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AFFTA 2023

AFFTA 2023

If you’re like a lot of anglers, you may not give a lick about something…

Times A-Changing

Last week I received my latest issue of California Fly Fisher, the arrival of which…
Shoulder flexibility and strength can be improved with a simple flex band, repeated 15-20 times, in three sets.

Fitness for Bowhunting

Bowhunting season is almost upon us and, although I eschewed bows and arrows many years…
Alaska’s Chugach Mountains in 1990. Wieland is carrying his trusty Camp Trails internal frame pack. After that trip, and the conditioning that went with it, it fit him like an old flannel shirt.

The Labors of Hercules

If there is one basic ability every hunter should have, it’s backpacking.  To some extent,…
Winston Churchill’s work on a Sharps-Borchardt that sold at Rock Island in December, 2022. It brought nearly $30,000. Grace and three-dimensional quality? Indeed. Photo courtesy Rock Island Auction Company

Winston Gordon Churchill, 1939-2023

On July 31, at age 83, Winston Churchill of Proctorsville, Vermont, went to a world…
Gartside Dinghy, design #130

Inshore Skiffs

I received a note recently from a fellow boatbuilder who heard me on a podcast…
Photo by Gary Bulla

Travel Tying

Seated at the big communal dining table on the open porch at Baja Joe’s, in…

Wildlife in America

I often sense I live in a cultural void.  This is no place to analyze…
The Xero S1 screen displays the result after each shot.

More on Garmin’s Xero S1

On the surface, it’s every shotgunner’s dream:  A little machine that sits in front of…

Reels

I’ve written elsewhere about my first feeble attempts to cast flies in the surf, when…

Sargassum

When the grackles start up at sunset, whistling and catcalling on power lines outside the…
Photo by Brian O’Keefe

Carmenèré

Here’s a good one—especially the next time you find yourself fishing in Chile, and your…