Barracuda Circle

My mom used to tell me stories about swimming with massive schools of juvenile barracudas when she was young, but I could never imagine what it would be like until I saw this photo. Although I’ve never heard of barracudas attacking swimmers, they certainly have the teeth to cause some serious damage and being surrounded by this many of them has got to be pretty unnerving!

Photograph by David Doubilet

via National Geographic

The Ugly Stik

There are few fishing rods as easily recognizable as the Shakespeare Ugly Stick. They’ve been around for 30 years and are the number one selling rod of all time. I own four of them myself, and they have never let me down. I’ve called the Ugly Stik the best rod in the world, and I’ll stand by that. I’ve put these rods to the test on multiple species and the Ugly Stik has always come out on top, see for yourself!

If you don’t have an Ugly Stik, heres you chance to save $25 off the regular price of an Ugly Stik Tiger from our OpenSky store! Just leave a comment below to let us know you are interested and we’ll pick a winner later this week! And if you already have an Ugly Stik, no problem! You can use that $25 toward any other item in our shop valued over $50!

Catch Magazine Issue 8

If you didn’t get your fill from This Is Fly today, maybe the latest issue of Catch Magazine will do the trick!

A Young Man and His Fishing Hit List

This young man has knocked a ton of game fish of his laundry list of species. Amazing work, I’d love to hear some of the stories behind those catches!

Spear Fishing Is Easy

A little too easy…

via NY Times