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Video spotlight: Fishing for Aggressive Houndfish
Last summer, while walking the beach near the little village of Los Barriles on the Sea of Cortez in search of roosters and jacks, I spied some commotion just past the surf line and quickly made a cast. The baitfish imitation landed quietly in the clear water and as soon as I started the retrieve…
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Video spotlight: Inshore Saltwater Fly Fishing
Blonde sand beaches. Warm, clear Caribbean flats. Soft breezes. Bright sun. Stop me if you're not tired of winter yet, because I can go on. And on. And on. This is the time of year when I toil over the travel sites and search out the best deals for tropical fly fishing retreats. Even getting…
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Video spotlight: Strip…
Damn it's cold outside, right? When these deep freeze "bomb cyclones" dip into the normally temperate climes of the American South and leave us all chilled to the bone, I tend to start surfing the travel sites for great deals to points south. Way south. Tropical south. And that, of course, makes me think of…
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Video spotlight: Diyak
I love do-it-yourself fishing. The challenge of essentially learning as you go on new water has always appealed to me. That, and, of course, I just can't afford to shovel $500 across the cab of a pickup to a guide that often. But there's DIY. And then there's the DIY where you're dropped off on…
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Video spotlight: Tour de Tahoe
Combining fly fishing and mountain biking is certainly nothing new, but I've seen a few videos over the last several months that indicate this "bike-packing" into backcountry fly-fishing destinations is becoming more of "a thing" lately. Video of Tour de Tahoe // Bikepacking and Fly Fishing in the Sierra MountainsThe video above is a good…
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Video spotlight: Jungle Fly Fishing
The primal rainforests of the Amazon basin are slowly revealing their fishy treasures to fly anglers the world over. We're seeing more video footage of everything from golden dorado to the mighty arapaima. But the fish that started it all is likely the decorated peacock bass. Video of Jungle Fly Fishing *TRAILER* Peacock Bass Fishing…
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Video spotlight: Three runs
Russia's Ponoi River might be the last, best place on earth to catch wild Atlantic salmon on the fly in appreciable numbers. And the river's fish are incredibly resilient, largely due to the fact that their habitat is largely intact. The river is home to three runs of salmon (hence the title of the video…
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