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MORE AUCTIONS: Bid for Bluefin, for Stripers Unlimited

Posted in Fly Fishing, Offshore, Save the World, Travel on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »

Stripers Forever has a silent auction for a school bluefin tuna trip in Maine.

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BRISTOL BAY: Bid for Loot, Stop Wilderness Plunder

Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Save the World, Travel, tagged , , on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »

The Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska is auctioning off a motherload of stuff, from fishing trips to rods, reels, shades, gear, art…anything related to fly fishing that you can get your mitts on.
The good thing is you can go decadent and spend way too much on fly fishing like you already do anyway, but this it’s [...]

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TARPON: Managing the Silver King

Posted in Florida, Fly Fishing, Inshore, Save the World, Travel on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited has posted a petition calling for a multi-State management plan for tarpon. Here’s the case for better regulations for these fish:
Through a satellite tagging program run by Dr. Jerry Ault and the Rosenstiel School from the University of Miami, scientists confirmed that tarpon are highly migrational, with some swimming as far [...]

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Off the Main Stream

Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Other Blogs, Travel on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

At least somebody somewhere caught something over the weekend. And people are taking fish you don’t read about on a daily basis. This makes me happy. A brief rundown:
RoughFisherman’s Journal caught redhorse.
The Rogue Angels hit sturgeon.
One of the BWTF guys hooked some redeye bass. 
TV angler got redeyes, too.
Singlebarbed tangled with a pike minnow he knows by [...]

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There Will Be Pike

Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Northeast, Travel on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The 10th Annual Spring Northern Fly Fishing Expedition is locked in and good to go. May is looking good on all fronts.

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Kesey’s Fugitive Mexico

Posted in Offshore, Stupid Stuff, Travel on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »

A Time’s writer’s pretentious attempt to recreate Ken Kesey’s experience on the lam in Manzanillo.

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CHILE: Cowboys vs. Corporation

Posted in Other Blogs, Save the World, Travel, tagged , , , on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Buster Wants To Fish reports the story of a European corporation’s efforts to hijack a Chilean river, and of the grass roots efforts to stop it.

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Release

Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Photos, Travel on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »


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VIDEO: South African Safari

Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Travel, Video on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »

Here’s some footage combined from two different game reserves, Kwandwe in the Eastern Cape, and Madikwe in the North West provence on the border of Botswana, as well as some shots from my day on the Vaal River with competition fly angler Shayne Prinsloo.
Some more notes.
Cape Town is one of the great cities of the [...]

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Say Yellow…Yellow

Posted in Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Travel, tagged , , on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »

The head of the 8-pound smallmouth yellowfish I caught drifting a nymph along the banks of the Vaal River under the tutelage of competitive fly angler Shayne Prinsloo.
More detail to come, but for the most part, smallmouth yellowfish feed and behave exactly like trout, except that they have about twice the pound-for-pound fighting strength.

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