Featuring Patagonia head honcho Yvon Chouinard and Arturo Pugno, one of the last remaining practitioners of 'pesca alla Valsesiana' an ancient Tenkara-like form of fly fishing from Northern Italy that involves a 15-foot cane rod (homemade obviously), lines meticulously braided from the tail of a stallion, and simple flies hand-tied flies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdXIHsGgIQM
Day Eleventy-Three. We're heading into week five (we think) of lockdown in South Africa and while we're going just as loopy as anyone else with the cabin fever and the same-sameness of each day, we know it's the right thing to do. Fortunately, to entertain, inspire and amuse us, there's a shitload of great stuff [...]
All you need is just one more excuse You put up one hell of a fight I want to hear your very best excuse Never felt this much alive TRACK 4: THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES BEAT 2: THE AQUARIUM "Right at the beginning of our first afternoon session on the river beat we [...]
Channeling a beloved ‘90s metal album, Tudor Caradoc-Davies visits Jurassic Lake Lodge in Patagonia and loses his mind. "I think about Faith No More’s 1995 album King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime, a lot. I only became acquainted with it in 2003 when I spent a year in Germany washing dishes, playing rugby [...]
"I think it was the surfer Miki Dora who once said that a local is simply someone who doesn’t have their shit together enough to travel. Amen to that. I’ve been working away on a few environmental fly fishing films with Tony Czech (www.tonyczech.com), which are exclusively supported by Patagonia. Along with quite a few [...]
In issue 10's Troubled Waters we featured The Blue Heart of Europe, the project backed by Patagonia aimed at saving the rivers of Bosnia and Slovenia from hyrdo-electric dam schemes that harm the eco-system, drive climate change, lead to the extinction of species and displacement of communities. The full Blue Heart film is now available [...]
WILD SALMON...they are in shit. Our issue 15 Troubled Waters focuses on the plight of wild salmon, who's at fault (hint: human greed) and what you can do about it. On the last point, it helps to get to grips with what is happening. As such, along with Gone.Outdoor and Wavescape, The Mission is co-hosting [...]
"Within the first two weeks of this trip I had my fill of rainbows. Rainbows grabbed streamers and took to the air, they yanked dry flies under by the dropper nymph and devoured ugly dry flies in splashy rises. Like a paperback novel or a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship, they provided constant sparks of excitement, [...]
In this excerpt from the revised second edition of Simple Fly Fishing, Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard details why - in an increasingly complex, crowded, consumption-obsessed, high-tech world - it’s more important than ever to keep it simple, stupid. Especially when fly fishing. 'The state of the art in angling these days is defined by “sports” standing [...]
Leonard Flemming got an advance pair of Patagonia’s new River Salt boots made in collaboration with legendary US boot brand, Danner (remember their River Gripper wading boots from the 80s?). Up mountains, through rivers and across estuaries and beaches, Leonard put them to the test for three months. Here’s his take from issue 13 of [...]
