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Madison Gallatin TU Banquet February 25th!
The Madison Gallatin TU Banquet is coming up on February 25th. MGTU will be running the outstanding mobile bidding platform from GiveSmart which will allow you to bid on and buy some GREAT fishing gear and fishing trips through your smartphone! We'll post the link to the MGTU banquet microsite soon! Keep an eye out…
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North Platte Lodge – The Land of the Giants
The North Platte River in Wyoming is often called legendary, the proverbial “Land of the Giants”. It’s cliché to say that any river is legendary, but this one really might be. The North Platte is one of only two major rivers in Wyoming that run south to north. Its freestone stretches start in Colorado and…
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Traditions: Tenkara in America
A Dolly Varden in southeast Alaska, caught on a tenkara rod. By Randy Scholfield Boulder, Colorado, thinks differently. While at times mocked for its free-range ideas and hemp-fueled lifestyles, there’s no doubt the “People’s Republic” is booming as a hub for creative entrepreneurs and independent thinkers. Oh yeah—it doesn’t hurt that Boulder is surrounded by…
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Voices from the River: This is why we do it
by Chris Hunt My hands are cold. The wool mittens, even with the little flap that covers my fingers when I'm not using them to tie tippet to the leader or a fly to the tippet, just aren't cutting it today. There's absolutely no reason for me to be here, knee deep i n water…
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Wyoming counties stand up for public lands
A rainbow paints the sky over the Green River on the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. By Tasha Sorensen EDITOR'S NOTE: Within 24 hours of this post Wyoming Senate President Eli Bebout told the Casper Star-Tribune he was killing the bill. This is a victory for sportsmen and…
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Short casts: Lake trout making a comeback, Lake Ontario is too clean, recovery for the Eel?
Lake trout are making a comeback in Lake Michigan. Lake trout, the oft-maligned deepwater char that took over Yellowstone Lake and literally ate the native cutthroat trout out of house and home over the last two decades, is actually making a comeback in some of the Great Lakes, where it's native. While it is, indeed,…
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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…
