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A small mountain creek tumbles over rocks in fog below an old stone arch bridge
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West Fork of the Pigeon River at the triple arch bridge on NC 215, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. Photo: Warren Reed, U.S. Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Photographs of real places come from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and the National Park Service under public-domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses, and each is credited under the photo where it appears. Every image on the site is a real photograph; the AI illustrations used until 21 October 2026 have all been replaced. Spot a mistake or want a photo removed? Tell us.

Photographs of places (362)

Photographs of international waters (317)

Photographs of waters in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and the lodge countries, each checked to show the named water. The last 4 are representative photographs, shown and labelled as such on pages that have no photograph of their own.

Photographs of anglers (6)

Public-domain photographs by the USDA Forest Service, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, used on the home page, the learning pages and link previews. Each caption names the real place it shows.

  • A woman wades a forest stream and casts, a loop of fly line in the air behind her (Fly fishing near the Davidson Campground, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina)
    Photo: Cecilio Ricardo, USDA Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Three anglers, a woman and two men, wade a forest stream together and rig their fly rods (Fly fishing near the Davidson Campground, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina)
    Photo: Cecilio Ricardo, USDA Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman wades the Firehole River and casts a fly line across the current (Fly fishing the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jim Peaco, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Two anglers, a woman and a man, wade the Firehole River; she is casting while he fishes his line (Fly fishing the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jim Peaco, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman casts a fly rod from the bow of a canoe while a companion sits behind her, autumn tundra and mountains beyond (Fly fishing from a canoe at Tangle Lakes, Alaska)
    Photo: Craig McCaa, Bureau of Land Management Alaska, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman rows a drift boat while a man stands in the bow and fishes (Fly fishing from a drift boat at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Photographs of fishing, gear and water (35)

Used on the home page, the learning guides, gear kits, tools, community profiles and the brand page, in place of the AI illustrations shown until 21 October 2026. Public-domain works by the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service and US Department of Agriculture, and photographs shared by their authors under public-domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA terms. Each caption names the real place it shows.

  • An angler fly fishing in mist rising off the Madison River at sunrise, the water lit gold (Fall fishing at sunrise on the Madison River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Two anglers wade a bend of the Ruby River between sagebrush banks and cottonwoods (Fly fishing the Ruby River below Ruby Reservoir, Montana)
    Photo: Lance Cheung, US Department of Agriculture, public domain, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman in waders, a landing net on her back, casts a fly line across a riffle on the Crooked River (Fly fishing near Post Pile Campground on the Crooked Wild and Scenic River, Oregon)
    Photo: Greg Shine, Bureau of Land Management, public domain, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A char lies in a rubber landing net in clear water, a small tenkara fly at the corner of its mouth (An iwana (Japanese char) caught on a tenkara rod, the fly at the corner of its mouth)
    Photo: Asakumo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Fog lifting off the Madison River on a summer morning, pines along both banks (Morning fog on the Madison River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman wades the edge of Meadow Creek and casts, willows and a burned forest behind her (Fly fishing Meadow Creek in the Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana)
    Photo: Brandan W. Schulze, US Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler in a fishing vest holds the fly line at his reel as water drips from it (Fly fishing the Madison River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Neal Herbert, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler in hip boots wades a clear river and casts, a loop of fly line unrolling behind (Fly fishing the Sava Bohinjka, Slovenia)
    Photo: Ziga, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler wades a broad riffle on the Madison River and casts, forest and meadow beyond (Fly fishing the Madison River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Neal Herbert, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler wades the river below pale bluffs and lays a fly line across the current (Fly fishing at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler cradles a cutthroat trout in the water over a landing net before letting it go (Releasing a cutthroat trout at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler with a daypack reaches a fixed-line tenkara rod out over a pool between boulders (Tenkara fishing on Wilson Creek, Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A small hand-tied tenkara fly with a red thread head, held in a fly-tying vise (A hand-tied tenkara fly (kebari))
    Photo: 天唐龍, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman demonstrates a fixed-line tenkara cast on a forest path, the line stretched out in front of her (A tenkara casting lesson near Wilson Creek, Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A mountain creek spilling over smooth rock ledges into small pools under a forest canopy (Wilson Creek, Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A small wild trout rests in an angler's open palm above the creek (A small wild trout caught tenkara fishing on Wilson Creek, Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman with a daypack and a tenkara rod readies her line on a rhododendron trail (On the way to Wilson Creek, Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Open fly boxes holding trout, warmwater and saltwater flies (Fly boxes with trout, warmwater and saltwater flies)
    Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler stands on a boulder at the edge of a fast forest stream and fishes the run (Fly fishing the Salmon River, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon)
    Photo: US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman in waders and a sun hat wades a broad river and casts, bluffs on the far bank (Fly fishing at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman rows a drift boat while a man stands in the bow and casts (Fly fishing from a drift boat at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler wades the Deschutes River and casts, dry canyon slopes behind (Fly fishing the Deschutes Wild and Scenic River at Macks Canyon, Oregon)
    Photo: Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Two women practise fly casting together on a lakeside beach, one guiding the other (A women's fly-casting class at Claytor Lake State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler stands knee-deep in a calm lake with the rod bent, playing a trout (Fly fishing Grebe Lake, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A largemouth bass held by the lip on the grass beside a fly rod and reel (A largemouth bass caught on a fly rod)
    Photo: RenR67, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Hands hold a bonefish just above the shallow water of a sand flat before releasing it (A bonefish about to be released over a shallow sand flat, United States)
    Photo: James LaFontaine, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • The South Fork of the Snake River braiding around wooded islands below canyon walls and mountains (The South Fork of the Snake River, Idaho)
    Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An angler eases a drift boat off its trailer into the river (Launching a drift boat on the Beaverhead River, Twin Bridges, Montana)
    Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A small USGS stream gaging station with an antenna on its roof under a cloudy evening sky (A USGS stream gaging station on the Minnesota River at Lac qui Parle Dam, Minnesota)
    Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman stands on a bluff looking down on the braided channels of the South Fork of the Snake River (Above the South Fork of the Snake River, Idaho)
    Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Pale morning dun mayflies beside the empty shucks they hatched from, on a pale surface (Pale morning dun mayflies and their shed shucks, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Rows of beadhead nymph flies in a foam fly box (Nymph flies in a fly box)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Fog drifting over the Firehole River around a large boulder, pines on the far bank (Morning fog on the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Two anglers, a man with a landing net and a woman in a sun hat, wade the river and fish side by side (Fly fishing at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A fly-tying vise holding a hook, with thread and a strand of flash tied in (Tying a fly: securing the thread and flash)
    Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Page banners (23)

