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Ground yourself on our home planet
Establish The Big Here on the way to finding your home waters. Also, two fun fly fishing films, and registration opening for Winter term class.
Forever seeking flow.
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Establish The Big Here on the way to finding your home waters. Also, two fun fly fishing films, and registration opening for Winter term class.
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If you can manage your line, you can manage your life.
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When it comes to fly-fishing knot tying skill, it's truly a tale of the haves and the have-knots. OK, ok. I promise not to get things too twisted up here, pun-wise at least.
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If you start summer steelheading earlier than October, does it get less bittersweet?
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There's a great new documentary out about the wonderful benefits of joining a club. Guess what? Joining a fly-fishing club is even better, and will make you a better angler.
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Recalling the shaper of a Platonic fly-fishing reality, in his own words
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Digging in on the progression from Aspen Extreme to Trout Bum (RIP John Gierach), Grant Petersen CFS GOAT, SalmonSuperHwy lauded by the White House, and more
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It's not the be-all end-all Ultimate Fly Fishing Destination Packing List, but it's what I wound up bringing to Italy, where the trout fishing is much like at home.
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In Piemonte, on the Sesia and Mastallone rivers, anything is possible with the right attitude.
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Searching for slabs on the Passer river in Südtirol / Trentino Alto-Adige, part of our five-part series on fly-fishing in Italy
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Can you help identify this strange trout variant? Salmo truta helvetica?
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The first in a series on fly fishing in the Italian alps, on getting licensed in Italy, and the main differences between fly fishing in Italy and the USA.
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On Adam Phillips, and finding, and re-finding our identities as anglers
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A few top tips—and one essential piece of gear—can help keep fish safe when the temps get high.
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Three ways to conquer the self-consciousness that comes with beginning fly fishing and start building your fly fishing practice
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Moving beyond the engineering mindset, and trying to embrace frustration as a key function of learning
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Take me fishing. A simple request, a schmaltzy commercial, a pivotal role. Here are five permissions you can give yourself and your fishing friend to create space for connection.
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Do forest fires hurt fly fishing? An update from the Clackamas river fire zone.
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Reflections on an epic face-plant, remembering Bill Walton
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Opening up, setting intentions for the new season
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Books that will improve your fly-fishing. A definitive list of all the best fly-fishing books, from beginner to technical methods, from entomology to romantic lore and conservation. And, of course, great writing.
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It's big bug time on the Deschutes, the most wonderful time of the year.
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Whether it's the first cast you learn or the second, the roll cast is a hard-working and versatile arrow in your casting quiver.
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Understanding watersheds, and the different types of rivers we're going to encounter when fly-fishing
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All about indicators, floats, suspenders—whatever you call the thing every other angler calls a bobber.
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You've rigged up your rod, landed your cast in the right place, your fly is on the water...and, it's waterskiing. Tactics and tips to maintain a drag-free drift that's irresistible to fish.
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Find the fast water for keys on where to row, where to put your flies, and how the river wants to be.
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Digging one level deeper to understand the different features we find in a river
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The knee bone connects to the thigh bone...the thigh bone connects to the hip bone...digging into all the things that attach to your fly rod, from reel seat to fly line to tippet.
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There's one mistake I want to help you avoid when you buy your first fly rod.
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The do's and do-knot's fly-fishing knot tying. Find out what you need to know, what you don't, and how to build your skills and have confidence in your fly-fishing knots
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Scouting fly fishing spots can be a major challenge for beginners. It depends on combing through lots of sources of information to find places where you might find great water, then verifying those hunches in real life.
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Start your journey to find your home waters by grounding yourself on your home planet.
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Check-in with your goals and intentions at the start of every fishing season, or calendar year.
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Here are the four pieces of gear you really need to get started fly-fishing
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For as long as humans have lived near rivers and oceans, we’ve fished. And I’d argue that fly fishing is the closest to how our ancestors did it.