On Lunkers, Tiddlers, and Other Terms for Big and Little Fish

by Jan Harold Brunvand The terms we use to describe big fish—especially the…


Keepers of the Flame: The Boy Scouts of America

by John Mundt The Fly-Fishing merit badge: I must admit to a slight sense of…


How Merriweather Lewis's Cutthroat Trout Sealed Custer's Fate at the Little Bighorn

By Richard Lessner Trout fishing was an important part of European settlement…


John Murray's Pike

By Frederick BullerMost middle-aged anglers have witnessed an enormous growth…


Al Barnes: Thin Water, Big Skies

By Fred Polhemus Al Barnes in front of one of his paintings, Fore…


Bamboo in the Closet: Treasure or What?

By Fred Kretchman An 8-foot Gillum bamboo fly rod brought to the…


W.B. Yeats and the Fly

By Gordon M. WickstromPOETRY, IT HAS BEEN SAID, is the most esoteric of the…


The Haslinger Breviary

The Haslinger Breviary Tract by Dr. Richard Hoffman and Peter Kidd The…


Anglers at War

by John Mundt, Jr. The American Fly Fisher 2002, Volume 28, No. 4 ...This…


Trout with a Tale

by Keith HarwoodAlthough it is not regarded as politically correct nowadays,…