MidCurrent is proud to welcome Phil Monahan as our Editor-in-Chief.
Phil joins the MidCurrent crew after a 14-year run with Orvis, the place he launched the Orvis Fly Fishing Weblog. That weblog performed an influential function in fly fishing media, and Phil oversaw its constant success. In the summertime of 2017, Phil printed the ten,000th submit on Orvis Information, which he says “felt like an actual milestone.”
Then, as a part of the Orvis Dedication, Phil conceived your entire Comply with the Water marketing campaign, which concerned a serious video undertaking and microsite, devoted to educating folks about Everglades restoration.
Earlier than his time with Orvis, Phil edited American Angler for ten years, ultimately changing into that publication’s editorial director. He had a hand in producing Fly Tyer, Saltwater Fly Fishing, and Warmwater Fly Fishing magazines as properly. This allowed Phil the prospect to satisfy “just about everybody within the fly-fishing business,” as he places it.
It is a homecoming of types for Phil, since he authored the “Ask the Consultants” column for MidCurrent between 2009-2010.
Phil is a local of New Hampshire, which is the place he discovered to fly fish. When he went house to get a Grasp’s diploma on the College of New Hampshire, he and his brother Brian “acquired severe” about fly fishing, which led to Phil exploring all corners of the Granite State. As Phil says, he fished “such unfabled waters because the Isinglass River and Stonehouse Pond.” He took common journeys to Maine to chase landlocked salmon and brook trout on dry flies, as properly.
Then, throughout summers whereas engaged on a PhD (that he by no means acquired) Phil spent summers guiding in Alaska and Montana. Of that point, Phil says, “I used to be capable of fish with anglers of all ability ranges and in all types of conditions—surrounded by brown bears in Alaska, surrounded by Winnebagos in Yellowstone Nationwide Park, and surrounded by extremely finicky trout on the spring creeks of Paradise Valley. Better of all, I acquired to be on the water virtually on a regular basis, in among the most stunning settings on the planet, and I acquired to hang around with fellow fly fishermen.”
Along with his work at American Angler and Orvis, Phil has additionally freelanced for publications like Grey’s Sporting Journal, Fly Rod & Reel, Outside Life, USA At present, and Sport & Fish. His first guide, The Orvis Fast-Begin Information to Fly Fishing, is due out subsequent August from Lyons Press.
Phil’s wealth of expertise in lots of areas of fly fishing, in addition to his glorious abilities with the written phrase, might be an unlimited asset to the MidCurrent viewers transferring ahead.
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