News On The Fly

This fascinating video, and the accompanying article on CNET, reveal some fascinating facts about the ways that our best friends experience the world through smells: . . .

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This fish is all brown trout at the head and all marble trout at the tail.
Photo by Sandy Hays

I was going through some of the images from my trip to Slovenia last June, and I ran across this cool image of a unique hybrid. It was our fourth day on the water, and we had hiked down into. . .

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The Ray Charles Sowbug has been around for at least a couple decades and is a staple on Western tailwaters, especially the Bighorn and the Missouri. There are tons of variations of. . .

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Fresh catch on ice
Photo by Associated Press

The following is a piece that recently appeared in the Huffington Post, authored by PBS "Saving the Ocean" host Carl Safina and Rare CEO Brett Jenks:

You know that hunger and the oceans are on a collision course when your 89-year-old mother phones you -- as Safina's mom did this morning -- and says, "Did you see the article saying that we're driving seafood extinct? We'd better go get some oysters and some blackfish before they're all gone!" The irony wasn't entirely lost on her...

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The latest issue of flymage: Fly Fishing & Photography Magazine, offers an important update by Scott Hed, of the Sportsman's Alliance for Alaska, on where things stand in the fight against. . .

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Over on the Orvis Fly Fishing blog, we do a weekly film festival that features great videos found on the Web. Here's a similar collection that features cute dogs and wonderful perspectives. With . . .

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Here's a sweet, short video of a stop at the Savage River in Western Maryland in the midst of a January road trip. A midday stonefly hatch brought a couple fish to the surface, causing. . .

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From TU:

Trout Unlimited has launched an essay contest open to the angling public that will net the winning author a $994 Scott Radian fly rod package and publication in TROUT Magazine. Second and third place essays will also earn fishing gear prizes. Essays must focus on one or more of the places featured in TU’s recently released 10 Special Places report (tu.org/special-places), and must be no more than 500 words.

TU’s 10 Special Places full report was released in December, after individual places were announced weekly this fall. The report focuses on areas that are rich in fish, game and natural beauty, and that have for generations provided abundant opportunities for hunters and anglers. It covers threats to

The Indicator Parachute Adams works both as a mayfly imitation and as an indicator fly.
Photo via orvis.com

There are few more maddening situations in fly fishing than watching fish gorge themselves right in front you but being unable to catch them because you can’t see your fly. (And for you whippersnappers who can now spy a Trico spinner at 60 feet: rest assured that such acuity won't. . .

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Written by: Jane Sobel Klonsky

Jenny says that she recognized something special about Nekia right off the bat.
Photo by Jane Sobel Klonsky

[Editor's Note: Back in November, we posted about Project Unconditional, by Vermont photographer Jane Sobel Klonsky. She has graciously offered to share more of her images with us.]

Denver, CO - Jenny and her Black Lab/Golden Retriever senior therapy dog Nekia, are an incredible team. Jenny is president of Grey Muzzle Organization, which improves the lives of. . .

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Writteh by: by John Herzer, Blackfoot River Outfitters

Dawson Herzer (left) and his buddy JJ have been enjoying the fine western Montana weather.
All photos by John Herzer

After a serious head start on winter, both in cold temps and snowpack, Western Montana has warmed up. The past couple of weeks of above-average temperatures and atypical high pressure along, with its bright sun, have freed the local rivers from ice. Typically, just a few days of sun. . .

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Firefighters carry lucky after the airlift team plucked him from the river just in time.
Photo via nbclosangeles.com

A dog now nicknamed "Lucky" was plucked from the swollen Los Angeles River on Friday in a dramatic helicopter rescue by firefighters. Lucky was swept away by the raging currents, . . .

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A group of anglers goes off the grid in this film from David Magnum and Shallow Water Expeditions. The full film can be seen now touring with the 2015 Fly Fishing Film Tour.

Brook Trout, oil on canvas, 56" X 48"
All paintings by Analee Fuentes

Artist Analee Fuentes makes her home in Oregon, but she attributes her love of brilliant, vibrant colors to her childhood in the Southwest, “where the landscape was a riot of light and color and [her] cultural artifacts (Mexican serapes, textiles and embroidery) were profuse with rich. . .

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The dog may be small, but it clearly has a big heart.
Photo via lifewithdogs.tv

Here's a scary story, which has a happy ending only because of the intervention of a four-year-old Rat Terrier, who came to a girl's rescue. The 12-year-old was walking down the sidewalk, . . .

