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Now that Thanksgiving is over, the official sprint to Christmas has begun. We are now offering FREE shipping for a limited time only: today through Monday, December 8. It's the. . .

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Now that Turkey Day is over, the official sprint to Christmas has begun. We are now offering FREE shipping for a limited time only: today through Monday, December 8. It's the perfect time to. . .

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Now that Turkey Day is over, the official sprint to Christmas has begun. We are now offering 20% off all Helios 2 and Clearwater Outfits, and you can get. . .

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This documentary explores the relationships between people and the environment, and the threats facing the Mur river in Austria.

Farbank Enterprises, which includes Sage, Redington, and RIO, has announced they will partner with Trout Unlimited on the newly developed Wild Steelhead Initiative.

Read more in the press release below.

Simms has announced the launch of their Spring 2015 collection, which includes advancements in footwear and apparel in both men’s and women’s product lines.

Read more in the press release below.

Published by Stonefly Press, Terry and Wendy Gunn’s 50 Best Tailwaters to Fly Fish has been named as one of five finalists in the 2014 USA Best Book Awards in the Sports category.

Read more in the press release below.

Three Tarpon, Acrylic Painting
by Carroll Swayze

Although originally from the snowy north, artist Carroll Swayze has lived on the west coast of Florida for more than 30 years, and her art reflects that proximity to the sea. While attending Ringling School of Art & Design in. . .

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Orvis vice chairman Dave Perkins prepares to knock down a sharptail grouse that Mikey has pointed.
Photo by Mitch Kowalski

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Pay attention to your dog during the busy holiday meal.
Photo by photo by Maria, Gastonia

North Shore Animal League America, the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, has an excellent list of ten ways to keep your dog safe during the hectic family mealtime tomorrow. Here are a few things to look out for: . . .

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By now, you've probably seen enough Todd Moen videos to know that you want to see everything the man does. This trailer for the latest DVD collection from Catch Magazine is a like show reel, featuring incredible scenery, cool. . .

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Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s yet another wonderful rescue video from Eldad Hagar, of Hope for Paws. Lexus had given birth behind some trash cans, so Eldad and friends worked together to. . .

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The Orange Asher seems to have been invented in the 1970s as an adult-midge imitation for the high-mountain lakes of Colorado. Several Internet sources credit the pattern to Jack Howarth, of Colorado Springs, but that's not really much to. . .

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This preview features some impressive footage of big brown trout rises and takes on a “a tiny, mysterious tailwater in the desert.” The full length film will be part of the  2015 F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour. Via Montana Wild.

The 5^th International Symposium hosted by the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust was held November 7-8 in Dania Beach, Florida. It was a successful event with approximately 350 attendants and grossed nearly $117,000 for Bonefish and Tarpon Trust.

Read more in the press release below.

Welcome to another installment of “Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor,” with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I demonstrate how to shoot line at the end of a cast. Sometimes, the fish are just beyond your normal casting range, and you. . .

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We've recently started posting photographs by Jane Sobel Klonsky, as part of her Project Unconditional. (See Waymon and Chloe from yesterday.) Today, Jane sent me an email me about another facet of her project, one with. . .

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Written by: David Mangum, Shallow Water Expeditions

Guide David Mangum hoists aboard the huge redfish, as Dorry Ballantyne celebrates.
All photos by Fitz Coker

On Nov 19th, I was fishing Fitz Coker and Dotty Ballantyne, who were both using 12-pound-test IGFA tippets. It was late in the day, and we were looking for a redfish greater than 34 pounds. The water was dingy and light was low, so. . .

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Texas businesswoman Meredith McCord turns her passion for fishing and travel into doing some fun TV and film work with a fly rod in hand, stalking fish on flats, rivers and lakes around the globe and in her home state.

It seems like Amelia Jensen is having a pretty good time in New Zealand so far. She and her husband, Dave  torture me every year with wonderful photos, videos, and stories from. . .

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That's a whole lotta bucketmouth, from the Lone Star State.
Photo by Steve Hollensed

Guide and former Trout Bum of the Week Steve Hollensed sent in this photo of a 9-pound largemouth caught last Friday on a 7-weight Hydros rod and a. . .

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The athletes named their new friend Arthur, after legendary King Arthur.
Photo via today.com

A four-man Swedish team had trained for months to compete in the Adventure Racing World Championships—which included biking, running and kayaking—in the jungles of Ecuador. But what they couldn't prepare for was adding a. . .

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You can spend hours shoveling a maze in the backyard to confound your dog, but that doesn't mean that the pooch is going to play by your rules. Young Ginzey the dog knows where he wants to be, and he'll do whatever he can to. . .

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This is a feel-good story about what can happen when intelligent minds with different interests and agendas actually sit down and work together to find a solution that works for everyone.  In a nutshell, conservation groups and the oil and gas industry hammered out a deal that would protect the “top” of the Roan Plateau in Colorado, where many species thrive including a strain of native Colorado cutthroat trout, and at the same time, allow energy developers to get at the billions of dollars in natural gas deposits by using smarter, more efficient, directional drilling techniques.

