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Video spotlight: Return to Abundance
Years ago, in my former life as a newspaper journalist, I lived on California's North Coast in the shadows of coastal redwoods, shielded from the rest of the country by a near-constant marine layer and the understanding that, at any moment, one of the few roads into the region could be covered in mud and…
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Video spotlight: Kau Tapen
The windswept steppe of the Rio Grande River drainage of Tierra del Fuego is on my bucket list. I've been fortunate enough to travel to both Argentina and Chile, but I haven't made it this far south... yet. This southern-most region of South America is truly a fly fisher's nirvana. With massive sea-run brown trout…
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Video spotlight: Grand Cascapedia
A few years ago, when the Outdoor Writers Association of America had it's annual conference in Lake Placid, NY, my buddy Brett Prettyman and I were lucky enough to fish for and catch Atlantic salmon. OK, so they were of the land-locked variety, and plenty small. The biggest might have been 10 inches long. But…
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Video spotlight: Convergence
My friend Travis Swartz is a pretty good fly fisherman, contrary to beliefs of many, who know him only as world-renowned fly fishing guide and culinary school graduate Hank Patterson. Travis is Boise filmmaker, and the mind behind the kitschy and ever-popular Hank Patterson videos that poke fun at guides, clients and, well, fly fishers…
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Video spotlight: Headwaters Haven
My driveway looks like a high-mountain pass this morning. I pushed and tossed fresh powder for about an hour, and was grateful when a neighbor showed up to help clear the last quarter of the pavement with his snowblower. But I'm dug out, and my head is anywhere there isn't snow. I'm good and ready…
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Video spotlight: Yakutia
Jako Lucas has been fly fishing the world and making movies about it for some time now, but his latest effort about the massive fish of Yakutia might be one for the ages. The region most folks only know exists on the playing map of the boardgame "Risk," is plenty fishy, as you'll see in…
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