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Written by Phoebe Bean

It took a while, but Phoebe finally got the skunk off, both figuratively and literally.
All photos by Phoebe Bean

I have slowly come to realize how spoiled I was in Vermont while working for Orvis. Putting aside all of the other awesome aspects of my job, I was able to fish nearly every day, due to the. . .

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From RIO Products:

RIO Products, industry-leading manufacturer of fly lines, leaders and tippet material, adds the GT Line to its tropical saltwater series of lines to easily throw big flies to these notoriously strong fish.

The GT line is built on an ultra strong core and is designed with a short, heavy head to carry big flies on powerful fly rods. Anglers chasing giant trevally often face demanding conditions, so the powerful front taper casts very large flies with ease, but the biggest benefit of this line is the core strength. The extremely tough core has a breaking strength in excess of 50 pounds to easily battle large fish and to resist cuts from coral and rock structures.

The GT line features a

Leah Wyman and Marvin are taking a lifelong journey together.
Photo via usatoday.com

Here's a moving story about a South Carolina woman who adopted an eight-week-old Black Lab/Hound-mix puppy, only to discover that he has some very serious psychological problems, . . .

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Ireland has always been a pike-fishing destination for European hardware anglers, but it's only in the last decade that warmwater fly fishing has taken off in the Emerald Isle. In 2004, an Irish. . .

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Jack and Amos are the pooches who inspired the movement.
Photo via wcsh6.com

A couple weeks ago, we posted about a movement to make the Beagle Vermont's state dog. It turns out that there's a similar movement afoot in Maine, but this time focused on a more. . .

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This short film features the story of Truckee River guide Matt “Gilligan” Koles. From Catch, Snap & Release.

7 Miles Back

We are not all afforded the time to make the effort of getting off the road enough to see some of what Montana and likely every other state in the U.S. has to offer.  If you were willing here is a pretty good idea of what you might experience.  Some pretty captures guys!

original content Montana Wild Productions

Legendary bamboo rodmaker Hoagy Carmichael recently donated his entire rodmaking shop to the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum. In this short video his son, Ben Carmichael, talks with Hoagy about his work and legacy.

Salmon Stories…Avery McRae

This little girl tells it as she sees it.  So awesome and inspirational to see youth grabbing the torch and running with it.  Would expect to see great things from this young lady and look forward to it.

Salmon Stories showcase community members working to protect Salmon. Avery McRae, Eugene 4th grader, encourages all kids looking to help protect the planet to ‘throw a...

On the podcast this week I am all by myself--it's a topic I've been asked to address before and didn't require a special guest.  It's entitled "10 Things I Wish I had Known About Fly Tying when I Started", and although fly tying is a never-ending journey, I thought I would share some thoughts with listeners with the hope they will pick up on these tips, tricks, and materials quicker than I did--although some of them were not even around when I started tying almost 50 years ago!  Also in The Fly Box this week we talk about the "X" system for describing hook shank length, whether to crimp the barbs on saltwater hooks, strategies for filling fly boxes during the winter, when to let a dead fish float away, how to remove the smell of head cement from recently tied flies (a great listener suggestion!), and how to determine which side of a feather is the "shiny" side.

From TU:

The U.S. Senate voted today to reject an amendment to the Keystone XL Pipleline bill that would have removed protections from 15 million acres of backcountry lands in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges and Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas. The Senate’s rejection of the amendment affirms the value that Americans—especially hunters and anglers—place on wild, backcountry lands.

“America’s wild, unroaded backcountry is perhaps our greatest natural asset,” said Steve Kandell, director of Trout Unlimited’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project. “These lands have been valued by sportsmen and women for generations as a lasting American frontier where fish and wildlife can thrive and hunters, anglers and other adventurous souls can experience the outdoors in a wild, natural state.”

Kandell also noted that public lands serve as the foundation for a burgeoning outdoor recreation economy, which is valued at $646 billion in annual economic activity and supports 6.1 million jobs.

Research has demonstrated a strong correlation between undisturbed backcountry areas and healthy trout and salmon habitat. For example, rivers like the Gunnison flowing through the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area (Colo.), and the Donner and Blitzen River in the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (Ore.) are strongholds for native and wild trout. In Colorado, 71 percent of Colorado River cutthroat trout waters flow through roadless areas.

The amendment would have given Congress

Galletta says that many anglers overlook the killer terrestrial fishing on the Bighorn.

Have you dreamed of fishing the famed Bighorn River in Montana? If you're not from Big Sky country, traveling there to fish can be intimidating. How do you know what to expect the. . .

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Welcome to our latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. This week's collection features 13 videos (second prime number in a row!) from around the world, with a couple super-shorties that show how to. . .

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