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We have a friend named Tosh Brown that’s an outdoor photographer. He’s starting a publishing company for writers. Go figure… Tosh wants to challenge the traditional avenue people are published and give a chance to, “facilitate a select list of accomplished writers who are challenging the traditional boundaries of sporting and expedition publishing. Instead of continually churning out volumes of comfortable and habitual writing, we’re looking to occasionally publish something really uniq

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We have a friend named Tosh Brown that’s an outdoor photographer. He’s starting a publishing company for writers. Go figure… Tosh wants to challenge the traditional avenue people are published and give a chance to, “facilitate a select list of accomplished writers who are challenging the traditional boundaries of sporting and expedition publishing. Instead of continually churning out volumes of comfortable and habitual writing, we’re looking to occasionally publish something really uniq

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The Crooked River is not only scenic, it fishes great all year and is home to a healthy population of native rainbow trout. I almost felt guilty calling this work. Almost. I found myself getting defensive with friends and co-workers, trying to justify to them that just because I am a fly fishing junkie doesn’t mean a fly fishing trip cannot be considered at the same time an enjoyment and legitimate work. See, there I go defending myself again. All feelings of guilt aside, it was with great o

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE - Outdoor clothing manufacturer Patagonia has opened its 25th retail store and its first location in Texas. The new 7,000-square-foot Patagonia store at 316 North Congress is located in a historic building that began life as the W.B. Smith dry goods store in 1884, four years before the state capitol down the street was completed. The store carries Patagonia-branded outdoor sports and lifestyle products tailored to the Austin market. Items range from layering systems to

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For many, time spent at Weber State University serves the sole purpose of obtaining that leather-bound piece of paper that (hopefully) means a better-paying job. While this is a worthwhile endeavor, it’s important to consider your years at WSU as a growing experience as well as a learning one.

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It was a weekend spent sitting, driving, driving, sitting, driving… well, you get the picture. And without a trout at the end of any of those drives - and all my little small streams closing as the General Trout Season ended on Saturday - you could say my “regular” season ended not with a bang, but with the whimper of tires on the highway. Fortunately, California’s progressed to the point that they carelessly left a few places for us to fish during the winter, and yes, I damn well plan to ta

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To launch his fourth season of fly fishing podcasts, Zach Matthews interviewed Richard Hewitt and Tom Pero on the future of Fish & Fly magazine, which was just acquired by Hewitt’s U.K. company. Pero: “We’re publishing an issue of the standard format of Fish & Fly at the end of December. I can tell you that it will be a ‘best of’ issue.”

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Gamakatsu has come up with a new way of attaching droppers to leaders using a preformed plastic bead that slides onto the leader just above the tippet and holds the dropper line perpendicular to the leader. “The Dropper Bead is a clear plastic oval bead with a hole running length wise through the center that the leader goes through and a second hole underneath it running perpendicular to the other one to attach a dropper line to.”

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Before the arrival of spinning reels, fly rod owners were mighty inventive when it came to figuring out how to use a fly rod in non-classic ways. Gordon Wickstrom writes about spinners, swivels and artificials of all shapes and sizes that were once hung on the end of a fly line. “There was one thing, for sure, that we could do with this rig, which was to fling fly rod spinners around all up and down our streams. The interbellum period was the great age of the ‘fly rod spinner,’ and no trout fis

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Buy Now Wooly Bugger Trout Fly Fishing Flies Collection’s price decreased by 85% from $36.95 to $5.50 at Amazon.com. What a fish catching pattern! This collection consists of 18 flies in tried-and-true colors and materials. Included are the following fly patterns in various sizes: 3 Bead Head Black Flashabuggers, 3 Bead Head Olive Flashabuggers, 3 Bead Head Brown Flashabuggers, 3 Black Wooly Buggers, 3 Olive Wooly Buggers, and 3 Brown Wooly Buggers. Fish can’t resist a seductively … click (m

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