Finatical Flyfishing Blog

From time to time we like to introduce you to some of the amazing women in flyfishing. Meet Lily Bertram! Lily grew up in western North Carolina and when she had the chance to work for a friend of her Aunt’s in Punta Allen she jumped at it. She spent...

Meet Amanda Bauman From time to time we like to feature some of the amazing guides and leaders out there.  Amanda Bauman is a born and bred Idaho native. After leaving to attend college in Montana, she was lured back to the Wood River Valley by the...

From time to time we like to introduce you to some of the amazing women in flyfishing today.  The Green River near Pinedale, WY is a well-kept secret and so is Rusti Christensen, the only female guide in the area.  Rusti served in the Navy for 4 ½ y...

From time to time we like to feature some of the amazing women in flyfishing today.   Meet Patty Reilly! Patty has built a resume that is arguably one of the most impressive in the industry. She’s been guiding for 35 years in addition to teac...

From time to time we like to feature some of the amazing women in the flyfishing industry. Kris Millgate is an angler by passion and a journalist by profession. After working for a decade in TV news she founded Tight Line Media in 2006. “I hope to ma...

Years ago I had the opportunity to serve on the founding board for Colorado Women Flyfishers. At the time, I was a recent college graduate who had just relocated to Denver. Like so many volunteer opportunities, serving on this board brought much more...

From time to time Finatical Flyfishing likes to focus on some of the amazing women in flyfishing today. We’d like to introduce you to Joni Kamerzel. She and her husband Kellan own two businesses in Bozeman, MT and are truly live the outdoor flyfishin...

From time to time we like to feature some of the great women in the flyfishing industry today. Meet Julie Meissner, based in Stanley, Idaho. Julie was born and raised in central Oregon by a father who was the ski school director at Mt. Bachelor and ...

One of the missions of Finatical Flyfishing is to highlight some of the women leading the fly-fishing industry today. There are some fabulous guides, women who own their own shops, and others in various segments of the industry. One segment of the in...

Blog by Steph Albano, June 2021 About this time each year, bamboo rod makers from across the country come together on the Henry’s Fork. If you visit Harriman State Park you can ‘meet the makers’, cast a few of their rods, and learn more about how th...

The Flyfishing Film Tour (F3T) aims to inspire us each year with amazing destinations, epic photo’s, anglers and catches. Then there is the raffle. Now that you are in the midst of a flyfishing frenzy, you’re hoping to win that amazing Seychelles tri...