November 20, 2009

Fly Fishing Resources & Links

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General Fly Fishing - International

Carp.comA popular UK-based Web site for carp fishing enthusiasts.
Damsel Fly Fishing The only female advanced qualified Salmon instructor in the UK.

EpirusFishing.com
— Guided fly fishing in northwestern Greece.
FishandFly.com
— One of the top British-based general interest fly fishing Web sites.
Fly Fishers' Republic — A general resource site that includes articles on fishing tactics, angling entomology, fly-tying step-by-steps and readers stories.
FlyfishingAcademy.co.uk —Fly fishing instruction and guiding for wild trout and rainbow trout from the stillwaters of East Midlands and East Anglia.
FlyFishingHistory.com — British fly fishing history Web site by Andrew Herd, author of The Fly, History of Fly Fishing, and other books.
Fujioka's Home Page — Fine art and information on Japanese and western pacific fly fishing.
JamesCard.net — An American fly fishing guide and writer in South Korea
LetsFlyFish.com — Site of British fly casting instructor Ally Gowans.
Midlands Fly Fishing — Fly fishing instruction and guiding in the U.K. Peak District and Cotswolds.
New Zealand FishingOnline guide to fly fishing in New Zealand with detailed location maps and info about regulations, fly supplies, guides and accommodations.
Salvelinus.comSpanish fly fishing adventures in Pyrenees Mountains.
Sportfishing Worldwide Fly fishing travel company focused on personal and corporate excursions. Company owned programs in Guatemala and Iceland.
US Youth Fly Fishing Team — Web site for the U.S. Youth Fly Fishing Team.

Guides, Outfitters and Lodges

Austin Lowder/Sea and Stream Outfitters Guide services for Tarpon, Redfish and Snook in Boca Grande, Florida.
AztecAnglers— San Juan River, New Mexico fly fishing outfitters.
Big Sky Fishing A general interest Montana fishing site with plenty of fly fishing info plus a great list of Webcam links.
Betts Guide Service Web site for Chad Betts's Michigan guide service with reports on the Muskegon, White and Pere Marquette rivers.
Bite Me Kayak Fishing Belize — Ambergris Key kayak fly fishing service.
BoneRanger — Upper Florida Keys guide Ann Holahan's Web site.
BookItBeliz.com — Booking agent for Belize fly-fishing vacations.
Brant Oswald Fly Fishing Web site for Montana-based veteran guide and casting instructor Brant Oswald.
BuckeyeFlyFishers.com For Cincinnati, OH-area fly fishers.
CoastalFlyAngler — Web site of Eric Wallace, guide for Maine's Casco Bay and the Kennebec River.
Colorado Trout Hunters — Denver-area fly fishing guiding and instruction.
Echo River Trips Fly fishing on the Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho and the Rogue in Oregon.
El Pescador — Fly fishing for bonefish and tarpon from Belize's Ambergris Caye.
Elk River Inn & Guide Service Lodging and Orvis guide service based in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia.
Fin and Feather Outfitters — Web site for Kevin Guerin, guide for the Florida Keys and Montana.
Florida Keys Outfitters — The Florida Keys' most experienced and knowledgable staff and home of the Florida Keys Fly Fishing School.
FlyFishingInNH.com — New Hampshire fly fishing site.
FlyFishNorCal.org — Web site for northern California conservation group, featuring maps, commentaries, and photos.
Full Circle Outfitters — Web site for Michael Guerin, guide on Montana's Madison, Yellowstone, Missouri, Big Hole, Blackfoot, and Rock Creek.
Gallatin River Lodge — Near Bozeman, Montana, Gallatin River Lodge provides fine lodging, exceptional dining and fly fishing guide service on the Madison, Gallatin and Yellowstone Rivers and private water.
GuidedAway.com — An online directory of fly fishing guides from around the world.
HotFish Charters — Flats, inshore and backcountry fly fishing on Florida's Mosquito Lagoon.
HuntFishWithFly.com — Web site for Florida Keys guide Darren Williams.
Idaho River Journeys — Fly fishing on Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon.
John Nagy's Steelhead Journal — Web site for Steelhead guide and author John Nagy with details on Lake Erie steelhead fishing and Nagy's book Steelhead Guide.
Leo Wright Guide Service
— Web site for Capt. Leo Wright, offering fly fishing and light tackle float trips on the Muskegon River and surrounding waters of NW Michigan.
Madi-Stone Outfitters — Web site for Livingston, Montana-based guide Rob Olson, who guides in the greater Yellowstone area.
MaineFlyFish.com — Web site for Kevin McKay, guide on Maine's Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers, including forums, news and advice on Maine fly fishing.
Munsungan Hunting & Fishing Club —Fishing for native brook trout landlocked salmon in the North Maine Woods.
Northeast Fly Fishing Guide Service —Web site for Orvis-endorsed guide Walt Geryk, who fishes New York, Western Massachusetts, and Cape Cod.
North Star Guide Service —Web site for outfitters serving the central New Hamphire and lakes region.
Owen River Lodge — New Zealand's only 5-star specialist fly fishing lodge.
Reel Job Fishing/Capt. Kent Klewein
Georgia fly fishing outfitter operating guided fly fishing and conventional fishing trips in North Georgia for trophy trout and bass.
RoseRiverFarm.com
A private fishery on the Rose River in Virginia's Madison County.
Sailfish BayBig game fly fishing in Guatemala, the world's most prolific sailfishery. Beachfront accommodations.
Steelheadquarters.comHerb Imondi's northeast Ohio steelhead fishing site.
StuartFlyFishing — Web site for Florida east coast guide Capt. John Meskauskas.
TroutFishers
— Web site TroutFishers guide service, which is based in Kingsport, Tennessee, and fishes East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and southwestern Virginia.
Weatherby's
— One of the oldest and best-known sporting camps in the U.S., located on Maine's Grand Lake Stream.
Wilson's Sporting Camps — Miramichi Atlantic salmon fishing guides and outfitter for more than 150 years.
Yellowstone TroutScout Outfitters — Fly fishing outfitter located in Livingston, Montana, fishing the Yellowstone, Missouri, and Madison rivers and Paradise Valley Spring Creeks.

