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Recovering America’s native optimism
by Chris Wood Al Perkinson looks like a California surfer dude. He’s got wavy long hair and the languid movement of a gracefully aging athlete. He is also the guy who built the Costa del Mar brand, helped TU start the Five Rivers program, and now runs marketing for Simms. I was talking with Al…
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Video Spotlight: The Daily Show dives into Great Lakes challenges
How do you take a fairly mundane subject (for most folks) like the health of the Great Lakes and make it interesting?Have the folks at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah tackle it.In this segment, Daily Show “correspondent” — yeah, he’s actually a stand-up comedian — MIchael Kosta connects with Dan Egan to, ahem, dive…
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Trout Unlimited Alaska Hosts Chinook Panel
By Dave Atcheson Most Alaskans are painfully aware of the recent downturn in king salmon runs on many of our streams. The numbers of returning Chinook salmon have remained alarmingly low for the last several years, prompting fishing closures in many areas, including the previous season’s closure of the entire Southeast region. It was with…
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Voices from the River: The movie that changed fly fishing
Director and producer Robert Redford eyes a shot during filming of "A River Runs Through It". Courtesy photo. By Brett Prettyman While most people talk about Brad Pitt’s shadow casting and the family drama the troubled soul Paul brought to his clan, I have different memories of “A River Runs Through It.” Like so many…
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TUDARE hosts 10th annual bus tour of restoration sites
By Duke Welter Near ly 60 people participated in a recent bus tour to visit restored streams in the heart of Southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Area. In this 10th annual tour organized by the Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort, participants got to walk four streams and talk with project managers, biologists, designers and contractors. Questions…
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Video spotlight: Giant trevally take birds out of the sky
David Attenborough providing play-by-play of giant trevally taking down a tern? Yes, thank you very much. This video has been making the rounds on social media and more than one angler has commented it is time to tie some bird flies. Video of Bird Vs Fish - Blue Planet IIAnd you thought a pike or…
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Fly tying: Less Mess Morrish Mouse
I haven’t spent a ton of time fishing mice. Other than a few nights looking for big browns — bushwhacking through the north woods with a underpowered headlamp just to lose most of my flies to unseen trees — my experience is pretty much limited to chucking these bugs into lily pads for largemouth. I’ve…