Image credits

Why this page exists

Most of the photographs on this site are licensed under Creative Commons terms that require attribution. Attribution is a condition of the license, not a courtesy, so it gets a page rather than a footnote.

What these images are, and are not

Every photograph here is ambient — a shoreline, water, a dock, gear on a surface. None of them depicts our equipment, our fishing, or the author, and none is presented as evidence of anything.

No stock photograph is ever used to stand in for a specific product. Where we have no photo of a model we recommend, the page shows a labeled placeholder instead, because a similar-looking picture beside a named product implies it depicts that product. Product photography, where present, comes from the retailer’s own image service.

If you are a photographer listed below and would like a credit corrected or an image removed, tell us and we will act on it.