2007 Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Video Awards
2007 Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Video Awards
2007 Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Video Awards
2007 Drake Magazine Fly Fishing Video Awards
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60 Words on Saltwater Fly Fishing
Contest: 60 Words on Saltwater Contest Winners A salty mix of sweat and the Gulf of Mexico crawls down the side of my face, leaving a crusty trail as it dries. My finger is bloody from the relentless abrasion of salty fly line drawn over sunburned skin, yet I continue to cast. Time and again…
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Troutopia In The Land Of Absentee Wealth
When I first moved to Ketchum, ID and the hallowed Wood River Valley, I was drawn like most to the more wide open spaces in the drainage. Multi-million dollar Hollywood alpine retreats, and lodges with over-the-top “great rooms” tended to dot the “up-valley” rivers and detract, I felt, from the experience. Trying to determine the…
Remembering a Fly Tyer
I grew up under the roof of a fly fisherman, a well-respected guide whose father – a guide himself – was a pioneer on his native Snake River. I remember him as a skilled caster who could throw a line more that 90 feet and make it seem effortless. I remember him, too, as a…
Fiction: Catch
“It’s been a grand tournament so far – don’t you think?” asked the prideful chairman to the leather-tanned skiff guide approaching the trophy table. “Grand, perhaps, in the sense of fine weather,” the guide scoffed with a sidewise glance toward the competitors gathered on the dock. The chairman set down his Styrofoam cup with the…
Bugs: Desert Storm
–Mike Muri It’s an orgy that would have made caligula jealous. an unusually warm mid-may day filled with frenzied lovemaking, the participants’ bodies locked together coupling with a purpose, oblivious to all that surrounds them. Onlookers are left to gape in wonder as caddisflies in every shape, color, and size procreate with an intoxicating intensity.…
Set Her Free – Removing the Snake River Dams
The pacific ocean covers 70 million square miles of this planet. A vast network of birthing rivers is needed to fill a biologically meaningful portion of so great a sea with salmon. One of the most crucial of such networks is the Columbia/Snake river system, a single great Y-shaped flow, each wing of the Y…
Mullet vs. Mullet
One is a ridiculed fish.One is a ridiculed haircut.We explain the difference.
10 Top Ways to Make Your Guide Consider a Career Change
When booking the trip, inform your guide that you are prone to epileptic seizures, get kidney dialysis twice a week, and are recoverÂing from surgery on both your knees. You can’t walk very far or stay confined in small spaces for more than a couple of hours, but would like to get on uncrowded waters…
Flyshop Guy
Fly shop guy is staunchly heterosexual, twentyÂsomething, and uncertain of his politics. Fly shop guy spent six or seven years at a southern university and is named Justin, Jeremy, Jonathan, Gifford, Trevor, Tripp or Tristan. Fly shop guy will say things across the river when fishing is poor like, “Holy shit, dude, even the choice…
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