MidCurrent is proud to welcome Phil Monahan as our Editor-in-Chief.
Phil joins the MidCurrent staff after a 14-year run with Orvis, the place he launched the Orvis Fly Fishing Weblog. That weblog performed an influential position in fly fishing media, and Phil oversaw its constant success. In the summertime of 2017, Phil revealed the ten,000th publish on Orvis Information, which he says “felt like an actual milestone.”
Then, as a part of the Orvis Dedication, Phil conceived your complete Following the Water marketing campaign, which concerned a significant video undertaking and microsite, devoted to schooling individuals about Everglades restoration.
Earlier than his time with Orvis, Phil edited American Angler for ten years, ultimately turning into that publication’s editorial director. He had a hand in producing Fly Tyer, Saltwater Fly Fishing, and Warmwater Fly Fishing magazines as nicely. This allowed Phil the possibility to fulfill “just about everybody within the fly-fishing trade,” as he places it.
It is a homecoming of kinds for Phil, since he authored the “Ask the Specialists” 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 residence to get a Grasp’s diploma on the College of New Hampshire, he and his brother Brian “obtained critical” 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 nicely.
Then, throughout summers whereas engaged on a PhD (that he by no means obtained) Phil spent summers guiding in Alaska and Montana. Of that point, Phil says, “I used to be in a position to fish with anglers of all ability ranges and in every kind 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 obtained to be on the water virtually on a regular basis, in among the most stunning settings on the planet, and I obtained 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, Out of doors Life, USA In the present day, and Sport & Fish. His first ebook, 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, will likely be an unlimited asset to the MidCurrent viewers transferring ahead.
