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Trout Tips: Eliminate Pressure
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight delivery. Try not to put a kid in a position where that first cast will be the only one that counts. Experienced fly guys are so used to situations where that first drift of a dry or swing of a…
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Trout Tips: Play the Banjo
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," which is available online for overnight delivery. Ever get gunk and weeds on your tippet or leader? Of course. We all do. But rather than using your fingers to try to pick the mess of your fly, weight or knots connect the leader to…
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Trout Tips: Floating fly boxes
Foam fly boxes float. If you want to see your flies again, make sure fly box floats, too. Several years ago, I was steelhead fishing on Idaho's Salmon River. I'd spent the week leading up to the trip tying flies and gearing up. Steelhead on the Salmon were—and still are—a fish that came calling on…
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Trout Tips: Turn over rocks
When I was a kid fishing with my grandfather on bigger water, the first thing he always did was flip over rocks as we walked along the river. He'd give each rock a good look, and he'd point out squiggly little bugs to me and my brothers and cousins. "See that?" he'd ask, pointing to…
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Trout Tips: The stream not taken
Often, the best fish live in the waters others won't walk far enough to reach. The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online now for overnight delivery. Fish places others don't. There's a difference between improving as a fly fisherman and improving your fishing. Spending time on technical, heavily pressured tailwaters can…
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Trout Tips: Finding the perfect fishing lodge
TU volunteer Steve Zakur found the right place for his adventure a couple years ago. I'm always a bit apprehensive about dropping big money on a far-flung fishing adventure to some distant lodge in the middle of nowhere. There are just so many things to consider, and the price and location are just a couple…
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Trout Tips: Tenkara in winter
Tom Sadler fishes Tenkara for winter brookies in a small Appalachian trout stream. I've tried everything to keep ice from accumulating on my fly rod guides during cold winter fishing trips. I've tried the paste and the sprays, and while they might work for a few minutes, they'll eventually fail. It's gotten to where I'll…
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