Winner! Our smoltiest smolt to date: Go small or go home.

Fall is optimum time for micro action and FFJ's smolt army continues to send in their staggering piscine victories for this episode's prize a pair of Smith Optics Shelters shades.  Let's face it, anyone can harass a spawning pink salmon into snapping at an orange length of yarn, it takes a sportsman to stalk, hook up, and land a shad smaller than a lighter. Thanks Brandon722 mystical shad hunter from Highlands Ranch, CO with this macker from Union Resevoir.

After months hammering away at features, photo edits, design and other shop needs, we are actually holding a (very) few advance copies of The Flyfish Journal's premiere edition. Newsstand and subscriber copies will be arriving and shipping after the FFR trade show, approx four weeks.

And. We. Are. Stoked.

A late summer dispatch from our friend Justin Crump; formerly of AEG and currently on a mission to fish like there's no tomorrow. He definitely is doing it right. I mean, are you going to catch 30+ cohos tomorrow? And according to JC, "the beer is free, the food is great, and the crew is top notch"....

While this could well be considered Smolt of Every Other Month, trout season has been upon us here in a land where runoff rules all and the hatches we do get tend to usurp the mundane: deadlines, weddings, renewing truck tabs, remembering to eat... the small stuff.

As it is, we are happy to announce the next round of SMOTM with our partner Smith Optics, offering a pair of Shelters, one of their finest shades, to the winner.

Back at it, Bryan McAnulty has been on the smolt hunt...

A sometimes guide on the Methow, as well as on the Olympic Penninsula and elsewhere, Matt sent us this lyrical gem on the nuances of getting your ass kicked in Spokanistan, WA.

Well sports fans, with many and varied entries for our first-ever Smolt of the Month competition, we are pleased to announce a winner. After sorting through piles of images, scouring photo files, and heated discussion among the judges....