Highlights
About Our Autumn Cover
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
Yes, the Callibaetis Spinner is a beautiful, stunning pattern...but it's also a top stillwater trout catcher. The cover photographer this issue tells you why…
Sure, It's a Winston...
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
The feel of a big rainbow is special, even more so when the rod tells you it's a good fish...
Big Sky Living
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
Fishing in Montana is paradise found. When you're ready to think about living there full-time, or owning a second home in Big Sky Country, check out these desirable listings.
School Days at Orvis
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
Saturdays in July are "free fly-fishing teaching" days at participating Orvis retail stores across the country, in partnership with Trout Unlimited.
Teaching Traditions
- By: Joe Healy
About 200 students learned the fundamentals of fly-fishing this past week through FR&R's Fly-Fishing in Schools program...a gratifying teaching experience and a reminder that fly-fishing is too much fun not to share...
2010 Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
2010 Award-winning stories published in our Autumn 2010 issue and on-line. Next year,send your original work of fly-fishing fiction or non-fiction to compete for the most important writing award in all of fly-fishing. Our judges are looking for "A distinguished original work of short fiction or non-fiction that embodies an implicit love of fly-fishing, respect for the sport and the natural world in which it takes place, and high literary values.”
GoFishn for Fishing Community Connections
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
See Fly Rod & Reel's page on GoFISHn.com, angling's community connection—plus, guide updates and new posts daily. If you like Facebook, you'll be right at home at GoFISHn...
The Musky Chronicles
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
Footage unlike any we've seen to date…catching muskies on flies. You don't have to be from the Midwest to appreciate this, my friends…Lee Church delivers some compelling movie clips…
Spring Letters
- By: Fly Rod and Reel
I read the FR&R March 2010 story of a new record steelhead, caught on the Hoh River. Upon my cursory reading, I stupidly e-mailed “Shame on Harrison for killing the steelhead; shame on Joan Wulff for endorsing the story; shame on IGFA for requiring steelhead be killed to qualify for a world record; and shame on FR&R for printing it.”



