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Pillar 2: Environment
Where do fish live? How can we find them? All about watersheds, rivers, and all those who live in them.
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Stand up and tell 'em! 📣
A gentle nudge to find your voice in conservation and activism.
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Watersheds and watching flies
Zoom out to conserve, zoom in to observe, zoom over to the Grand Fir tonight to have a drink and a bite.
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Creek Freaks and Trout Whisperers: Advocacy from the Deschutes to the Chattahoochee
100 subscribers, Maupin in May, the DRA's Deschutes fight expands, a new blueprint for anadromous activism, and a club report from ATL.
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Remembering Jimmy Carter, our greatest fly-fishing president
Many presidents have fished, but few had the soul of an angler.
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Read By the River, 2024
Sometimes, literally. The five favorite (mostly) fly-fishing books I read this year
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From runway to river
Fly-fishing fashion icons, Joe Pera, final slots for winter classes, and more.
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Finding your fly lab
Another critical element in establishing your home waters: having a place to test things out. Plus a new book from Robin Wall Kimmerer and the many (gnarly) faces of lamprey.
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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.
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Hot weather and trout fishing
A few top tips—and one essential piece of gear—can help keep fish safe when the temps get high.
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The best fly-fishing books ever written
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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Thinking in watersheds
Understanding watersheds, and the different types of rivers we're going to encounter when fly-fishing
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How to read a river: Riffles, runs, and pools
Digging one level deeper to understand the different features we find in a river
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Reading the river: The Thalweg
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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Scouting 101: Keys to finding great fly fishing spots
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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Finding your Home Waters with the Big Here Quiz
Start your journey to find your home waters by grounding yourself on your home planet.
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Dapper Don: Stalking large browns with a long rod
Inspiration on moving to a more sight-fishing, patience-oriented trout approach.