Nick Parish | Current Flow State Fly Fishing
@nickparish.bsky.social
Author, editor, and angler from the Great Lakes, currently ranging near the Columbia River drainage in the Cascadia bioregion.
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Our July/Aug '25 issue is online now (and in member mailboxes soon). Features include a look at 125 yrs of the Blue Band; a Q&A with Tom Verducci, arguably the most respected voice in baseball; and a profile of George Daniel, who is leading Penn State’s iconic fly-fishing program. pennstatermag.com.
Beyond excited my profile of the inimitable George Daniel is appearing as the cover story in this month's Penn Stater! #fishing #flyfishing
Zebra midges are one of my go-to nymphs. They are easy to tie, imitate a bunch of stuff, and are effective in still and sparkling water. Watch this video from Ventures Fly Co., grab their cheat sheet, and then go tie some up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FT...
The Zebra Midge Explained: When, Why, And How It Works
🐟 Want the FREE Zebra Midge Cheat Sheet?Get it here: https://vfc.media/cs-zebra – instant PDF with our go-to sizes, colors, and rigs so you can fish it righ...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Zebra midges are one of my go-to nymphs. They are easy to tie, imitate a bunch of stuff, and are effective in still and sparkling water. Watch this video from Ventures Fly Co., grab their cheat sheet, and then go tie some up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FT...
Finding places to fish can be one of the most daunting parts about getting started fly fishing. In this episode of Katie Burgert's excellent Fish Untamed podcast, she interviews Zig Peacock about his approach scouting high mountain lakes in Utah. www.fishuntamed.com/podcast/epis...
Ep 170: Backcountry Research, with Zig Peacock — Fish Untamed
Zig Peacock (also appearing in episode 137 ) is the President of the Weber Basin Anglers chapter of Trout Unlimited and an avid backcountry angler. In this episode, we talk about what he’s been up to since our last episode and how he does backcountry research, including the books, apps, and onlin
www.fishuntamed.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Finding places to fish can be one of the most daunting parts about getting started fly fishing. In this episode of Katie Burgert's excellent Fish Untamed podcast, she interviews Zig Peacock about his approach scouting high mountain lakes in Utah. www.fishuntamed.com/podcast/epis...
More from B.C.: In Pursuit from Cold Current Studios draws back the curtain on the glory shots of steelhead and how they neglect to show "all the missed grabs, lost fish, and fishless days." After a F3T filled with hooting and high-fives, a recognition of this time unheralded is a welcome tonic:
Fly Fishing for Wild Steelhead | IN PURSUIT (Award Winning Cinematic Short Film)
Social media often showcases our triumphs, but rarely the steadfast dedication that leads to the moment captured. This film explores the journey, highlightin...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM
More from B.C.: In Pursuit from Cold Current Studios draws back the curtain on the glory shots of steelhead and how they neglect to show "all the missed grabs, lost fish, and fishless days." After a F3T filled with hooting and high-fives, a recognition of this time unheralded is a welcome tonic:
More from B.C.: In Pursuit from Cold Current Studios draws back the curtain on the glory shots of steelhead and how they neglect to show "all the missed grabs, lost fish, and fishless days." After a F3T filled with hooting and high-fives, a recognition of this time unheralded is a welcome tonic:
Fly Fishing for Wild Steelhead | IN PURSUIT (Award Winning Cinematic Short Film)
Social media often showcases our triumphs, but rarely the steadfast dedication that leads to the moment captured. This film explores the journey, highlightin...
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM
More from B.C.: In Pursuit from Cold Current Studios draws back the curtain on the glory shots of steelhead and how they neglect to show "all the missed grabs, lost fish, and fishless days." After a F3T filled with hooting and high-fives, a recognition of this time unheralded is a welcome tonic:
Julian Brave Noisecat details the centuries-old rhythms and relationships that define dip net fishing through a history of culture around Farwell Canyon in British Columbia. This is fishing as a lifeway, as a practice of civilization:
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February 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Julian Brave Noisecat details the centuries-old rhythms and relationships that define dip net fishing through a history of culture around Farwell Canyon in British Columbia. This is fishing as a lifeway, as a practice of civilization:
This remembrance of GOAT angling author Gary LaFontaine from Greg Thomas at House of Fly is exceptional. There isn't a fly designer who was more influential on 20th century fly fishing than GLF. And to hear his generous spirit was true to the person on the page makes me cherish his work even more:
Life of Flies: Some Flies Need Lives of Their Own.
