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Photo of the Day: College Student Lands Record Pike on Lake Champlain

October 21, 2016

Written by: Drew Price

Lauren Dunn show’s off a women’s line-class record landed on Vermont’s Lake Champlain.
Photo by Drew Price

I first met Lauren Dunn in August of this year. Her dad, Brian, had contacted me to see if I was available to target some bowfin for potential IGFA women’s line-class world records. Lauren . . .

Video: Pike Strike!

September 26, 2016

Here’s a cool pike-fishing video by FlyFishingFanatics from the swamps of Norway, where the snot rockets seem pretty thick. At the 2:07 mark, you can see that the strike of one pike actually . . .

Trout Bum of the Week LXXIII: Bill Bernhardt

August 23, 2016

The fertile waters of the Upper Connecticut River produce some fine brook trout.
Photos courtesy Bill Bernhardt

Bill Bernhardt is head guide at Lopstick Lodge Outfitters in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, and he has fished in the Granite State most of his life. However, he has also guided in Chile and cast flies . . .

Photo of the Day: Four Feet of Canadian Pike

June 17, 2016

Written by: Mike Lembke, Wollaston Lake Lodge

Just shy of the coveted 50-inch mark, this pike put a serious bend in Jonathan’s fly rod.
Photo courtesy Wollaston Lake Lodge

Our 9-foot Helios 2 rods and Mirage V reels are getting a workout at Wollaston Lake Lodge, in northern Saskatchewan. Sight-casting to a four-foot fish and watching it eat is just plain fun. In. . .

Photo of the Day: Pikezilla in Upstate New York

June 02, 2016

Written by: Kubie Brown

The lakes of the Adirondacks hold some big northern pike.
Photo courtesy Kubie Brown

My brother and I took our annual adventure to the Adirondack Mountains, hunting for spring pike. It was cold and windy, and the fishing was slow. Though we both caught a few smaller. . .

Classic Orvis Trout Bum of the Week: Joe Demalderis

April 11, 2016

Joe D. with a beautiful Patagonia brown trout and the smile of a man who enjoys his work.
All photos courtesy Joe Demalderis

Joe Demalderis—or simply “Joe D.”— operates Cross Current Guide Service and Outfitters, guiding for trout and smallmouths on New York’s Upper Delaware system and for striped bass and bluefish off Northern New Jersey. He has been guiding for more than. . .

Trout Bum of the Week LXIV: Rich Strolis

February 08, 2016

Throwing big streamers for brown trout is one of Rich’s favorite pastimes.
Photos courtesy Rich Strolis

Rich Strolis is an independent guide on Connecticut’s Farmington and Housatonic rivers, but he’s perhaps better known for his fly-tying videos on vimeo–many of which have been featured on. . .

Trout Bum of the Week LXII: Kubie Brown

January 11, 2016

Since moving out West, Kubie has spent a lot of time chasing cutthroat trout in Montana and Wyoming.
Photos courtesy Kubie Brown

Kubie Brown is a Vermont native who used to man the fly-fishing desk at the Orvis flagship store in Manchester, but he has since moved to Montana to pursue his fly fishing dreams. He is. . .

Video: Second-Cast Pike in a City Park

December 28, 2015

Dutch angler Hans Bock has put together a fun, short video, which he believes might be the “World’s Fastest Pike Catch.” Dunno about that, but the video is pretty darned cool, shot. . .

Video: “Engler,” the Story of a Famed Fly-Fishing Life

October 27, 2015

Here’s an absolutely beautiful video about famed Colorado guide Mark Engler, inventor of the WD-40 Emerger, and the path along which the fly-fishing life has taken him. As the camera follows. . .