Features

Locale
BACKWOODS VERMONT BROOKIES
Where the Streams Have No Name.
Words: Kirk Kardashian

Essays
IN GUIDES WE TRUST
Bahamian Bones, Henry’s Fork Hard Labor, Shark Whispering, and The World’s Worst Guide.
Words: Greg Keeler, Jim Hepworth, Chris Santella,and Dylan Tomine

Adventure
PAPAGALLO
Baja, Brodies, and the Mercurial Roosterfish.
Words: Scott Sadil

Essay
WISCONSIN MUSKY MADNESS
Lost Fingers, Cheap Whiskey, and a Sacred Fishing Dowel.
Words: John Holt

Travel
BIG IN JAPAN
Small Streams, Small Fish, and Fried Chicken… Innards.
Words: Dylan Tomine

Gallery
SUBTLE INVESTIGATIONS OF LIGHT AND WATER
Photos: Cameron Miller

Locale
PYRAMID LAKE
Ladders to Heaven in the Nevada Desert.
Words: Laning Andrews
Photos: Chris Carnel

DEPARTMENTS

MASTHEAD
High-Sticking the Cheap Runs.

PUBLISHER’S NOTES
Full Moons, Chain-Store Rods, and Public Access.
Words: Jeff Galbraith

CONTRIBUTOR
Cleaning Whitefish Behind the 7-Eleven.

ARTIFACT
An Alabama Bass Shack.
Words: Monte Burke

OPEN WATER Underwater Perspectives
Photos: Tosh Brown

MEDIA Richard Chiappone’s Opening Days
Beyond “Aren’t trout keen?”
Words: ron P. swegman

OPEN WATER Winds of Insanity
Cummerbunds, Mouse Flies, and Crittering Up on Schniddles.
Words: Horatio Nailknot

CUTBANK Mensa Trout
The Art of Not Seeing a Thing.
Words: Bill Stieger

CUTBANK Skunked on the Bulkley
Family Fun in Smithers.
Words: Chris Santella

OPEN WATER Lago Strobel’s Jurassic Rainbows
Detached Retinas and a Blue Oasis.
Words: Tim Pask

OPEN WATER Atlantic Bonito
Street Fighters of the Inshore.
Words: Tom Keer

TAILOUT
Service Station Bounty.
Photos: Sean Kerrick Sullivan