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Daughters of Trout Unlimited: Ode to a fish loving father
Photo by Jenny Nichols Glennon Ode to a Fish Loving Father by Jenny Nichols Glennon It started perched on your hip.Watching as the fish would rise and dip.You’d point them outAnd then you’d say We’ll fish together, we will, someday. I tried to learn, I really didbut I just wasn’t that kid.It was less about catching…
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Daughters of Trout Unlimited: Samantha Carmichael
Daughters of Trout Unlimited:Samantha Carmichael Deputy Editor of TROUT Magazine (daughters Penelope and Daphne) Daughters. I have watched my husband happily announce that I was expecting a girl twice in our marriage. Mouths smile, but eyes squint, and brows furrow, and comments range from “Another one?” to “Well, maybe number 3 will be a boy”…
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A letter to my daughter
When the world feels on the brink, can a child bring us back?
By Christine Peterson Our feet fall a little to the right on the smooth, gray stones. We sit where glaciers once pulsated slowly over thousands of years. They grew and shrank, grew and shrank, slicing into the rock and earth with each movement, creating this valley and leaving behind a clear, rocky river. All I…
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Photo Gallery: First Float
Over the Memorial Day weekend, my family and three others took a wonderfully run whitewater class from River Rescue Dynamics (@riverrescuedynamics) in Grand Junction, Colo., then had the privilege of spending three days in Ruby and Horsethief canyons in far western Colorado and Utah. This was a “let the kids (all nine of them) run…
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Everyone rows
Reminders can be a pain. I certainly understand. If you’re anything like me, you lean on the ignore side of reminders more than the take action side. But there are some reminders that simply should not be ignored and when it comes to safety, we should all listen. We raft with a lot of different…
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Dinner Time Conservation
I understood what years of talking about water, rivers, fishing and agriculture have done to them. It’s made them advocates. It’s made them passionate.
Most every home has a dinner table ritual. Ours is a mixed bag of content typically. With an eight- and ten-year-old often leading the discussion it’s our job as parents to listen and respond when appropriate. These are moments in my day I look forward to. Like a trip down a river, they’re filled with…
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Invest in a simple rod holder and stop breaking fly rods
I didn’t start really breaking fly rods until I got a boat. Sounds funny but it’s true. Boats, moving water, kids, dogs and fragile fly rods don’t always go well together. My wife has plenty of good ideas and often sees things happening before they actually happen. I believe that her perceptive personality could be…