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Taking Stock: The contentious world of hatcheries
The questions surrounding hatcheries make clear that after generations, we still don’t have all the answers.
Reading the Water, Reading Each Other
A father and son share a love letter to trout, art and fleeting time spent together.
True Believers
A pair of friends embark on an ambitious mission to raise a steelhead on a dry fly in winter. A hopeless proposition? They'll soon find out.
Coming of Age
Two old friends pull story after story from a river of memories as they once again fish the Michigan waters of their boyhood.
Laughter Rang off Canyon Walls
Climbing mountains for fish is a spiritual endeavor for the author, whose parents pointed him toward a fuller way of life on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne reservation.
Ties That Bind
A father-son relationship is strengthened during a fishing trip to New Zealand, as the young man prepares to leave home and the elder contemplates a new phase in their lives.
Out There
Two guides embark on a “Jungle Creek” expedition in the southwest Alaska bush before their summer work season begins. Their holy grail is an untouched rainbow fishery.
Fall 2017 Preview Video
Editor Bill Sisson walks you through the Fall 2017 issue of Anglers Journal.
5 Reasons We Fish
Five writers unravel why these fish became their favorites
Brown Trout
The fly fisherman has ‘this thing’ for browns rising to mayflies
Rainbow Trout
A lifelong infatuation with irascible, beautiful, boulder-leaping rainbows
Small Spaces
Tiny trout and memories of young love swirl in ribbons of light and shadows in a pool beneath the cedars
Poetry of Motion
Her paintings of trout trumpet her passion for color and her love of fly-fishing.
Land of Plenty
There’s a spot in Chilean Patagonia near the confluence of two rivers, one aquamarine-clear and the other the color of earthen tea, where Pancho Salas and his family call home.
Holy Water
At the risk of offending the people I fish and break bread with, I’m just going to say it: I don’t get Michigan in the winter.
Trout Bums Welcome
It’s clear from the moment I arrive that there aren’t enough dead bugs on my windshield or dirt on my car to be perceived as a serious fly angler here.
Outlaw Trout
The worst part about driving through most of Wyoming is having to look at it. The state’s office of tourism dissembles.
Damn Near Perfect
Here at last was an almost-virgin, freestone stream that looked like the streams that Arnold Gingrich, Ray Bergman and A.J. McClane had written about.
The Permit Whisperer
Justin Rea has a love/hate relationship with a fish that doesn't play fair on the fly
Master of the Moment
Arthur Shilstone, one of sporting art’s masters, is a transparent watercolorist.
Northern Gravity
It was close to midnight on the Fourth of July, and the sun was drawing its curtain for the day.