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Video spotlight: Hook sizes
I'm loving this new series that Tim Flagler and Orvis are doing on hooks and hook sizes. This lessens the curve for new fly tiers and for new fly fishers who can find the verbiage surrounding hooks a bit intimidating. To make it simple, Tim offers the best explainer: The higher the number, the smaller…
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Video spotlight: Hank Patterson reviews the Orvis Ultralight Wading Boot
At this point, I'm about read to start a GoFundMe account for our old pal Hank Patterson—he's reviewed a truckload of Orvis gear, but has yet to get himself one of the company's new Helios 3 fly rods, despite numerous pleas and the catch slogan, #SendHankTheH3. Video of Hank Patterson's Ultralight Wading Boot reviewI mean,…
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Video spotlight: Airstreamer
Here's a good one from the Catch Magazine vault—Todd Moen dusted it off recently for us all to enjoy. It depicts my favorite kind of fly fishing—waking up somewhere new in the confines of the camper and taking the fly rod down to the creek to see what's hitting. Video of Bass, Carp & Trout…
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Data loggers make monitoring stream temps easy
Check out TU's Stream Temperature Monitoring Handbook. By Kurt Fesenmyer One great way to take the pulse of your local river is by monitoring stream temperatures. Inexpensive data loggers offer the opportunity to record water temperatures every hour for several years, providing easy access to important information on seasonal patterns, short-term trends, and the impacts…
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Voices from the River: Fifteen minutes
By Eric Booton I start by asking the kids "what kind of rod is this?" While holding up a basic Shakespeare 8-weight combo rod on display for them to analyze. The answers vary, some are wrong, some are accurate, and some are obscure. The best answer remains "it's an old timey rod!" I am self-taught…
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Read the 2017 TU Annual Report
Dear Reader, On behalf of Trout Unlimited’s 300,000 members and supporters, 220 professional staff, and our trustees and grassroots leaders, we want to share with you the 2017 Trout Unlimited annual report. We realize that annual reports are essentially ritualized bragging, and should be generally read as such. Please consider these numbers, however, before you…
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Gear test: Sage SALT HD
When I first started saltwater fly fishing, I was generally clueless as to the role solid fly rods played in the success of anglers pursuing fish that didn't have banks or rapids or waterfalls to stop their runs. Not until I went to the Bahamas for the second time did I come to understand that…
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