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Video spotlight: Hank Patterson and the Practicaster
When you craft a practice rod for fly fishing, you want to have a real professional review the product, right? So, it's no surprise that the Orvis' Practicaster—a miniature practice rod designed to help people work on the various aspects of fly casting—landed in the hands of the renowned Hank Patterson. As is common, Hank…
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Trout Tips: The windshield never lies
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available for online purchase and overnight delivery. I recently took a long drive through Kootenay, Banff and Jasper national parks along the border with British Columbia and Alberta. Throughout the entire drive, delicious, glacial-tinged trout water paralleled my path. Trouble was, save for the…
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Video spotlight: High Altitude Lines
We've all done some questionable things for fish. We've toted float-tubes into the backcountry on the word of a Google maps photo, only the find the "lake" choked with lily pads and all of three feet deep. We've wandered up blue line in the Gazeteer only to realize, after too many miles to turn back,…
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Voices from the River: ‘What were you thinking?’
by Chris Hunt There's a great little run on the South Fork of the Snake that's only wadable when water managers lower the river in the fall, after harvest is all but done and the demand for downstream water subsides a bit. During high summer, with the river literally the potential energy for Snake River…
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Gear test: Rodmounts Rod-Up System
Here in Wisconsin starting on one stream in the morning, meeting for lunch somewhere else, hitting another stream in the afternoon, and then heading to yet another river for the evening rise is not uncommon. All of that requires driving around, and can involve multiple instances of taking down and then reassembling rods, or trying…
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Video spotlight: Trickle
Want to feel small and insignificant? Take a look at this film below that follows a single trickle of water as it rises from vapor in the Pacific Ocean, moves west as part of a cloud over the Kitimat Range of northwestern British Columbia and then falls as a single snowflake high in the mountains.…
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Fly tying: Craft-fur Clouser
I love fishing Clousers. I hate tying with bucktail. I can never seem to get the bucktail material to lie flat and stay flat. Most of my Clousers tied with yellow and white bucktail have splayed tails and likely swim like nothing a fish predator has ever seen. Video of Craft Fur ClouserThanks to Tim…
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