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Fly tying: The Casual Dress
I love fly patterns that incorporate a bit of inventiveness, or include some new tricks that I never considered at the vise. Polly Rosbourough's Casual Dress is one of those patterns. Not only is a fairly simple endeavor to tie a few of these small streamers up, but the tying itself incorporates some nifty procedures…
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Native Odyssey: Touring a molybdenum mine in Colorado
Editor's note: TU's Native Odyssey team is in Colorado, where the group of young anglers toured a molybdenum mine. Mining takes a toll on native trout throughout the West—some 40 percent of all headwater streams are impacted in one fashion or another by abandoned mine runoff. Molybdenum is the chemical element with the atomic number…
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Native: Partnership working on upper Gunpowder brook trout
By Don Haynes When people think of the Gunpowder River in Maryland they invariably think of the 14-mile tailwater section flowing from Prettyboy Reservoir to Loch Raven Reservoir in Baltimore County. But above Prettyboy, from Hoffmanville to Southern York County in Pennsylvania, there are some 60 miles of the Gunpowder mainstem and tributaries that comprise…
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Hot weather closes several Montana rivers
The Jefferson River is one of several southwest Montana rivers closed to fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight until conditions approve. If you're planning to fish one of several southwest Montana rivers this week, you n eed to get up early and be done by 2 p.m. According to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks,…
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Video spotlight: The Big Eat
There's some great video footage out there of fish hitting flies. Violent rises to subtle sips, trout are the champions of the "take," although I've seen some pike attacks that make me wonder if there's a video yet to be shot featuring these voracious predators. The advent of drone videography, of course, has taken fly-fishing…
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Fly tying: Clipping, cleaning and stacking hair
One of the toughest fly-tying skills for new tiers is using the hair-stacker that comes with the beginner tying kit to actually stack hair for flies like elk-hair caddis, stonefly patterns, Stimulators and the like. I know when I first tried it, I ended up with quite a mess—nothing like the instructional video promised. Video…
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Conservation Funding: Interior and Related Trout Unlimited Letter to U.S. House appropriators, opposing harmful riders to Interior, Environment and Related Agencies spending bill