It’s Been a Nice Run

After 5 years and a couple of,823 posts right here at MidCurrent, it’s time for me to show the reigns over to somebody new.

I began with MidCurrent again in 2020, earlier than the pandemic. Marshall Cutchin, writer emeritus and then-owner of MidCurrent, employed me because the Information Editor. I used to be in command of discovering and sharing the goings-on of the fly fishing world.

If you understand simply how small a group fly fishing is, it’s exceptional that we generate a lot information. Roughly 8 million individuals fly-fished in 2023, the final 12 months for which information is obtainable. That features everybody who went on a single-day float whereas on trip, and the trout bums who clock near 300 days a 12 months on the water.  Of these 8 million, let’s say half are invested anglers who repeatedly fly-fish, purchase rods, journey, tie flies, and devour fly fishing content material.

That 4 million individuals are so all in favour of new gear releases, public land battles, enhancing their abilities, tying flies, and conservation, is unimaginable. The variety of jobs our little group helps is frankly overwhelming, and I’m fortunate to be a part of it.

To all of the readers who repeatedly tuned in to MidCurrent for the previous 5 years—thanks. To everybody who left feedback (even the imply ones, as a result of they’re good for fun typically), thanks. Thanks for studying what I wrote, supporting the remainder of the MidCurrent workforce, and serving to us obtain our objective of being the go-to supply for fly-fishing information.

I’m additionally sincerely grateful for everybody who learn my gear opinions these previous few years. MidCurrent gave me the prospect to dig into gear greater than ever earlier than, and as a gear junkie with a major problem, it was unbelievable.

The remainder of the MidCurrent workforce has some unbelievable issues in retailer. This publication will probably be doing nice issues within the close to future, and I stay up for consuming all of it with you.