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From Bristol Bay to the Bronx
Rob shows that real Alaskans fish for carp Washington, D.C., is a long way from Dillingham, Alaska, but that’s where Triston Chaney spent his 19th birthday. Triston was among a group of commercial fishermen, lodge owners and outfitters who came back to the nation’s capital to discourage the EPA from permitting the proposed Pebble Mine…
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Anchorage: A hub for women leaders in fly fishing
By Meghan Barker It doesn’t take much time spent in Alaska’s largest city to see that Anchorage is a growing hub for women who are taking charge and leading others in the fly fishing community. With access to some of the best salmon and trout streams in the world, the female angling community in Alaska…
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Hats off to educators across TU
I recently sat under a tent at the Western North Carolina Fly Expo and watched four teenagers speak to an audience of anglers about their experience as leaders in Trout Unlimited. Articulate, professional and a little nervous, they told the story of how it all started at Trout Camp. “Rivercourse changed my life” every one…
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Sulphur Perdigon Nymph
Perdigon-style nymphs are great for anglers who need to get deep, and get deep quickly. Tied with lead-free wire and finished with a hard-finish UV resin, these flies drop like stones and don't push too much water, which minimizes drag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGEP5eEwGcI Above, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions ties his Sulphur Perdigon Nymph, just in time…
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New book profiles women in angling industry
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Fly Fishing on a Changing Yellowstone
Sometimes is takes a crisis to spur action. It's an unfortunate reality—in order to realize that something is dreadfully wrong, something that can't be ignored must first happen. In the summer of 2017, after a low-snow winter in southwest Montana, thousands of native mountain whitefish went belly up on the Yellowstone River between Gardiner and…
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Who is the ‘fishy’ person in your family?
Every family has that one person with a knack for catching fish. Aiza is that person in our family. She simply loves to fish. My nephew is one lucky guy. Almost three years ago he married Aiza. She is a talented millennial with a successful career in the tech industry and a loving mother of…
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