A Reel, Read as Design
Ari ’t Hart’s fishing reel invites a closer look at the objects we usually take straight to the water.
What the Designer Sees in the Water
For Setchu founder Satoshi Kuwata, fishing offers a way of noticing change, and another perspective on making clothes.
The River Goes to the Opera
Fifty years after Norman Maclean’s novella, Opera Montana brings its story of family and fly fishing to the stage.
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Five things from the world around fly fishing worth noticing this week.
The Field, Reconsidered
Barbour has preserved the language of British field clothing for generations. norbit asks which parts are still useful and what should evolve.
Carp For The City
No mountain backdrop required. CarpSlam turns an overlooked fish and the river running through Denver into a conservation engine.
Old Fishing, New Clothes
DAIWA PIER39 looks back to the logic of 1980s fishing gear and asks how it might live inside a contemporary wardrobe.
The Fly Shop Adds a Tap
A taproom inside a fly shop sounds like a novelty. The more interesting idea is what happens when specialist retail becomes somewhere people want to stay.
The Things We Bring Home
A stone picked up beside a river has no logo and little value to anyone else. Perhaps that is exactly why we keep it.
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Five things from the world around fly fishing worth noticing this week.
Twelve Pockets and a Down Vest
SOUTH2 WEST8 × NANGA × SUBU turns the fishing vest into winter outerwear.
What Happened to the Bugs?
The Salmonfly Project is turning anglers into citizen scientists to understand what is happening beneath the surface of the Upper Snake.
Fisherman in Paris
With AIGLE by SETCHU, Satoshi Kuwata asks what fishing clothing might look like if utility and tailoring started from the same place.
You Guys Have Nothing to Do With Fly Fishing
Purple Mountain Observatory and Db entered fishing as outsiders. That may be exactly why GONE FISHING is interesting.
Making a Wretched Mess
In West Yellowstone, a festival built around art, music and fly fishing suggests what the future of fishing gatherings might look like.
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Five things from the world around fly fishing worth noticing this week.
The River Is Getting Wider
Tales from the outdoors. began with products. Now it is widening into a platform for the people, places, objects and ideas shaping the culture around fly fishing.
How Grandpa’s Fishing Bag Became a Modern Creel
A childhood hand-me-down used on fishing trips around Mt Hood became the reference point for a modern creel built for the river and beyond.
Double Vision: Gyotaku, Carp and the Wiesent
On the Wiesent in Franconia, a traditional Japanese fish-printing technique became the starting point for Yodel Fishing Club's Double Vision graphic.