News On The Fly

New to Redington’s already impressive collection of spey and switch rods, this season the Dually joins the ranks, combining traditional styling and modern technology.

Here's a great video about an organization that matches up service members who are deployed overseas with foster parents for their dogs. Dogs on Deployment was founded by husband and wife, Shawn and Alisa Johnson, who serve in. . .

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Josh's White Lightning, by Josh Williams of Franklin County, Virginia
Photo via orvis.com

Since you can save 20% on fly-tying materials all month long, we decided to celebrate with a contest that asks you to put all materials to use. Think you've come up with a. . .

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DamNation World Premiere

It has been a long time in coming but it is finally here. DamNation is set to premiere in March at SXSW Film and will be spreading its wings across the U.S. and abroad in the coming months. Look for dates near you coming soon on the website, DamNation Film. Press release here:

February 3, Ventura, C.A. — Patagonia presents the SXSW world premiere of DamNation, a film odyssey...

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. We have a great selection this week, sixteen videos featuring a wide variety of. . .

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Guides and anglers alike, book your travel! The 2014 Orvis Guide Rendezvous and Down the Hatch Fishing Festival is kicking off in Missoula, Montana the first weekend in. . .

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Firefighter Lieutenant Rick Trudeau with two of the four dogs rushed to a vet clinic after being rescued from the fire.
Photo by lifewithdogs.tv

We've posted stories about heroic firefighters before, but here's one dog-loving lieutenant who took his assistant one step further. When a fire destroyed a house in. . .

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Nancy MacKinnon is all smiles after landing a gorgeous New Zealand brown trout.
Photo by Dave Perkins

Nancy MacKinnon landed the above beautiful brown trout while fishing public water on the Motueka River on the South Island of. . .

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Pro-Pet LLC of St. Marys, Ohio has announced a voluntary recall of a limited number of dry dog and cat foods for possible Salmonella. . .

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The St. Lewis River in Labrador is featured in this preview for an upcoming TV show by The New Fly Fisher.

Spatsizi

At roughly two million acres, the Spatsizi Wilderness in northern British Columbia is the home of the Collingwood family’s Spatsizi Wilderness Lodge. This film documents Ray Collingwood’s vision, beginning in the late ‘60s, to operate a world-class rainbow trout fly-fishing lodge with his family. With stunning aerial footage of the Skeena Mountains and Firesteel River Valley, including...

AFFTA recently sent the attached document to President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking them to use their power to stop Pebble Mine now. Here it is in it’s entirety.

Jan. 29, 2014
To: President Barak Obama
From: The American Fly Fishing Trade Association
CC: Administrator Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency
Re: Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska

Dear Mr. President:

As the industry association representing hundreds of fly fishing manufacturers, retailers, guides, outfitters and dealers from coast to coast, the American Fly Fishing Trade Association respectfully asks you to use existing provisions within the Clean Water Act to proactively prohibit the development of Pebble Mine in Alaska.

Our members have a keen understanding of the relationship between intact fish and game habitat and sporting opportunity—and the economic impact that relationship generates, both in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and across the nation. Simply put, Pebble would destroy more than 90 miles of high-quality salmon spawning and rearing streams and put hundreds more miles of fishable salmon waters in peril for years and years to come. It’s too risky, and our members vehemently oppose the development of this mine in this location.

Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit development in sensitive watersheds, like the Bristol Bay watershed in southwest Alaska. This watershed is home

It always amazes me that trout have been introduced in so many places across the globe. When I was in Tasmania a few years ago, I visited Salmon Ponds, built in 1861 and the oldest trout-rearing facility in the Southern Hemisphere. There’s a little museum there that explains how the. . .

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Here are two great videos featuring dogs at play, and I liked them both so much that I couldn't decide between them. Which one is your favorite?

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We got about 10 inches of the white stuff yesterday, with more on the way for the weekend. So what better way to beat the winter blues than imagining yourself in the middle of the Pacific, on a tropical island, wading the. . .

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This is one story that doesn't seem to be going away. Reporting in The New York Times, David M. Herszenhorn focuses on a different group working to save the dogs of Sochi, which have been sentenced to death by Olympic officials. The stories of what has already occurred are. . .

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Guide Matt Miles with a sweet South Holston brown.
All photos by Pat Dorsey

It was a cold wintery day, one that would make three fellas question their sanity. It was 10 degrees and snowing hard on the South Holston last week. I guess it boiled down to us all being serious anglers because none of us wanted to. . .

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Reyna the dog with, left, Melissa Hartley, owner of Sindar Kennel and professional canine behavioral consultant, Jackie Kane and Amy Luarca, right.
Photo via Aiken Standard

A South Carolina went the extra mile for a stray dog she found on the side of the road, eventually rescuing a litter of puppies, as well: . . .

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The American Museum of Fly Fishing has announced it is seeking applications for the newly created job of Communications Manager. The position will be “the marketing voice of AMFF in person, online, and in print.”

Read more in the press release below.

From USAC:

CONTACT HOUSE RULES AND LEADERSHIP NOW!

It’s been 9 days since the session started, and HB37 is still stuck in the Rules Committee. It’s time to put the pressure on, and get the bill out of Rules! Show the legislature that this is a priority bill, and needs to be treated like one, by filling their inboxes!

We need you to email and/or call all members the House Rules committee AND House Leadership RIGHT NOW and let them know you support House Bill 37! Ask them to let HB37 out of Rules. If you want to see HB37 have a shot at becoming law, then we need to get this bill moving! We can only do that if you hammer the emails and phone calls! Even if you already sent an email – do it

From ASA:

Today the House of Representatives, in a bipartisan vote, passed the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, SHARE Act (H.R. 3590). While in the Senate, Sens. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014 (S. 1996). Both packages support increased access for recreational opportunities across the nation as well as the protection of our fishing and shooting heritage.

