There are feats in fishing that few anglers ever accomplish. In Virginia, catching a tarpon on fly rod is arguably the toughest. “And I don’t know that you’d get much of an argument,” said Kendall ...

When the talk centers on fly fishing for shallow-water tarpon, most anglers conjure up those picturesque images of skiffs being poled across the flats in the Florida Keys. The truth is that same scene ...

Ken Baldwin is a Writer/Editor for Fishing On SI, where he writes stories about fly fishing and the lifestyle that surrounds it. His writing and photography have appeared in Men's Journal, Catch ...

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The sky dawned orange then red as we bounced and splashed along the Yucatan jungle road north of Cancun. Doves and pigeons lifted from the nearby scrub and fluttered past the glowing backdrop. I ...

For Fitz Coker, records were made to be broken by other anglers. That’s why he released what would have been the largest tarpon ever caught on a fly rod. Coker, of Key West, caught a tarpon that, ...

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Walking into a fly shop and perusing the available rods in the rod rack points towards a tremendous number of rods in the 9 foot-category. We are in trout country so it makes sense that the ...

Famed fly fishing writer John Gierach once wrote a book called Standing in a River Waving a Stick. Well, fly fishing looks a lot like that. And the stick in question is a fly rod. It’s the rod that ...

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