{"product_id":"volume-22-issue-4-fall-2025-copy","title":"Volume 23, Issue 1 (Winter 2025)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003eUniversal Tip-Truths of Fly Fishing | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003eKirk Deeter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"\u003eAfter nearly five decades of casting across continents and chasing everything from trout to tarpon, the author distills a lifetime of lessons into five timeless truths that transcend species, geography, and gear. These are the haymakers — the simple, fundamental tips that hold up anywhere on earth. Less about catching more fish, and more about why it matters, this is a story about the people, places, and perspective that define the soul of fly fishing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"\u003eWhere the Silence Starts | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003eBlake Clarkson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"\u003eIn an era where every river bend seems geotagged and every trout photographed before release, Blake Clarkson ventures in the opposite direction — into the unmarked spaces between blue lines. Through mud, alder thickets, and digital maps, he finds not just fish, but something rarer: the quiet clarity that comes from earning discovery the hard way. A meditation on mystery, restraint, and the last places still untouched by noise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"\u003eFirst Light, First Steelhead | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003eMike Mercer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"\u003eA gray morning, a rising river, and a young angler on her first winter steelhead trip. What begins as a cold walk through fog and alder becomes something deeper — a story about patience, mentorship, and the ancient rhythm of life and death in the salmon rivers of the Pacific Northwest. When the strike finally comes, it’s more than a fish that’s hooked. It’s a moment of awakening — to the wild, to the sacred, and to the enduring mystery of water and renewal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003eMy Problem with Permit | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003eWill Rice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: #212121;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"\u003ePermit fishing isn’t for the impatient — or the emotionally fragile. In this brutally honest and darkly funny essay, Will Rice confronts his long, complicated relationship with the world’s most maddening fish. From missed shots to bent hooks, from Ascension Bay heartbreaks to philosophical pep talks with sunburned guides, Rice explores the line between obsession and acceptance — and what it really means to love a fish that refuses to love you back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; caret-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003eAnd much more!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fly Fusion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42657747664967,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0069\/6490\/4007\/files\/SUB_COVER.jpg?v=1774977951","url":"https:\/\/store.flyfusionmag.com\/products\/volume-22-issue-4-fall-2025-copy","provider":"Fly Fusion","version":"1.0","type":"link"}