer kills a non-native brook trout to help a bull trout compete in a Montana stream.

So which fish is strongest relative to its weight? Third in our survey of six contenders is the Atlantic salmon, known for its hard pull and ballerina-like aerial displays.

A poem about tackle boxes, old lures and secrets.

For a brief wrinkle in time, a band of cosmic cowboys from the ’70s reveled in a western trout paradise.