The late Gary Lafontaine gave author Greg Thomas an Airhead fly 30 years ago. Last summer, Thomas finally pulled it from a box and fished it on Montana's South...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This remembrance of GOAT angling author Gary LaFontaine from Greg Thomas at House of Fly is exceptional. There isn't a fly designer who was more influential on 20th century fly fishing than GLF. And to hear his generous spirit was true to the person on the page makes me cherish his work even more:
In this week's newsletter: Gary Loomis is trying to fight back against private equity consolidation in fly fishing: www.currentflowstate.com/north-fork-c...
A tale of two fly rods: $100 NFC blanks vs. a $1,570 Asquith
North Fork Composites' Gary Loomis announced this week he's rejected private equity advances, and launched $100 Golden Tickets good for North Fork blanks to help the company grow. The company he founded and sold, G.Loomis? It now charges over $1,500 for its Asquith rods.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
In this week's newsletter: Gary Loomis is trying to fight back against private equity consolidation in fly fishing: www.currentflowstate.com/north-fork-c...
Visit Captain Chris Meyers on his tropical casting island as he breaks down how the pause should work in a proper fly cast. If you've ever seen a metronome used in fly casting (or remember that from The Movie), the reason for that tool is the pause.
February 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Visit Captain Chris Meyers on his tropical casting island as he breaks down how the pause should work in a proper fly cast. If you've ever seen a metronome used in fly casting (or remember that from The Movie), the reason for that tool is the pause.
This is a great book because it's actually honest about how hard it is to a) be a guide b) live up to the brutal expectations of fly fishing media
And for anyone who has dog-eared THE LONGEST SILENCE by Thomas McGuane, pick up CHASING RUMOR. It follows a season of fly fishing in Patagonia, chasing a legendary trout and the stories that grow around it. tinyurl.com/2h6wz73u
February 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
This is a great book because it's actually honest about how hard it is to a) be a guide b) live up to the brutal expectations of fly fishing media
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February 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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This week's video pick is the third and final installment of the Wild Fly smallmouth trip to Michigan, focused on finding smallmouth bass that will eat on the top.
CRAZY Topwater Fly Fishing Action (Bass Feeding like Trout)
Through my link, https://drinkag1.com/wildfly get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and AGZ Sampler to try all the flavors, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome K...
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February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
This week's video pick is the third and final installment of the Wild Fly smallmouth trip to Michigan, focused on finding smallmouth bass that will eat on the top.
This conversation between two Fulling Mill product folks on fish hook design has a big takeaway: There's no standardization in modern fishing hooks.
February 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This conversation between two Fulling Mill product folks on fish hook design has a big takeaway: There's no standardization in modern fishing hooks.
Startup public lands-focused media property @republiclands.bsky.social (run by former Outside mag editor Chris Keyes) totes up the damage done in a year by the new administration:
Checking in on the Chaos Theory
Coal craziness, unconfirmed nominees, roadless forests, and the Bannon-style blitz: why stepping back to track public-lands decisions has never been more important.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Startup public lands-focused media property @republiclands.bsky.social (run by former Outside mag editor Chris Keyes) totes up the damage done in a year by the new administration:
I did not have "Opera Montana-produced 'A River Runs Through It' Production Debuts in Brooklyn in May" on my offseason bingo card but...hell yeah.
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Opera Montana Announces World Premiere of "A River Runs Through It" | MidCurrent
The production, set to debut in September 2026 at the Ellen Theatre in Bozeman, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the novella's original 1976 publication and marks Opera Montana's first-ever commissi...
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February 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I did not have "Opera Montana-produced 'A River Runs Through It' Production Debuts in Brooklyn in May" on my offseason bingo card but...hell yeah.
midcurrent.com/2026/02/02/7...
midcurrent.com/2026/02/02/7...
One of my least thought-through dreams, or, really, elaborate fishing fantasies, involves become a commercial pikeminnow angler in the Columbia.
