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    Remembering Dave Whitlock

    It’s an editor’s worst nightmare to have to write something about the loss of a team member.  But that task is unimaginably more difficult when that person is your role model, inspiration and very dear friend. Dave Whitlock, who passed away on November 23, was among the kindest, most gracious, humble, yet supremely talented, energetic…

  • Gear reviews Trout Talk

    Cool Fishing Shirts, Custom Designed for TU…

    Oshki turns recycled Great Lakes plastic into fashion.

    Oshki turns recycled Great Lakes plastic into fashion. Jackson Riegler wanted to be a marine biologist. Or maybe a scuba diver. He was a kid from small-town Michigan in love with the Great Lakes. Now as a newly-minted University of Michigan graduate, he’s swimming in fashion-industry waters poised to make an even bigger difference on…

  • Trout Talk Climate Change

    Unfishing Season

    Abstaining from fishing doesn’t just happen. There must be a reason. As New Mexico swims through its third fat month of monsoon season, I’ve barely noticed how much water is in our streams. Winter was scary dry, then our shirt-sleeve spring collided with New Mexico’s largest-ever wildfire. Every morning from April to July, I stepped…

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    An angler’s bucket list

    Later in life, a new credo beckons: Get out, before you can't.

    Later in life, a new credo beckons: Get out early and often When I ran a fly shop long ago, I fell into the habit of buying flies on the store discount instead of tying my own. Perhaps not a bad move for someone with my ham-handed tying skills, but since my favorite patterns don’t…