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Video spotlight: Help fund the ‘Path of the Jaguar’
For years, the Latin American paradise of Colombia has been a political mess, ripe with danger originating from government rebels, toxic drug cartels and general corruption. But things might be changing in this wondrous jungle nation. Oh, and the fishing is pretty good, too. As you can see from the video above, a group of…
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Video spotlight: 120 Days
Many fly fishers claim obsession. We spend hours and hours hunched over fly tying vises meticulously crafting the right bug for the right fish at the right time of year ... or even the right time of day. We load up on thousands of dollars worth of gear—whether we really need it or not. We…
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Video spotlight: Using nippers to beat knots
If you're like me, and not the perfect fly caster in the wind, you've experienced your share of wind knots that have fouled up a solid hook-set or just made tough casting even harder. Getting wind knots is easy, really. Getting them untangled? Not so much. In the video below, Joe Shafer shows a simple…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing the ‘Land of Bones’
New Zealanders really do have it all. Not only do they have some of the best dry-fly trout fishing on the planet at their fingertips, but they're a short hop away from tropical destinations like Aitutaki, the "land of bones." I realize that we here in North America enjoy our share of quality trout and…
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Video spotlight: Above Iliamna
Alaska's Bristol Bay is home to the most important run of sockeye salmon on earth—about half of all commercially harvested sockeye come from this run, and they provide about 14,000 American jobs every single year. This fishery, as we've noted for well over a decade, is priceless. Yet the threat of Pebble Mine looms like…
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Video spotlight: Chalk
The origin of modern-day fly fishing can be likely be traced to the fabled chalk streams of Britain—those clear, cold spring creeks where the art of presenting the upstream dry fly was pioneered. Rivers like the Test come to mind when I think of chalk streams, but the video below gives me a bit of…
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Video spotlight: Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop
Who doesn't like catching fish on top? With poppers, no less. Several years back, while fishing with a great group of guys on Alaska's Tongass National Forest, I was introduced to the fact that pink salmon—yes, pink salmon—will hit poppers just as they're reporting for spawning duty from the saltwater. We spent one glorious afternoon…
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