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Chris Hunt

  • Drift boat rules: The Oarlock Warlock

    Call me the “Oarlock Warlock.” Because if you are fishing from the front of my dory, and you start firing casts that land behind the oarlocks (thus cutting off the water for the poor “tail gunner” fishing from the back), one of three things is going to magically happen: 1) You will find the bow…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Fishing dogs

    By Chris Hunt The low grumble in Phoebe’s throat grew into a steady growl, and her floppy ears perked up. She stared across the Little Greys River Canyon in the fading twilight, clearly interested in something across the river. “Hush,” I said instinctively, nursing a gin and tonic and staring into the flames that were…

  • Travel

    Native Odyssey: Utah’s cutthroat slam

    Bonneville cutthroat trout Editor's note: TU's Costa Five Rivers Native Odyssey team visited Utah recently on its trip across America. During our time in Utah, we sought four species of native cutthroat trout. Luckily for us, Utah has just the thing. The Utah Cutthroat Slam is a challenge that costs only $20 and is an…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The Chernobyl Ant

    It's the best time of year for dry-fly fishers. It's "terrestrial season." Hoppers, beetles and ants are the flavor of the day, and high-floating foam imitations are among the best flies out there to chase top-water trout that are looking for big meals during this rare time of plenty. Video of Chernobyl AntHere, Tim Flagler…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Our Water

    There has been quite a bit of video and blog content lately from the "hog farms" of Appalachia—private stretches of carefully managed water planted with ginormous trout that literally turn heads and make one wonder if that's what trout fishing was really like along the Eastern Seaboard before it was completely and totally colonized.(Hint: It…

  • Wild: Salmon River brook trout

    New water is always exciting, and, while I've fished Idaho's Salmon River a lot for steelhead over the years, I'd never poked into the river's extreme upper reaches at the base of Galena Summit, where the Sawtooths spread out to the northwest. My thought—and, frankly, my hope—was to get into some native west slope cutthroats…