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What is a good age to start “gearing up” a young angler?
This is one of the questions I get asked most often, and it’s a great one because it revolves around mentoring and introducing young people to fishing and the outdoors. In all of the fishing, traveling, writing and photographing I’ve done over the years, I’ve never found a more noble nor more rewarding pursuit than turning newbies…
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Sight for sore eyes
Three tips to help you manage fishing tiny flies better.
Three tips for better fishing with small flies Winter fishing means midge fishing. Well, in many places throughout the country midges actually comprise about 50 percent of an average trout’s diet any time of year, so it’s good to know how to fish them, dry or wet. Either way and any season, however, midges are…
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The five elements of a great fishing day
Experience all five of those things together on the same day, and that’s my “trophy” experience.
One of the special things about fishing is that it matters to different people in different ways for different reasons. While we all might agree that any day on the water is a great day, I’ve come to believe there are five certain elements that, when added together, equal the best and most memorable fishing…
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Finding an old friend on a new hunt
If you board a jet in Anchorage, Alaska and fly southeast for three hours you can land in Seattle, Washington. Fly three hours southwest and you end up in Adak, a remote island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain. Adak is equidistant from Seattle and Tokyo. It is 274 square miles of treeless tundra that’s constantly battered…
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Trekking into a Tongass wilderness
The Forest Service's Roadless Rule makes this possible: Amazing fishing for trout and salmon in an old growth forest Like others before it, the trail eventually petered out. And, like we had done before, Chris Hunt, Sam Davidson and I huddled to talk about our options. Someone said, “The road should be that direction so…
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Cast killer — the most common mistake anglers make
Don’t take the life out of the cast I know many good fly casters, and all of them have a little hitch in their giddy up. I sure do. My hitches just change every now and then. Usually after I sort one out, I develop another. But there’s one overriding, subtle goof that separates those…
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TU’s Dr. Rene Henery is an ‘Angler Driving Change’
Dr. Rene Henery is an expression of all that’s come before him, and all that will follow. From deep behind the battle lines of conservation Rene invites us to consider what it is that divides us and how we can come together. Alongside Trout Unlimited, he seeks to drive change by protecting the fragile waters…
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