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TROUT Tip – beyond trout
Sure, trout are a blast to catch, but at times it’s thrilling to chase other fish species. This video walks through when is the best time to target pike and muskie. Hint, it’s now. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Fishing Video Lessons And to add on, let’s learn more about where to find these fish. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly…
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Learning to fly fish via art
Art, not words, is what dominates this book. And for good reason. Steven Weinberg is a dedicated angler who put his art skills to use in The Fly Fishing Book: An Artful Guide to Angling. Through illustration and painting, he brings fly fishing to life guiding readers through the basics, through history, to lifestyle and beyond. In part…
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The True Cast – It’s all about the bread.
I just drove with my son, Paul, from Johns Island, South Carolina, to Baldwin, Michigan, so we could be at our family cabin for the opening of Michigan’s trout season. That’s kind of a family tradition I have sorely neglected over the past 20 years or so, but I’m now rekindling with Paul. I’m doing so because I fondly remember how important it was for me when I…
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Keeping Alaskan women on the water
Trout Unlimited Alaska’s Women on the Water (WoW) brings together women for free, hands-on fishing trips and fly tying events. WoW launched in 2023 to create opportunities to build and share fly fishing skills in a supportive environment and connect like-minded women with a passion for the outdoors. These trips have been incredibly popular and filled up quickly. To expand our…
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TROUT Tip – using small flies
At times big flies can spook fish, especially on calm waters. These tips from Orvis walk you through using longer, finer leaders and smaller flies to catch those wary trout. See All Orvis Learning Center Videos
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Trout Unlimited names inaugural “Conservation Towns” list
Five rural communities from across the country are staking their futures on conservation In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout…
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Places worth protecting: George Washington/Jefferson National Forest
The George Washington/Jefferson National Forest is 1.8 million acres of outdoor mecca in Western Virginia, and a Brook trout fishing heaven.
Gnats! Of course there would be gnats. It wasn’t even April, yet here they were; swarming around my head as I sat on my truck’s tailgate lacing up my wading boots before a hike into one of my go-to native brook trout streams. Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good, and fortunately…
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