April 2008

Features

The Epic Salmon of Russia's Kola Peninsula

The Epic Salmon of Russia's Kola Peninsula

A once-in-a-lifetime trip to the best salmon river in the world

Mud Hole Browns

Mud Hole Browns

Don't ignore the dark water for big trout

Six Big Smallie Streamers

Six Big Smallie Streamers

Flies guaranteed to catch smallmouths all across the country

Gear Review: 13 Budget and Backup Rods

Gear Review: 13 Budget and Backup Rods

$200 can buy a lot of rod these days

Essay: After the Fire

Essay: After the Fire

A trip into the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness finds fish and new life amid the ashes

New Gear

New Gear

March 2008: Bauer's Rogue Reel, new tying vises and material

Departments

Editor's Notes

Letters

More steelhead, canoe anchors, worm balls and the lives of fly rods

Ask FR&R

Mastering the strip-strike, how to recycle your leaders and calculate a fish’s weight.

Short Casts

Updating the TU's stream-access debate, contest info and more.

Books

Robert Behnke on trout and John Barr on flies

The Traveling Angler: High Lonesome Ranch

De Beque, Colorado

Conservation: Who Hates Trout Rivers?

West Virginia is soiling some of the East's finest wild-trout water

10-Minute Ties

Soft Hackle Little Yellow Stone

Sporting Life

A trip down Tennessee way