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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Brookies
Fly fisher and guide Bridget Fabel has a fairly robust collection of fly fishing videos—she's a cheerful camera personality with some solid angling skills. And she fly fishes with her cats. Yes. Cats. Video of A Dozen Brookies On the Fly! Fly Fishing With Cats For High Country Brook Trout!A lot of us have "fishing…
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Video spotlight: Refuge
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in the news again, as the oil and gas industry—sensing more friendly political winds— takes another shot at the effort to sink oil wells into the permafrost north of the Brooks Range. A couple of summer ago, I topped the Brooks Range on the Dalton Highway and got my…
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Video spotlight: Hank Patterson’s Camp Hawgadawgadaa
You know what you need on a dreary Tuesday morning, other than a piping cup of strong (maybe too strong?) coffee? A dose of Hank Patterson, that's what. And, almost as if Travis Swartz read my mind, here comes the trailer to the new Hank Patterson web series, "Camp Hawgadawgadaa." Video of Camp Hawgadawgadaa TrailerIn…
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Video spotlight: Blizzards and Browns
Here in the West, winter is settling in, even though it's not yet Thanksgiving. And while a lot of anglers will be stowing their gear for the season, a few die hards will brave the wind and the cold and the snow to chase migrating brown trout. Video of Blizzards and Browns - Winter fly…
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Video spotlight: Fly fishing for cats
Count me among the many who didn't think it could be done, at least not on a regular basis. I've managed to catch hard-head catfish on a fly in the Lower Laguna Madre and in the mangrove swamps near Pine Island in Florida. The former was on crystal-clear flats and I was sight-fishing to foot-long…
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Video spotlight: Fly fishing the Bolivian Amazon
The things we do in order to cast to fish. We've all likely layered up in fleece and Gortex and wandered off to a snowy, ice-rimmed river to cast to trout. Others of us have put thousands of miles on our cars or trucks just to get to one special spot. Still others have jetted…
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Video Spotlight: The Daily Show dives into Great Lakes challenges
How do you take a fairly mundane subject (for most folks) like the health of the Great Lakes and make it interesting?Have the folks at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah tackle it.In this segment, Daily Show “correspondent” — yeah, he’s actually a stand-up comedian — MIchael Kosta connects with Dan Egan to, ahem, dive…
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