Here’s the release from Colorado Trout Unlimited:

Black Friday and the holiday season are right on top of us. We will be reminded daily of the amazing deals and cool gadgets we need to buy. Honestly it’s one of my favorite shopping times of the year because 1) I love a good deal, and 2) I love cool gadgets. Black Friday is about the only time of the year these two worlds collide. But I tend to hold my hard earned dollars close to my chest and deciding which deal to go after is a difficult, paralyzing proposition. Sometimes I just say “screw it” and walk away.

The same thing happens all the time on the web. Giving your customers too many choices can lead them to making no choice at all. Asking your customers too many questions or giving them too many options can quickly decrease your conversion rate. If you reduce the total number of form fields from 6 to 3 you can improve your conversion rate by 66%.

Your website has a lot of conversions and goals you should be monitoring to help you stay successful. But you need to ask yourself on every page of your site, “What do I want my customers to do on this page?” If there is a link or a button that distracts your customers from that goal, you need to get rid of it. At Sage Lion Media, we are firm believers in this philosophy and have seen it work time and time again.

If you want to see more on the impacts of choices on your conversions check out this

On Nov. 20, Trout Unlimited launched the Wild Steelhead Initiative, an ambitious and hopeful project to protect and restore the wild steelhead and the fishing opportunities they provide throughout their native range in Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.  This is a major deal, as the nation’s leading coldwater conservation organization (with the largest budget, grassroots network, and national staff) is focusing efforts on the wild steelhead cause in a big way.

The heart of the Initiative will be a new community, Wild Steelheaders United, which is being established to

Here's a two-minute trailer for an upcoming film about Spey-fishing for steelhead in British Columbia from the one and only Captain Quinn, whose work we have been featuring since way back in. . .

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Were it not for Chloe, Waymon would probably be a lonely shut-in.
Photo by Jane Sobel Klonsky

[Editor's Note: A couple weeks ago, we posted about Project Unconditional, by Vermont photographer Jane Sobel Klonsky. She has graciously offered to share more of her images with us, and this is the first installment of the series.]

You're never too old, too sick, too poor...too anything.... to find joy. Waymon finds it everyday with Chloe. If it weren't for Chloe, Waymon would probably be in his apartment all day watching television and feeling sorry for. . .

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Here's an interesting story that brings up part of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that I didn't know about. A 7-year-old Massachusetts boy, Austin Flateau, is unable to attend school because the school says that it will not. . .

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Those of us who are old enough to remember the Bosnian War of twenty years ago can recall seeing a country tearing itself apart on the TV news, scenes of brutality that were hard to fathom. It's pretty amazing then to see the beautiful and peaceful landscape in this. . .

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From TRCP:

The first draft of a landmark policy released last Wednesday by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service should foster better understanding and recognition of the cultural, conservation and economic contributions by recreational saltwater anglers among federal law and policy makers and NOAA personnel, a coalition of sportfishing interests stated this afternoon.

NOAA credited conservation and recreational fishing advocacy groups, particularly the Commission on Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Management, as the impetus for the agency developing this policy. The so-called Morris-Deal Commission, named for co-chairs Johnny Morris, founder and CEO of Bass Pro Shops, and Scott Deal, president of Maverick Boats, met throughout 2013 to develop recommendations for federal laws and policies dealing with saltwater angling. The commission outlined its recommendations in a report, “A Vision for Managing America’s Saltwater Recreational Fisheries,” released in February 2014.

Comprised of state and federal fisheries managers, biologists, economists and conservationists, the Morris-Deal Commission was organized

From SIMMS:

Jeff Currier has traveled the globe searching for fish and is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished anglers.  Now Simms Fishing Products has jumped in to help in his quest.

Simms is supporting Currier and his circuit of over 30 annual speaking engagements across the US where he recounts his global angling adventures to eager audiences. Currier will also utilize the Bozeman-based company’s wide array of apparel on his fishing adventures and provide valued product feedback.

Currier’s experience in the fly fishing industry started with a 20+ year tenure at Jack Dennis Sports in Jackson, Wyoming — a shop he helped drive to international recognition.  Currier also worked as a fishing guide in Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park for a decade before settling on his quest to pursue the world’s most elusive fish.  To date, Currier has caught over 300 different species on fly.

Currier’s fishing career has meshed

Written by: Brian McGeehan, Montana Angler Fly Fishing

A fish like this is well worth the firigd fingers and toes that come with November in Montana.
Photo courtesy Bill Buchbauer

Here's a monster brown that Montana Angler guide Bill Buchbauer landed the other day on the Missouri River. In November, Montana rivers are nearly empty and the weather can be a toss up, but the rewards are high. October gets a. . .

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Charlie the Shelter Dog was found on the side of the road, covered in painful burrs, and brought to a Los Angeles area shelter. He needed to be adopted quick because the facility was a high kill shelter. A groomer from. . .

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This trailer gives a glimpse into the upcoming film featuring Craig Mathews of Blue Ribbon Flies, Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia, Steve Hemkens of Orvis, Tim Romano of Angling Trade and Todd Tanner of Conservation Hawks. “Co2ld Waters” looks at the single biggest threat to the future of angling: climate change. Via Conservation Media.