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Nic Bello is a video director who lives in Milan, Italy. He makes commercials and documentaries, but he has become most famous for the yoga videos featuring his precocious Chihuahua, Pancho. Just watch the. . .

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Double Box Cutter Turkey Call Was: $39.00

Sale: $31.20

Turkey season in Vermont is almost upon us, and we're celebrating by offering 20% off select calls, camo, and decoys.

Click here to check out all the deals!

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An airline passenger enjoys petting two PUP dogs between flights.
Photo via lawa.org

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of a great program at Los Angeles's largest airport. The Pets Unstressing Passengers (PUP) initiative, which offers "an opportunity to provide an overall enhanced. . .

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Here's a cool video about fishing a tiny stream in the high Utah(?) desert for small, wild trout. (I'm guessing Utah based on the videographers' previous visit to Yuba Reservoir.) I love small-stream, dry-fly fishing, and. . .

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From Patagonia:

Patagonia today announced a strategic investment in CO2Nexus, Inc., a company that has developed a sustainable method of processing (cleaning, disinfecting and coating) textiles and garments using liquid carbon dioxide – using zero water, consuming less energy and generating very little waste.

Today’s announcement marks a significant investment made by Patagonia through its $20 Million & Change fund, launched in 2013 to help innovative, like-minded startup companies bring about solutions to the environmental crisis through business. The investment caps a Series A round of investment for CO2Nexus, based in Denver.

“Quite simply, processing textiles and apparel requires

Written by: Jeremy Kehrein, Orvis Adventures

Orvis's Reed Kennedy took the first trout just twenty minutes into the float.
Photo by Jeremy Kehrein

It has been a week since trout season opened in Vermont. Unfortunately, we have endured rain, snow, high water, and cold air temps since Opening Day. There hasn’t been much bug activity as of yet, but some of us. . .

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Eldad Hagar's video of Miley's rescue—which has been seen by more than 15 million people on Youtube—was an incredibly powerful and moving production. The poor. . .

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Watch this great collection of footage from Miami and the Florida Keys, with a host of anglers fishing for bonefish, tarpon, redfish, snook, and peacock bass, via Estrada Art.

I'm sure that Jess feels lighter without all that winter fluff!
Photo by Nancy Mackinnon

Nancy Mackinnon, wife of Orvis vice chairman Dave Perkins, sent in this great photo of her dog, jess, along with the caption "Thank goodness for the Furminator!"

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Alberto Rey shows off a Great Lakes king salmon.
All photos courtesy Alberto Rey

Alberto Rey is an Orvis-endorsed guide, an artist, and a faculty member in the Department of Visual Arts and New Media at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He also works with children through the. . .

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Ryan Newman, Rocky Mountain Outfitters

Those are teeth that any brown trout would be proud of.
Photo by Ryan Newman

The closest thing we have to a steelhead run on the Provo River is when the rainbows run out of Deer Creek Reservoir. Earlier this month, while fishing for said 'bows with my new friend Russ, we happened to. . .

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Army Spc. Josh Tucker and Ellen are back together again, fighting a new battle.
Photo by Christopher Powers/USA Today

Here's a wonderful story about a great team—Army Spc. Josh Tucker and Ellen the Black Labrador Retriever—who served together for more than a year in Afghanistan and were recently reunited to help Tucker deal with the. . .

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Season 2 Episode 1:  The Only Way is Up

Sorry, this is a long one but if you sit down with a beverage and just watch, these four instrumental fly anglers from northern Europe will provide some great scenery, adventure and their own brand of humor.  

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Although there are no birds shot in this video shot in southeastern Missouri, I think it does a great job of evoking the joys of being in the woods with a dog.

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Those who follow the Orvis Fly Fishing facebook page got a chance to see Dave Jensen engage in an epic battle with a New Zealand trout that kept hiding under cutbanks. Here's another beauty that. . .

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Oscar the globetrotting dog will enjoy France even more now.Photo via lifewithdogs.tv

We posted last week about an Oregon court ruling that declared dogs as "property" and letting an accused dog abuser off the hook. As blog reader Martha Glisson explained in the comments on facebook, this really is . . .

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Written by: Jim Mitchell, Montana Hunting & Fishing Adventures

Bonnie Mitchell shows off the fruits of her Tenkara skills.
Photo courtesy Jim Mitchell

My story is not uncommon: My wife, Bonnie, didn’t like to fly fish. Every time we would go out and I would try to teach her, in her eyes I was being a jerk, telling her how it must be done. This was frustrating because, as an. . .

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Jessica Kenski, who lost a leg in the bombing, cuddles with Rescue
Photo Courtesy of Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, via npr.org

Since today is Boston Marathon day, the first since the tragic bombing a year ago, this seems like a very appropriate story, via National Public Radio. Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, a recently married couple, were two of. . .

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The race to get to the water can often feel like this vaudeville-themed film short from Caster Tollwad.

With photography by Andy Anderson and words by Tom Rosenbauer, the recently released book Salt: Coastal and Flats Fishing is a journey to America’s most notable saltwater fly fishing destinations.    It’s “As close to a firsthand experience as a reader can get without getting wet.”

Read more in the press release below.

This short film from American Rivers highlights one of America’s most endangered rivers of 2014, San Francisquito Creek, and the issues facing its revival.

Dates for the seven-city Fly Fishing Show tour have been set and announced for 2015.

Read more in the press release below.

TellMe Fishing

As spring approaches I would guess that nearly every fly angler in the northern hemisphere is pretty excited to get back into the swing of t-shirts, hatches, trout on dry flies and the sound of moving water past our feet. We are almost there everyone!

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The first weekend in April, the sleepy city of Missoula, Montana—which was enjoying a week of calm during spring break—was invaded by hundreds of fly-fishing guides and Orvis employees for the. . .

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Here's a wonderful video from early on in Eldad Hagar's career of documenting his rescues. He posted this on the his Facebook page recently, and I realized that we'd never . . .

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Welcome to a new 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, we've got 16 cool videos, offering many different perspectives on. . .

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A decision reversing the animal-neglect conviction of a dog owner was made
by a three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Photo by Oregon Judicial Department

We have posted about this problem before: that, in the eyes of the law, dogs are often seen as nothing more than property. Well, a three-member panel of the Oregon Appeals Court codified that legal definition on. . .

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Two new issues of great, regional fly-fishing magazines hit the digital newsstands this week. First up is A Tight Loop, which covers the Midwest. Solid photography and plenty of words, combined with simple design, make this. . .

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Photo via 9news.com

Through the heavy black smoke, a Labrador retriever emerged. Firefighters say that dog appeared to be in good condition but an older chocolate lab inside did not look so good. Her "limp" body was removed from the. . .

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Daniel Galhardo, founder of Tenkara USA, talks to author John Gierach about his interest and practice of tenkara, which Gierach also writes about in his new book All Fishermen are Liars. Via Tenkara USA.