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Video spotlight: Slow Down the Fall
The video below may seem a bit poorly timed, what with spring springing all over the country, and its contents dealing largely with fly fishing in the fall. But, just the other day, on blustery March afternoon, I lucked out and managed to get into a really prolific blue-winged olive hatch on the South Fork.…
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Video spotlight: Our water
There has been quite a bit of video and blog content lately from the "hog farms" of Appalachia—private stretches of carefully managed water planted with ginormous trout that literally turn heads and make one wonder if that's what trout fishing was really like along the Eastern Seaboard before it was completely and totally colonized.(Hint: It…
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Video spotlight: Urban Fly Fishing Berlin
First, forgive the subtitles, unless you speak German, of course. Often we tend to forget that fly-rod worthy fish can live just about anywhere—the staff in Arlington, Va.'s headquarters office has turned chasing carp, gar and snakeheads in the Potomac into something of an obsession. And we know that great urban angling exists among the…
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Video spotlight? How to fish dry flies on lakes
First a disclaimer. I'm not a very enthusiastic lake fisherman. I should be, because lake-dwelling trout are generally bigger, burlier and stronger than their river-dwelling brothers and sisters, simply because they don't have currents to fight and food is situated throughout the water column, from the bottom all the way to the surface. And that's…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing the Zhupanova River
Kamchatka's trout streams are simply magnificent. Sadly, I only know this by reputation, not direct experience. I had an opportunity to go last year, but I had a conflict and, painfully, had to turn it down. As you'll see in the film above, the Zhupanova is loaded with big rainbows, and they'll eat streamers and…
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Video spotlight: Ascension Bay Permit Tournament
The little fishing village of Punta Allen sits on sandy spit on the edge of Ascension Bay along Mexico's Yucatan Penninsula. It was a government grant to the locals to be used for lobster fishing. But, as with any fishy destination boasting permit, bonefish, tarpon snook and a host of other game fish, the fly…
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Video spotlight: Barramundi Monsters
I cast flies to barramundi in the tropical north of Queensland several years back. It was rainy and windy and I'd heard so many horror stories about inshore saltwater crocodiles, that I kind of psyched myself out. I never connected to a barramundi, but I did manage some jungle perch in a crystal-clear high-mountain stream…
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