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Tip – fishing close to home
Are you taking a staycation this summer, but aren’t sure where you can fish? Opportunities abound, and you can fish nearly anywhere there’s water. Tom Rosenbauer from Orvis walks us through options all around us when we can’t make a trip to the mountains or saltwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTZDfzp3J0&list=PLEXZljM8NmhtGMQuVaaJ9TZq3SZY74R_5&index=1&t=281s
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The True Cast – Is Eight Enough?
Capping the number of caught-and-released fish could solve a lot of problems… and bum a lot of people out. I’m just back from a couple of weeks in England, where I got to fish some fabled chalk streams, like the River Itchen and River Test. It was an interesting trip that got my mind spinning…
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A new approach to fly fishing with NRS
In 2022, NRS released the Slipstream Raft Series, their first raft purpose-built for adventure anglers. Two years and many river miles later, they’re expanding their line of adventure-angling watercraft with the Approach Series, an easy transport package with an emphasis on stealth and access that redefines the limits of where a boat can take you.…
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Tip – hatch basics
To be able to make the most out of your fishing, it is a good idea to learn at least the basics about bugs. Insect hatches are on their way, if they haven’t started already in your area, so take some time to learn about the hatches where trout gorge themselves and hopefully eat your…
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Clearwater Daze
A pair of Great Lakes spey anglers share their love for Idaho’s Clearwater River, its big steelhead, and their support for breaching the Lower Snake River Dams Idaho steelhead are just built differently. They have a special kind of folk hero status in my brain, partly driven by their “Mariners and Mountaineers” reputation. Even the…
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TU and AI
Trout Unlimited is using AI, you know, artificial intelligence. No, it’s not to write this article (nor any others), and no, it’s not to enhance the photos of trout, nor salmon or steelhead (though that’s tempting). Instead, it’s for the benefit of science as well as curious anglers, which is our nature. With TU’s recent…
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A tribute to Chris Santella…
I’m sure he’s already on the ultimate sequel. The fly-fishing world is a little bit less “adventurous,” and quite a bit less “literary” now, because we recently lost one of the purest, most inspiring writing voices the sport has ever known. Chris Santella gracefully succumbed to cancer at the age of 61 on May 23.…