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
One of my least thought-through dreams, or, really, elaborate fishing fantasies, involves become a commercial pikeminnow angler in the Columbia.
Data doyenne Amanda Shendruk at Not-Ship found some fun research revealing folks' favorite birds to watch. When asked to rank the they got watching certain birds, UK study participants' top three were the Long-tailed Tit, Robin, and Goldfinch. www.not-ship.com/birds-might-...
Birds might help us get through this
The mental health benefits of "joy watching" are what we need right now.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Data doyenne Amanda Shendruk at Not-Ship found some fun research revealing folks' favorite birds to watch. When asked to rank the they got watching certain birds, UK study participants' top three were the Long-tailed Tit, Robin, and Goldfinch. www.not-ship.com/birds-might-...
Due West Anglers summons the immortal spirit of Ed Abbey in response to public sentiment data showing it's no longer considered manly to care about the environment (and, well, presumably a whole host of other stuff too):
Conservation Concept: Too Manly To Care
Has manhood lost its connection to environmental issues?
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February 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Due West Anglers summons the immortal spirit of Ed Abbey in response to public sentiment data showing it's no longer considered manly to care about the environment (and, well, presumably a whole host of other stuff too):
PDXers! See you at F3T this weekend? If you want to meet up beforehand, the CFS group is gonna hang for a few. Make a friend!
Fly Fishing Film Tour pre-show meetup · Luma
On February 7th, a group of CFS pals is hitting up the Fly Fishing Film Tour's Portland stop. The F3T is a stoke-fest, premiering 10+ short films from all over…
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February 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
PDXers! See you at F3T this weekend? If you want to meet up beforehand, the CFS group is gonna hang for a few. Make a friend!
Then read this great essay from Brian Isett in Emergence Magazine: emergencemagazine.org/essay/theia/...
Theia – Brian Isett
Pondering the age-old question his young daughter will inevitably ask—Where did the Moon come from?—biologist Brian Isett uncovers the story of how the Earth got Her seasonal song.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Then read this great essay from Brian Isett in Emergence Magazine: emergencemagazine.org/essay/theia/...
Go out and look at the Exploding Tree Moon tonight.
Halfway to spring under a snow moon
Exploding trees, the Michael Jordan of pikeminnow, fly fishing with a baby on board, Michigan smallies, and more in this week's newsletter.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Go out and look at the Exploding Tree Moon tonight.
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Canadian postage stamps are superior to American postage stamps. This was issued in 2014.
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Canadian postage stamps are superior to American postage stamps. This was issued in 2014.
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
Lousing up a bunch of nice smallmouth habitat to dam the above and below sections. Not the way to find that world-record fish in the Big C, or grow others.
A proposal to install a transmission cable into the Columbia River poses unacceptable risks to an impaired river.
🔊We urge you to write USACE at CRT_EIS@usace.army.mil before 2/4 & tell them you oppose the “Cascade Renewable Transmission Project”!
Learn more: www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Reg...
🔊We urge you to write USACE at CRT_EIS@usace.army.mil before 2/4 & tell them you oppose the “Cascade Renewable Transmission Project”!
Learn more: www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Reg...
January 30, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Lousing up a bunch of nice smallmouth habitat to dam the above and below sections. Not the way to find that world-record fish in the Big C, or grow others.
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kids, if you've never seen Best In Show, there is no better way to grieve one of the bravest and funniest bitches to ever do it. RIP 😭
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
kids, if you've never seen Best In Show, there is no better way to grieve one of the bravest and funniest bitches to ever do it. RIP 😭
Ignorance, or AI slop FAFO? DU continues flailing: ryandbusse.substack.com/p/shameful-c...
Ducks Unlimited sends a promotional sticker of a…mandarin duck?
DU’s work has benefited a lot of waterfowl species but the mandarin duck (an Asiatic duck often kept in aviaries) isn’t one of them.
Conservation communications should be done by real people, with real natural history knowledge.
DU’s work has benefited a lot of waterfowl species but the mandarin duck (an Asiatic duck often kept in aviaries) isn’t one of them.
Conservation communications should be done by real people, with real natural history knowledge.
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Ignorance, or AI slop FAFO? DU continues flailing: ryandbusse.substack.com/p/shameful-c...