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Featured Articles

Famous Thoreau Quotation Is Pretty Fishy

Jan Harold Brunvand explores the truth behind the oft-repeated Thoreau quote.

An overhead illustration of two trout in a stream. Different sizes of rocks are clustered together like carbon dioxide bubbles in a glass. Green trout with black markings cast shadows as they swim; one is eying a red fly at the end of a line. It's signed

Little Gifts This Christmas

Harry Briscoe shares his holiday cards from noted artist John Betts.

Pioneers and Pioneering: The Allure and Early Days of Saltwater Fly Fishing

Jerry Gibbs examines the early history of saltwater fly fishing.

The Haslinger Breviary

In 2016, the American Museum of Fly Fishing published a translation of the iconic Haslinger Breviary text by Dr. Richard Hoffman in its Spring issue…

Anglers at War

Author John Mundt recounts the angling opportunities- and lack thereof- in World War I and II. Hear first-hand accounts of fishing among barbed wire…

H. M. Bateman: Cartoonist Extraordinaire and Fisherman for Life

James D. Heckman Introduces us to the prolific cartoonist.

The Governor Aiken Bucktail: Official Fishing Fly Of The State Of Vermont

On 5 May 2014, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law Bill H. 589, An Act Related to Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping, which included the…

Ernest Hemingway’s Hardy Fairy

Part of the privilege of working for a museum is the constant discovery—or rediscovery—of an exciting piece of history and access to learn more about…

Mary Orvis Marbury And The Columbian Exhibition

A wonderful look inside the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition and the story behind the Mary Orvis Marbury panels.

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