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2 days ago | flylordsmag.com | Max Inchausti

Welcome back to Artist Spotlight, a Flylords original series where we dive into the artists that bring life to fly fishing off the water. In this installment, we sit down with South Florida native, David Danforth. We first caught up with David back in 2018 and have continued to watch him grow into a mainstay in the fly fishing scene. His bold expression of color and sharp lines brings an energetic and modern take to the pursuit we all love.

2 days ago | flylordsmag.com | Max Inchausti

You’re on the river when you hook a nice fish, you get it to the net, fumble with a tape measure, get a semi-close estimate, and release the fish as quickly as possible. We’ve all been here before. If you’ve fished long enough, you know the struggle of trying to tape a fish that won’t stand still, all while trying to do as little harm to the fish as possible. But what if there was a better way to measure and weigh fish—no scale, no tape measure, just AI.

3 days ago | flylordsmag.com | Spencer Durrant

On an old episode of The American Sportsman, Lee Wulff and Curt Gowdy flew up to Labrador and fished the Minipi River for giant brook trout. The whole episode is an absolute gem (and worth watching just to see Wulff tie a fly without a vise), but there’s one line that Gowdy says that’s stuck in my mind since I first watched this episode a few years ago. I can’t remember it word-for-word, but Gowdy says that all anglers go through an evolution of sorts.

6 days ago | flylordsmag.com | Spencer Durrant

A few weeks ago, I was out fishing with two friends when we got into a great blue-winged olive hatch. There were bugs everywhere, the fish were going nuts, and I remember thinking something to the effect of, this will be an easy day. Four hours later, I hadn’t caught a fish. No one else had, either, but I was having a hard time not taking it personally. I’d switched fly patterns out a half-dozen times, lengthened my leader, and tried every dry-emerger combination I could think of.

1 week ago | flylordsmag.com | Andrew Braker

Andrew is the Ethics, Etiquette, and Education Editor on the Flylords team. He’s a Marylander turned Coloradan who loves chasing striper and trout alike. Andrew believes that the fly fishing community is a unique group of people that form very close relationships with the fishing spots they love, and the species they love to catch— creating a group of people that are uniquely passionate and willing to fight for the health of these environments and the fish that live within them.