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Video spotlight: How to perfect your forward cast
Ah, the loop. The tight loop. The wide loop. That god-awful tailing loop. As RIO's Simon Gawesworth explains in the video below, the loop is the key to perfecting your forward fly cast. Gawesworth, the brand manager for RIO, walks us through the process to improving your basic forward cast. Don't laugh. Even season anglers…
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Video spotlight: Hopper Madness
This is exactly what I needed today, a couple of days after an Arctic blast huffed and puffed and left my streets and icy mess. We're months away from "hopper time," but a guy can dream, right? Hopper Madness Fly Fishing from Lone Peak Outfitters on Vimeo. I love fly fishing with fat, foam hoppers.…
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Video spotlight: When to use small flies for trout
We've all been there. We come across a nice rising trout occupying a small stretch of calm, clear water, and we know it's going to take the right cast with the right fly for this wary critter to strike. For me, it happened ages ago on the South Fork of the White River in northwest…
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Video spotlight: Swing Season—the Slow Down
What happens when fishing guides come to the realization that Olympic Penninsula steelhead are in trouble? Renowned steelhead guide Gray Struznik and his community of like-minded brethren on the OP realized that, as fish escapement numbers on fabled local rivers failed to meet goals for proper recruitment that replenishes the population, it was time to…
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Video spotlight: Touching the Sun
I bought a mountain bike last spring with the intent of riding some backcountry trails to fishy haunts, and while I got out a few times, I didn't use it nearly enough. Maybe next summer. It's not an outlandish idea, biking to backcountry fishing. The video above shows two anglers who loaded their bike paniers…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Brookies
Fly fisher and guide Bridget Fabel has a fairly robust collection of fly fishing videos—she's a cheerful camera personality with some solid angling skills. And she fly fishes with her cats. Yes. Cats. Video of A Dozen Brookies On the Fly! Fly Fishing With Cats For High Country Brook Trout!A lot of us have "fishing…
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Video spotlight: Refuge
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in the news again, as the oil and gas industry—sensing more friendly political winds— takes another shot at the effort to sink oil wells into the permafrost north of the Brooks Range. A couple of summer ago, I topped the Brooks Range on the Dalton Highway and got my…
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