Category : Reader Submissions
A short film combining many days that I should have been in class with hours I could have been studying. Fly fishing and film/photography are some of my passions and I figured I could put something together to document the beauty of the Kansas River, beyond the tires and car batteries. If you like it, [...]
If you believe, as did Norman Maclean’s father, that fly casting is an art, then fly fishing with a bamboo rod just makes sense. However, we are so far removed from the time that bamboo was the only material used for fly rods, some people might be surprised to learn that bamboo rods can be [...]
From Fires Season to Fall: Western Montana was plagued by forest fires during late summer. Smokey skies make for pretty pictures but they scare a lot of anglers off. The dirty little secret is that fire years offer great fishing. The smoke acts as artificial cloud cover and critter sized trout make mistakes under these [...]
Ivan is awesome. Puts out lots of video and we here at focalFISH like it all. Thanks for taking so long to finish your Thesis Ivan. We appreciate it greatly. More than you could ever know. You can keep up with Yukon Goes Fishing here on his primary website. How ’bout his FB Page, and [...]
A setting sun signals the end of the day, but in the last moments until the burning golden orb disappears behind the horizon line, magic happens on the Missouri River in late summer. Insects dance at the river’s edge, and trout normally too wary to rise for a dry fly momentarily break into our world [...]
Cameron is known to most of you from his terrifically popular Fiberglass Manifesto Blog. He takes photos too. And we here at FocalFISH dig that. Cameron is a reviewing master and only fishes with Glass. Like he once said, we flirt with it…he fishes it every time he fishes. Everytime. We met Cameron at the [...]
FLY FISHING CUBA – Photo Essay In many ways and for many years, fishing the waters of Cuba has been a maddening “dangling carrot” for a large number of American saltwater fly fishermen; a place that is seemingly so close geographically, yet so out of reach politically and with regards to access. “Maybe next year” [...]
Hello Focal fish, Rangeley fly-fishing & Kash J. Haley here today bringing you some more images form my neighborhood. Here is a little about my area ad region. Snuggled in the western mountains of Maine Rangeley is full of native brook trout and landlocked salmon. Water is abundant and varied, ranging from small streams, tail-waters, [...]
Zach Scott has been toting around his camera for some time now and has some nice photos popping out of it. Zach shoots a Canon T2i and loves it. He want a few more lenses…don’t we all. Zach is a student at University of Montana and while we do not know what his field of [...]