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Video spotlight: Big Pike on a Fly
The Canada-heavy series The New Fly Fisher (the show will occasionally come south of the border to highlight American fisheries, too) is one of my favorite fly-fishing shows to enjoy, largely because of episodes like the one below. I first ventured north to chase pike on the fly a little over a decade ago, and…
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Video spotlight: Into the Wild
When the float plane disappears into the ether and all you're left with is the pile of gear you unceremoniously tossed from the hold, it takes a minute to realize that you're actually "out here," on the margins of survivability. You're alone (not lonely—that's different). You've got nothing but time to kill before that plane…
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Video spotlight: Rising Trout
From the "This'll make you feel good" department, we bring you the short video below. Say what you will about tarpon leaps, pike bites, bonefish pulls and bass on poppers—and I like all of these things, too—there's just nothing better than taking a rising trout on a dry fly. Video of Rising TroutYes, I'm jaded,…
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Video spotlight: Viva Patagonia
For a lot of us, the opportunity to visit Patagonia comes but once. And, no matter how matter-of-fact you are ... no matter just how practical and "normal" your existence is, it will change you. Its rivers will become your fly fishing life blood. Its vistas will be your foundation for comparison for years to…
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Video spotlight: How to make a single-handed spey cast
I'm not a big steelhead guy—I'll go once in a while, usually for the company and not so much the fishing, which is generally pretty slow. So I rarely find myself needing a ton of "big-water" casting skills. But one skill I learned while chasing steelhead is the one RIO's Simon Gawesworth describes below—spey casting…
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Video spotlight: Blue Heart
At Trout Unlimited, we usually celebrate when dams come out and rivers are made whole again. We've been part of some of the greatest reconnection efforts ever seen, from the Elwha in Washington to the Penobscot in Maine. Removing dams in our country is ... fashionable, if not vital for healthy river function and the…
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Video spotlight: Orvis’ 50/50 on the Water
When Orvis announced a few months back its effort to bring "gender parity" to the fly fishing world, it seemed to me to be, as much as anything else, a good business decision. Women make up half the populace about about 30 percent of the fly-fishing market these days (that's up from about 25 percent…
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