The photographs at the top of the community, veterans, waters, destinations, flows, directory, account and other pages, added on 21 October 2026. Real, candid photographs from Wikimedia Commons: US federal works in the public domain and photographs released under public-domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses. Each banner names the place and credits the photographer under the photo.

  • An angler in waders fishes a boulder-strewn mountain stream in early spring woods (Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing veterans at Rapidan Camp, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia)
    Photo: N. Lewis, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Two women in waders cast fly rods side by side in a broad, clear Alaskan river (Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing event in Alaska (BLM My Public Lands Roadtrip))
    Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A young woman wades a shaded creek holding a fly rod while a companion fishes upstream (Fly fishing the Davidson River in the Davidson River Campground, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina)
    Photo: Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A westslope cutthroat trout lying in a wet landing net just above the water (A westslope cutthroat trout landed during the Yellowstone Fly Fishing Volunteer Program at Grebe Lake, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A hydrologic technician in a cable car lowers a current meter into a winter river below snow-covered mountains (USGS hydrologic technician measuring streamflow from the cableway at the Snake River streamgage near Moran, Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park)
    Photo: Nathan Jacobson, U.S. Geological Survey, public domain, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • The Snake River winds through autumn aspen and pine below the jagged Teton Range (Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming)
    Photo: M. Nall, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A broad Appalachian river bends through bare spring woods and farm fields below a long ridge (South Fork Shenandoah River and Massanutten Mountain from an overlook in Shenandoah River State Park, Virginia)
    Photo: Antepenultimate, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A lone fly angler wades a dark, slow northern river lined with spruce and birch (Fly fishing on the Äkäsjoki river, Finland)
    Photo: Heikki Immonen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A worn footpath leads through a rail-fence gate to a clear spring creek below sagebrush hills (Henneberry House Beaverhead River fishing access, Montana (BLM))
    Photo: Sarah Holm, Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Seen from above, one angler rows a drift boat while another fishes from the bow on a broad river (Fly fishing the Rogue River from a drift boat, seen from the pedestrian bridge at Grants Pass, Oregon)
    Photo: Rob7 24, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A cork-handled fly rod and reel lie in streamside grass next to a just-caught rainbow trout (A rainbow trout from the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, beside a fly rod and reel (released))
    Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Two anglers in waders and wading boots gear up at an open car beside a mossy rainforest river (Two anglers getting ready to fish the Queets River, Olympic National Park, Washington)
    Photo: C. Bubar, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A woman instructor shows a student how to reel in line on a fly rod in a birch forest (Fly casting instruction during Outdoor Week at the Campbell Creek Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska)
    Photo: Bureau of Land Management Alaska, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A man in waders stands on a boulder beside a roaring falls below snow-streaked mountains (Delta Wild and Scenic River, Alaska)
    Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A rainbow trout with a fly in its jaw is held just under the surface in a gloved hand (Rainbow trout from the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana)
    Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A wader-clad angler stands in tall grass at dawn studying a slow bend of river (Fly angler at dawn on the East Gallatin River near Belgrade, Montana)
    Photo: Mike Cline, CC0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Rows of beadhead nymphs and streamer flies lined up in foam slots (Fly fishing nymph patterns (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie))
    Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • One person rows a drift boat while an angler stands and casts on a choppy river (Fly fishing from a drift boat on the Green River, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming)
    Photo: Tom Koerner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Low sun and mist light a forested river canyon with the river glinting below (The Blackfoot River, Montana (BLM))
    Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A still desert pool mirrors rimrock, a boulder and autumn willows (West Little Owyhee Wild and Scenic River at Anderson Crossing, Oregon)
    Photo: Greg Shine, Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • An aerial view of a dark river bending through snow-covered forest toward distant mountains (The Madison River and Gallatin Range after a snowstorm, Yellowstone National Park)
    Photo: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A small mountain creek tumbles over rocks in fog below an old stone arch bridge (West Fork of the Pigeon River at the triple arch bridge on NC 215, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina)
    Photo: Warren Reed, U.S. Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A young man standing in a creek demonstrates line handling to a young woman beside him (Fly fishing instruction in the Davidson River Campground, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina)
    Photo: Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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