Does Fly-Fishing Have a Generation Gap?

This isn't the first time this question has been asked and we aren't the first to ask it. It's been floating around the fly-fishing world for years now. Every person has a different take on the state of the sport and how it got that way, but most of the conversations touch on the same issues: aging participants, fewer new anglers and the myriad other activities that compete with fly-fishing for anglers' time. The question is not idle navel-gazing. Not only are retailers' and manufacturers' livelihoods directly affected by this issue but, as two of our essayists point out, the current state of affairs touches all anglers in several ways. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.