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Native Odyssey: Volunteering with Stream Watch on Alaska’s Russian River
Editor's note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited is sending four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. Starting July 5, these students will explore the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay…
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New gear: Snowbee XS Plus fly line
For new anglers, the numbers and weights attached to most fly-fishing jargon can be a bit much. Mabye there's a simpler way of doing it. The folks at Snowbee, a UK company that's making some inroads here in the U.S., has launched two new fly lines under the XS Plus brand that it claims match…
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New gear: Tacky Flydrophobic fly box
One of the biggest challenges with waterproof fly boxes is that they're waterproof on the outside ... and on the inside, too. How many times have you opened your waterproof fly box a week or so after you last closed it, only to find the flies you used on your last outing busy rusting out?…
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New gear: RIO Kahuna LT strike indicator
Nymphing with indicators can be a pretty base sort of fly fishing—your cast is sometimes more of a heave rather than a truly clean delivery, and sometimes, because of the way indicators add wind drag, casts don't always land where you want them to. Thanks to RIO, though, that awkward nymph cast might be a…
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Return of the Yellowstone cutthroat
Diana Miller with a migratory Yellowstone cutthroat caught in late June in the Thorofare area of the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Dave Sweet photo.
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New gear: Simms Tributary waders
Those of us with kids have all been there. Do we spend the money on quality waders for the young ones so the whole family can enjoy a day or a season on the water? Or do we go with a lesser-known brand, one we don't trust, and kind of roll the dice? In a…
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New gear: Maxxon XPW 240
Like a lot of fly fishers, I'm enamored by the idea of a boat, but I'm not ready to be a serious boat owner—a drift boat, for instance, feels like it traps me into fishing just a couple of stretches of water close to home (and, for the record, I have nothing against drift boats).…
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