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Fly tying: Attaching dumbbell eyes
For fly tiers who like big streamers and saltwater patterns (count me in this group—the bigger the pattern, the easier to tie, in my opinion), dumbbell eyes can present a challenge, mostly because, no matter how many times we "figure-eight" the tying thread around the eyes and the hook shank, the eyes, with enough pressure,…
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Fly tying: JC’s Electric Steelie Stone
Being a western angler, I'm not terribly familiar with the steelhead flies used in Great Lakes tributaries. Most western steelhead patterns are purple or pink or some color variation that just looks loud and gawdy. Higher up in the steelhead drainages, like here in Idaho, it's easier to get awa y from the "eggy" and…
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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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Embrace A Stream Challenge: ‘Give Where You Fish’
HELP LOCAL TU PROJECTS WIN $50,000 IN CASH PRIZESHelp local TU supporters, members and volunteers like you improve rivers across the country and unlock $50,000 in cash prizes to support their work!The Embrace A Stream Challengeis a fun, week-long online competition encouraging all of us to “give where you fish” and support local projects led…
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Recovering America’s native optimism
by Chris Wood Al Perkinson looks like a California surfer dude. He’s got wavy long hair and the languid movement of a gracefully aging athlete. He is also the guy who built the Costa del Mar brand, helped TU start the Five Rivers program, and now runs marketing for Simms. I was talking with Al…
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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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Trout Unlimited Alaska Hosts Chinook Panel
By Dave Atcheson Most Alaskans are painfully aware of the recent downturn in king salmon runs on many of our streams. The numbers of returning Chinook salmon have remained alarmingly low for the last several years, prompting fishing closures in many areas, including the previous season’s closure of the entire Southeast region. It was with…