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Video spotlight: Giant trevally take birds out of the sky
David Attenborough providing play-by-play of giant trevally taking down a tern? Yes, thank you very much. This video has been making the rounds on social media and more than one angler has commented it is time to tie some bird flies. Video of Bird Vs Fish - Blue Planet IIAnd you thought a pike or…
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Fly tying: Less Mess Morrish Mouse
I haven’t spent a ton of time fishing mice. Other than a few nights looking for big browns — bushwhacking through the north woods with a underpowered headlamp just to lose most of my flies to unseen trees — my experience is pretty much limited to chucking these bugs into lily pads for largemouth. I’ve…
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Stream protection effort in PA, featured in new film, gains traction
By Rob Shane Pennsylvania boasts more than 86,000 miles of rivers, streams and creeks, second in the United States only to Alaska. That’s three-and-a-half trips around the earth. Thirty trips from Los Angeles to New York. It’s five times more than the 10 largest rivers in America—combined. These 86,000 miles provide clean drinking water to…
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Voices from the River: Return of the Sandy River
TU's Dean Finnerty fishing the Sandy River as a teenager. By Sam Davidson Ten years ago, on a river revered for its huge wild steelhead, more than a ton of dynamite reduced a 47-foot high dam to rubble. The dam was named after a whistling rodent and the river after a big sandbar early European…
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Video spotlight: Spatsizi
I've been missing my little girl lately—she's off on her own adventures now after graduating from high school last spring. But we had some adventures in years past, and this past summer, we met on a little creek high in Idaho's Caribou National Forest for some fishing. The two of us have always had a…
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Short casts: Roadless battle over?; EPA cuts; salmon sex, and more
Some of America's wildest lands should staty that way if a legal decision last month in Washington has any staying power. The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia threw out the state of Alaska's last-ditch effort to undermine the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects some 50 million acres of public lands, including Alaska's…
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How big will you go with a click-and-pawl?
I spent most of the past few weeks fishing only with click-and-pawl reels. That was mostly just for kicks. I have nothing against disc-drag reels (What are you kidding? I love disc-drag reels), but every now and then I get into palming the reel myself. And let’s face it, a click-and- pawl reel sounds beautiful…