Special Interest

BassBugCentral.com — Warmwater expert John Likakis's bass bug Web site.
The Fly Fishing Insider — Fly fishing product reviews, location reports, and techniques articles (subscription-based).
FlyTyingForum.com — An excellent forum and information site for fly tiers.
RoughFisher.com — A roughfisherman's journal. An inside look at catching underutilized fish with a fly rod.
SpeyBorn.com — Web site for professional fly casting instructor and two-handed rod expert Simon Gawesworth.
TroutNut.com — An extensive online scientific and photographic reference for freshwater fly tiers and stream entomologists.

Fly Fishing blogs & Bulletin Boards

40 Rivers to Freedom A blog by northeast angler and tier Alex Cerveniak.
Angler Wannabe A Utah-based fly fishing blog.
Bish on Fish — New Zealand guide Tony Bishop's fishing blog.
DanBlanton.com
Includes a very popular bulletin board.
Dragfree — A blog devoted to fly fishing for native species.
FishingJones — One of the most actively updated Weblogs, covers all kinds of fishing.
FishSpawn — Usually with some good photos and sometimes video produced by Angling Exploration Group.
FlyAnglersOnline.com — One of the largest online fly fishing Web sites, with over 37,000 pages of information.
FlyFishRadio.com — The first "Podcast" site for fly fishers.
Fly Talk: The Flyfishing Blog from Field & Stream — Hosted by Kirk Deeter and Tim Romano.
Fly Times "Old Timey" Fishing Blog —A not-so-behind-the-times blog with a variety of interesting commentary.
Long Rodding in Garden City, Singapore — The title says it all.
Mike's Euro Fly Fishing and Travel Blog — A U.S. expatriot's photoblog and journal about fly fishing in several European countries.
Moldy Chum — A sometimes irreverent and always entertaining Weblog by an industry insider.
The Outdoor Weblog — J. R. Absher's hunting, fishing and general outdoors blog.
Ozarks Fly Anglers — Weblog by Ken Morrow, who writes about fly fishing in Missouri, Arkansas, Eastern Oklahoma.
Reel Job Fishing BlogFly Fishing Guide Blog for North Georgia .
Rivers of a Lost Coast — Weblog by the producers of the upcoming movie "Rivers of a Lost Coast" about the heritage of northwest coast steelhead fishing.
Sweaty Waders — The Weblog of Sweetwater Travel and Sweetwater Fly Shop of Livingston, Montana.
The Southern Fly Fisher — Mark Rumph's blog about fly fishing in the southern U.S.
Tales from the Far Bank — Journalist Karl Moffatt's blog about fly fishing in New Mexico and the U.S. west.
TroutUnderground — Tom Chandler's blog about all things trout, written from his home base on California's upper Sacramento.
Urban Fly Fisher — By long-time blogger Alistair Stewart, mostly about his experiences fishing Scotland's River Kelvin.
Warm Fly — Web site and forums for fly fishers interested in bass, bluegill, crappie and other warmwater fish.
WayUpStream — Personal Weblog of Steve Stracqualursi, fly fishing product line director for Patagonia.
Wayward Fly Fishing — Toney Sisk's interesting blog and fly fishing article collection.
WickedOutdoorsy — Blog of the Pale Morning Media outdoors PR firm.

