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Video spotlight: Catch and Cook Fresh Fish
When I was a kid, the idea of catch-and-release fishing was simply foolish. Why put a perfectly good dinner back in the river? And, of course, I and my brothers and cousins were encouraged by our grandfathers to harvest our limit—fresh trout fried up on the grill back at camp was part of the experience.…
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Video spotlight: Handling fish responsibly
Handling fish once you've caught them has become a touchy issue (pun intended), and rightly so. The #KeepEmWet movement has been great for educating anglers on proper fish handling and release techniques, and now, as you'll see below, the fly fishing industry is getting involved in the effort to promote responsible handling and release of…
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Video spotlight: Life of a Guide
There was a time when I thought being a fishing guide would be about the coolest existence a guy could experience. That all changed one rainy Father's Day weekend some 15 years ago when renowned guide Rod Patch floated me and my wife down the Cardiac Canyon reach of the Henry's Fork. From bouncing the…
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Video spotlight: Coastal Chrome
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a huge steelhead guy. I love to chase big ocean-going rainbows as they come back home to Idaho and prepare to spawn, but sometimes, the reward is slim. Frozen fingers, frozen toes and few, if any fish, to show for it leave me wanting. Video of…
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Video spotlight: South—The Road Trip
New Zealand's South Island is known for its off-the-charts brown trout fishing, and for most of us outside of Kiwi borders, seeing is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure (if that) that generally involves parachuting in for a week, maybe two, and sampling a small number of rivers. But what if we had a camper van, a raft…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Bass in Tough Structure
First, let's just get this out of the way. Conway Bowman is probably the coolest fly fisher I know. Who else could stand atop a Yeti cool in the bow of a wobbly bass skiff and cast flies on a sinking line to bucketmouths in brutal structure? And this is when he's not chasing mako…
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Video spotlight: Avoiding Spawners
Give the folks at Redington some credit (again!). Not only is the company preaching the Gospel when it comes to protecting spawning fish on redds, it's taking another chance by crafting a new series of "news" videos featuring fly fishing's version of Ron Burgundy in Bob Frankfurter. Regardless of the delivery (and I'm hearing all…
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