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Western Water Conservation Talks Already Underway

Across the West, multiple water conservation districts and state offices are already working on efforts to reduce water use,...

Why Mercury? Motors to Makos with Conway Bowman

Guides fish hard, but for some, "fishing hard" goes further than just the effort they spend on the water. Captain Conway Bowman falls into...

How to Catch Trout on Dry Flies During Winter

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Dry fly fishing is an addiction. Watching a trout...

The Drift: My First Taste of Salt

Tarpon rolled all around me, while a bull shark cruised off to my right. Further up the shore, a pair of dolphins slammed mullet...

Travel Creel: Raising the Bar for Fly Fishing Travel

On the first official Travel Creel trip, a group of anglers gathered on the Oregon coast chasing winter steelhead. Travel Creel founder Joshua Schwartz...

The Complete Float Fishing Gear Guide

Float fishing offers fly fishermen a means to escape the crowds and explore more water. At Flylords, we've fished in or rowed just about...

Gear Review: St. Croix Legend Elite Fly Rod

I'm no stranger to St. Croix fly rods. Growing up, those were the rods my dad had stashed behind the seat of his truck,...

How to Tie: The Corona Stone

In this week’s “How to Tie” feature, Kelly Galloup with TheSlideinn ties a nymph that every trout angler with stoneflies in their water should...

Behind the Cause: CalTrout

For this installment of Behind the Cause, the Flylords team sat down with California Trout, the preeminent conservation organization focused on California's freshwater ecosystem....

March Madness Bracket Challenge: Fly Fishing Edition

For March Madness, we thought it would be fun to put to the test a topic widely debated by fly anglers: the best species....

Dialed In: Catching More Smallmouth Bass with Mike Schultz

Bronzeback. Smallie. Micropterus Dolomieu. Smallmouth Bass. They are fighters; hardy fish with toughness and aggression matched only by those who relentlessly hunt them with...