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Short casts: Teaching women to fly fish; grayling in the Arctic Refuge; gift guides galore, and more
Photo courtesy of the Portland Press Herald Where would TU be without volunteers like Evelyn King? Good question. A board member of TU's Sebago (Maine) chapter, King founded Women Fly Fishers of Maine, and began introducing women to the sport, helping them with everything from casting to fly selection. She's a fly fishing evangelist for…
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Pebble Mine footprint – PR changes nothing
Cartoon by Michael O'Meara The past several months the Pebble Partnership, who aims to develop the highly controversial and widely opposed Pebble Mine in Bristol, Bay Alaska, has been touting their new mine plans to Alaskans in hopes of winning them over with new "smaller " and "safer" design claims. Alaskans see through the rhetoric…
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Video spotlight: When to use small flies for trout
We've all been there. We come across a nice rising trout occupying a small stretch of calm, clear water, and we know it's going to take the right cast with the right fly for this wary critter to strike. For me, it happened ages ago on the South Fork of the White River in northwest…
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Voices from the River: New tricks
Tight-lining a tandem set of nymphs through a bucket on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia with his 11-foot Euro nymph rod, Mark Taylor comes tight to a 14-inch rainbow trout. (Sam Dean photo.) By Mark Taylor Fishermen never stop learning, but we are also victims of…
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Conquering the blood knot
The blood knot was one of the hardest knots for me to master on the water, and the fact that it is virtually necessary makes it an important knot to get your head around. I have big fingers, so inticate work with monofilament lines and tippets is tricky enough. The blood knot requires a bit…
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Voices from the River: Sermons in stones
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Habitat work on Crowningshield property withstands flash flood
By Erin Rodgers Trout Unlimited’s work this field season on the Crowningshield property in Heath, Mass., was put to the test this fall when a torrential rainstorm dumped 5 inches of water on the region. Two bank-stabilizing wood jams put in place to improve trout habitat withstood the deluge and did exactly what they were…