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ISSUE 4 // AUGUST 2026

The holy grail rises

Christiaan Pretorius finds phenomenal dry-fly fishing for permit in Xcalak

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Contents

01

The editor's cast

Andrew Flitcroft celebrates a milestone birthday with a Highland adventure

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02

The holy grail rises

Christiaan Pretorius finds phenomenon of dry-fly fishing for permit in Xcalak

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03

Flies of The Flyfishers’ Club

A peek inside the collection of an historic London establishment

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04

Why wild Atlantic salmon still need us

Salmon cannot survive every mistake we make, says Dagur Fannar Ólafsson

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05

Lodge Life

Graham Hayward: life as a guide in some of the planet’s finest destinations

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06

Traveling riverside blues

Monte Burke introduces a friend to trout fishing in the Catskill Mountains

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07

West Coast Chronicles

Our approach and tactics for summer steelhead, by Willie Holmes and Alan Penner

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The cult of the Hog

The Hedgehog is one of trout fishing’s most overlooked flies, claims Rob Denson

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The man behind the rod

We quiz Eoin Fairgrieve on the concept, pressures and science behind rod design

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10

Fisherman’s Larder

Josh Crumpton celebrates catching rare Gila trout with a Christmas shakshuka dish

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11

The Subtle Take

Polarising sunglasses: Don Stazicker discusses how this simple piece of kit will catch you more fish

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12

Dear Doc Tangle

Got a knotty fly-fishing problem? Drop our agony uncle a line

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