There is a bit of Ahab in every angler. The mythical fish, elusive piscine adversaries that remain untamed and untackled, swim through the pools of the mind, ever in sight, ever out of reach. As a ...

Let’s say you’ve been fly-casting to trout for a while now. You’ve experienced world-class dry-fly-fishing on the Fryingpan, Big Horn and the Madison, conquered the spooky cutthroat of alpine lakes, ...

Jasper Taback began his outdoor career in the mountains of northern Colorado, where a short stint guiding anglers on trout streams evolved into a budding career writing about all things fly fishing.

Let’s say you’ve experienced world-class dry fly fishing on the Fryingpan, Big Horn and the Madison, conquered the spooky cutthroat of alpine lakes, and have floated the Green River to the Roaring ...

Bonefishermen are returning to The Bahamas after the one-two punch of Hurricane Dorian and the global pandemic. Here, the author is all smiles after boating one of the strong fighting fish caught ...

In the April 2024 issue of The Backcast, the Taconic Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s newsletter, Charles Wohl of Lenox wrote an interesting article about bonefishing at Ambergris Caye, Belize and an ...

ONE HUNDRED FEET AWAY, to the left of a long mangrove shoot sticking out of the water like a miniature channel marker, a swirl on the water’s surface catches our eyes. “I like that,” Nick Castillo ...

The sun blazed down relentlessly from the summer blue sky, patched with white candy floss clouds. The temperature hovered around 30 degrees; I know that this scenario was commonplace across Yorkshire ...

How my father came to regard bonefish as the greatest of all gamefish, I can’t recall. It wasn’t from experience. He had grown up casting plugs for smallmouth bass in Appalachia, driven north to fish ...