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Photo of the week – New Year
May this New Year bring you many smiles, many fish, many successes, and many many days on the water.
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Doing something to protect what you love
For Mike Mihalas, a surprise encounter in that pond (located in suburban Connecticut in this case) was the springboard to a life focused on fish, rivers and wild places.
Most of us don’t start our fishing lives on some storied fishery. Not many people spend their formative years on the Railroad Ranch of the Henry’s Fork nor in the lore-rich valleys of the Catskills, but a great many begin their journey at the exact same humble body of water; the neighborhood bluegill pond. For…
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TROUT Tying Tip – get started tying
To get to the fun stuff of tying actual flies sooner, here are a few videos to get you started tying. This week, Tim shows how to load the thread, get it started on the hook, and how to finish a fly with a whip finishing tool. Practicing all these skills before playing with tying…
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Knowledge = protections
For the past seven years, Mark Hieronymus has been on a mission to explore and document previously unknown anadromous waters in Southeast Alaska for Trout Unlimited’s Fish Habitat Mapping project. Waters listed in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s (ADFG) Anadromous Waters Catalog (AWC) are protected under Alaska law. Once streams are included in…
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Is trout fishing better out West? Or just different?
The instant the trout ate I felt my courtesy rewarded.
The instant the trout ate I felt my courtesy rewarded. A few minutes earlier, Erik Johnsen and I had slipped down the dusty riverbank trail to a sweet-looking run on Colorado’s Eagle River, not too far from Vail. Johnsen wanted me to have the first shot, but I wasn’t having it. “It’s all you,” I…
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Photo of the week – shooting line
Here’s to sunny, yet, cold days on the water. May your hands stay warm and your guides free of ice. Happy New Year!
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TROUT Tip – tying thread sizes
If a fly tying setup was on your Christmas wish list and Santa came through, we’re going to walk you through the basics over the coming weeks to help you get started. This week, watch as Tim Flagler in partnership with Orvis explains fly tying thread sizes, how to know what the sizing means and…