Fly Fishing Magazines

American Angler — A generalist fly fishing magazine based in the U.S.
The Drake — Irreverent, funny, erudite and, oddly enough, a fly fishing magazine.
Fish & Fly — Web site of Fish & Fly magazine, one of the more graphically appealing periodicals in the US.
Fly Tyer — A popular fly tying magazine.
Gray's Sporting Journal
Perhaps the most literate sporting and fly fishing publication available.
Hatches Magazine A popular fly tying magazine Web site featuring videos.
ThisIsFly — A free online fly fishing magazine with a unique sense of style.

Fly Fishing Online Stores and Retailers

Albright Fishing ProductsOnline store for Albright Fishing Products, which sells high-performance fly tackle at discounted prices.
American Fly FishingOnline store for American Fly Fishing Company in Sacramento, CA. The store also operates American Fly Fishing Travel.
The Book Mailer — Online seller of fly fishing books, DVDs, software, flies and gear.
Firefly Outfitters — Downtown Boston, MA flyshop and online fly fishing retailer.
FineFishArtOnline source for fish paintings, prints and images.
Fly Deal Flies
Discount hand-tied flies.
The Fly Shop
— A Redding, CA-based retailer and travel agency that sells fly fishing equipment for trout fishing, freshwater, and sport fishing, fly tying equipment and fishing vacations.
Kiene's Fly Shop — Bill Kiene's popular fly shop in Sacramento, CA.
Leland Fly Fishing Outfitters — Web site and online store for San Francisco Bay area fly shop.
Orvis — Catalog site for the large sporting and fly fishing retailer.
PrimeFlies — Online seller of quality fishing flies and accessories.
Schmidt OutfittersMichigan fly shop and online store established in 1976 and close to the Au Sable, Manistee and Pere Marquette.
Sweetwater Fly Shop — An online fly shop specializing in flies and tackle for all destinations. Located in Livingston, MT.
TroutFlies.com — Fly tying tutorials and online fly store.
Yellowstone Angler — A fly fishing retailer located in Livingston, Montana and serving anglers for Yellowstone Park, the Paradise Valley spring creeks and south-central Montana.

Regional Fly Fishing

Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum A nonprofit, educational organization located in Livingston Manor, N.Y, and dedicated to preserving America's flyfishing heritage.
FlyCurrents.com — Subscription-based Web site for real-time reports on fishing conditions for trout anglers.
InsideSeam.com — Current stream and fly fishing reports from southwest Montana, culled from a variety of good sources.
Ozark Anglers — Extensive information and forum covering Arkansas and Ozarks-region fisheries, including the White River, Lake Taneycomo and Bull Shoals Lake.
TidalFish.com — A mostly east coast U.S. site with active message boards.
Washington Fly Fishing
— One of the largest and best regional Web sites with a very active forum.
Women's Fly Fishing in Alaska — Guided Alaska fly fishing trips and schools for women and girls.

Fly Fishing Products & Manufacturers

AbelHome of Abel Products: reels, rods and bags and other gear.
Charlie's Specialties — Makers of the Total Control Stripping basket and companion pack.
Costa Del Mar — Makers of high-quality sunglasses for fly fishers.
Keone Bamboo Fly Rods — Web site for Danny Heus's custom bamboo rods.
Patagonia
— The fly fishing section of the Patagonia Web site.
Rage All Natural Insect Repellent — Makers of non-toxic, non-corrosive waterproof and sweatproof insect repellent.
Scientific Anglers — The world's largest fly line manufacturer.
Tor Brands — Manufacturers of snap-on strike indicators.
Wonderfurl — Makers of handcrafted furled leaders.
Wood Watercraft — Makers fine hand-crafted drift boats, canoes and long boats.

Conservation, Education and Research

The American Museum of Fly Fishing — Web site of the Manchester, Vermont museum, which contains an enormous collection of art and items of historical interest to fly fishers.
American Rivers
Monitors and helps restore endangered U.S. rivers.
Bonefish & Tarpon Unlimited — Projects and research to support bonefish and tarpon.
Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF)
— Fly fishing conservation and education group.
FishBase — An enormous searchable database on worldwide fish species and identification.
The Nature Conservancy
— A large U.S.-based conservation organization.
Save Our Wild Salmon
— Salmon and steelhead conservation and river restoration.
Trout Unlimited — Web site for the largest freshwater conservation group.
The Wild Salmon Center — Organization for Pacific Rim salmon conservation.
Wild Steelhead Coalition — Wild steelhead conservation for the U.S. Pacific northwest region.

Fly Fishing Literature

New West — Online magazine of news, commentary and literature focused on the U.S. West.


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