https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXqBbhPYIdE Andy Szofran, a member of the USA World Championship casting team is shown here. He finished in seventh place in the accuracy part of the 2026 championships, his first…

Here's a training video of Whitney Gould taken shortly before the 2026 World Fly Casting Championships. Whitney went on to win three of the six events in the championships, took…

https://youtube.com/shorts/JKNadLuS1s0 It's rare to see a fundamentally sound stroke in fly casting videos. This is what a sound stroke looks like when casting at various angles to the ground, right…

The Madison and Firehole Rivers should have been closed outright to fishing at least a week ago. Yet even today both have only "hoot owl" closures in place...  

Most area stillwaters are seeing damselfly emergences at the moment. Fish relish these flies—both nymphs and adults. The adults aren't always easy for fish to capture, but if you witness…

Callibaetis mayflies have begun their seasonal emergences on local stillwaters. They are the longest running mayfly hatch of the year in the Yellowstone area, beginning in May and running until…

When a dry and warm winter carries over into a dry and warm spring, it's rarely good for the rivers. Here are water flow and temperature charts for the Madison…

Given the changeable weather in Yellowstone in the spring, it's not uncommon for the rivers and fish to get "shocked" by water temperature changes. I've written about this previously, in…

The Yellowstone area is blessed with a great abundance and variety of world-class trout waters. Many of the smaller streams place great demands on stealth and casting ability, but yield…

Salmonflies have begun their yearly emergence in the Yellowstone area. The origin of their common name is pretty clear when looking at the abdomen color of this specimen.

I’m a firm believer that experience and knowledge play key roles in our fishing success. They give us a leg up on, say, the rank beginner, whose experience and knowledge…

Here's the casting stroke of S.M., a longtime guide and expert angler. This is a pretty typical "chicken wing" movement pattern, a very common stroke impairment, characterized by primarily pivoting…

It's been a few years since I analyzed Karlie Loftice's casting stroke (Karlie Roland in the earlier video; she married in the interim). At that time, she had just begun…

T.R. has a wealth of angling experience, both in freshwater and the salt. He's a great example of an experienced angler with serious flaws in his casting stroke. This is…

Brant Oswald is an exceptionally fine angler and guide from Livingston, Montana. He’s been involved in the fly fishing business in various capacities for decades, and currently spends most of…

Peter Hayes, the great Australian angler, instructor and competition caster, stopped by recently for a visit and a lengthy casting session. I hadn't seen him for several years, and while…

Simon Chu is a fishing guide currently splitting his time between his home waters of New Zealand's South Island (Simon is a native Kiwi) and the waters surrounding Bozeman, Montana.…

Not many angling books survive for over three hundred years, but our local library has one such volume—The Anglers Sure Guide (sic). The photo above shows the title page, and…

Riseforms are ephemeral. Their typical lifespan is between three and six seconds. Despite such ephemerality, riseforms can be extremely informative and useful to us as anglers. They help us make…

Rebuilding a casting stroke is an interesting process. Here's Tim Schulz's entertaining and informative effort to rebuild his own, under the watchful eye of School of Trout instructors. https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/learning-cast/7716066