Rising Tide Anglers

The 2026 Fly Fishing Film Tour (The F3T ) tickets are on sale now!

Learn more about the event and buy your tickets in advance here: ccanh.org/2026-fly-fishing-film-tour-new-hampshire/

When: Wednesday 4/8
Where: Dover, NH hosted by North Country Hard Cider
The Cause: To support CCA NH and other partners in the fishing conservation community. There will be raffles, curated films, food and friends!

The evening at the tasting room kicks off at 4pm with hard cider, food, Casting Competition (5pm), raffles, and more! Films start at 6:30pm.

Double your donation with a DOUBLE HAUL ticket to receive a 16oz YETI mug thanks to the generous support from YETI

See you there!

Zoom in close and the story changes.
Blues, purples, and armor-plated texture that doesn’t show from the bow. Stripers might be built to brawl, but they shine like treasure when the light hits just right.

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Handling large fish this time of year means keeping them on or below the water’s surface to keep their gills pumping and reduce recovery time. Such an honor shaking hands with an individual who’s likely migrated up and down the Atlantic coast for around 15 years…

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Pick your poison. Chartreuse for the bold, foam for the surface eat, or something dark and slender when they’re being picky. There’s no wrong answer. Tie it on and let it hunt.

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Scanning slicks, current lines, and nervous water. Every clue matters: a quick flash, the shape of a push, one bird flying differently than the rest.

When you’ve spent enough time reading this bay, you stop hoping the fish will show up and start knowing when they will.

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Homewaters.

From the mouth of the bay to the edge of the sea, this is the place that shaped how we fish, how we guide, and how we think about the responsibility that comes with both.

We don’t take it for granted—not the fog on a morning tide, the skyline we navigate by, or the stripers that return to these currents year after year.

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Maybe a fly change is what the moment calls for. The water’s right, the fish are around, but something’s off.

Stripers can key in on the smallest details—color, profile, movement—and when they do, it pays to match what they’ve decided is on the menu. Sometimes it’s subtle. Sometimes it’s foam and flash. But when you figure it out, it clicks.

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Throwing big flies tight to the jetty, hoping to draw something out of the shadows. Stripers will sit tight to structure on days like this, waiting for the chance to ambush a baitfish that gets too bold or blown off course.

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Capt. keeping his eyes on the horizon, looking for blow-ups and pushes that might give away the post-storm bite.

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Capt keeping his eyes on the horizon, looking for blow-ups and pushes that might give away the post-storm bite..g

There’s a rhythm to mornings on this water—one we never get tired of. Whether we’re sighting stripers on the flats or picking apart structure with big flies, it all starts here.

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The rods stay rigged. The fly box stays open. And every day brings a different puzzle to solve.

Whether we’re sight-casting on the flats or swinging big flies through current, we lean on the gear that works—sharp hooks, clean leaders, and our confidence fly patterns.

The fish make the rules. We just try to play along.

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