“The bipartisan vote in the House and bipartisan set of sponsors in the Senate highlight how conservation issues that impact sportsmen and women can cut through partisan politics,” said American Sportfishing Association (ASA) Vice President Gordon Robertson.

The original Sportsmen’s Act’s co-sponsors

We posted a photo of a monster Dutch pike caught by Kelvin Leenheer last week, and here's some video evidence of the kind of fish they catch from. . .

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Brian Fischler and his guide dog, Nash, ride the subway.
Photo via dogster.com

In a fascinating article on dogster.com, Brian Fischler goes into detail about his life with a guide dog, which he has needed since his eyesight deteriorated badly in 2009. One of the things that. . .

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Costa’s Isla in retro tortoise frame color with copper 580P lens.

From Costa:

Just in time for Spring Break 2014, Costa Sunglasses introduces three of its new styles for women: Isla, Blenny and Goby. Each one beautifully blends durable performance features with bright, colorful frames and an on-trend look.

Boasting a big, round eye with a medium fit, Isla comes in stylish frame color combinations including shiny black + coral, white + topaz, retro tortoise with black temples and scotch +

Written by: Dan Davala, Orvis Arlington

Just when he thought he'd failed in his quest for a tarpon, a stroke of good fortune came Jim Lampros's way.
Photo by Dan Davala

Last week, my good friend Jim Lampros (Fishing Manager at Orvis Cleveland) and I had the opportunity to escape the present Ice Age we're in and fly south to El Pescador in Belize. We decided to spend the majority of our time hunting tarpon, which are. . .

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We've got ourselves a blizzard going on up here in Vermont, so it's nice to imagine casting a fly somewhere warmer. . .like Texas. Here's a year-end roundup from All Water Guides, who chase. . .

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Ellen Winston and Sasha are a certified therapy team, through Professional Therapy Dogs of Colorado.
Photo via animalassistedtherapyprograms.org/

Here's a fascinating story from Colorado, about a therapist who uses a dog in one of the most tense and fraught situations of her profession: couples therapy. Ellen Winston—of Lakewood, Colorado—has an assistant named Sasha who. . .

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The success of Simon Perkins's video "Damsels in Distress"—which has hit 145,000 views in its first week—has a lot of people thinking about these insects. When I guided at Hubbard's Yellowstone Lodge in the mid-1990's, the damsel hatch on Merrell Lake was. . .

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Vlada Provotorova and friends place strays wherever they can.
Photo by David Filipov, via the Boston Globe

You may have already heard the chilling pronouncement by the mayor of Sochi, where the Olympic games are scheduled to start tomorrow, that all stray dogs in the city would be killed. A story in today's. . .

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The annual photography event of The Greenbacks of Trout Unlimited, Surface Film, will be held in Denver at the Anthology Fine Art Gallery on Thursday February 6th, 2014. The event will feature outstanding photographic work, with prints available for purchase to benefit conservation work for Colorado’s cold water fisheries.

Read more in the press release below.

The Waynesboro One-Fly,  sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley chapter of  Trout Unlimited, Waynesboro Tourism and the South River Fly Shop, is set to be held April 26, 2014. Teams of two anglers will compete with the one fly of their choosing, with all proceeds going to education and conservation programs of Shenandoah Valley Trout Unlimited.

Read more in the press release below. 

This redfish didn’t seem to care which hand I was reeling with.
Photo by Irene Kato

One would think that, after 25 years of fly fishing, I would be immune to ridicule for reeling with the “wrong” hand. But there I was just last month, on a boat off the coast off Lido Key, with a seasoned fly-fishing guide goofing on me. One of my. . .

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A beautifully spotted rainbow from Contact Creek in Katmai National Park.
Photo by Greg Senyo

Chasing trophy rainbow trout in Alaska is one of the great experiences in fly fishing, but the process can be different from what you're used to on your home water. If you're heading to a. . .

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Here's a great trailer for a documentary about autism service dogs, the lives that they touch, and of societies views on the world of autism. According to director Erin Corrado, one of her goals is to change the way people think of autism, and. . .

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From the AMFF:

The American Museum of Fly Fishing has announced its 2014 initiative to expand outreach through the use of digital technology.

AMFF, with the help of its Junior Committee, is expanding its communications and marketing strategy to ensure that a wider and younger audience becomes engaged, and to help maintain its position as an important member of the fly-fishing community. This internet-based strategy will be consistent with the Museum’s mission to offer public access to the research and information about the art, literature, and artifacts that represent angling history.

According to AMFF Executive Director, Cathi Comar, “In the past the Museum made this content available to the public through its quarterly journal The American Fly Fisher (published since 1974) and through exhibitions in its

From TU:

Trout Unlimited congratulated the House today for voting to reauthorize the Farm Bill and helping to keep trout and salmon resource conservation efforts in place across the nation. The House voted 251-166, in a strongly bipartisan vote, to approve bill produced by a House-Senate conference committee last week.

“We commend the House for its vote today, and we especially laud the remarkable work of the House-Senate Conference Committee which produced the new bill last week,” said Steve Moyer, TU’s vice president for Government Affairs. “The Conference Committee faced a number of major challenges with the bill.  But House Agriculture Committee Chair, Frank Lucas (R-OK), Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Members Representative Colin Peterson (D-MN) and Senator Thad Cochran (R-MI), and all of the Committee members, have done outstanding work.  The House approved bill is a masterpiece of effective compromise.”

“Despite the challenges facing the