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Despite a very hard-earned engineering degree, I can’t quite get the physics to add up
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At the intersection of passions there often lies magic
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Costa is turning discarded fishing nets into sunglasses
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Costa is turning discarded fishing nets into sunglasses
The new 'Untangled' collection is helping to reclaim one of the most destructive forms of plastic in the ocean
We are starving the last of our Puget Sound killer whales to death
Only 75 southern resident killer whales remain
RIO wants you to know exactly how lousy your casting is
Knowledge is power
Your rivers and lakes up for grabs
What will states do with water that used to belong to all Americans?

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Tips & Technique

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Multi-purpose flies
Up your odds by choosing flies that can be fished using a variety of presentations
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5 big fish fighting tips to consider before you cast
Avoiding the walk of shame
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Fly fishing Q&A: Mousing at night
Insights on chasing big fish with small rodents—at night

Latest Conservation

We are starving the last of our Puget Sound killer whales to death
Only 75 southern resident killer whales remain
Your rivers and lakes up for grabs
What will states do with water that used to belong to all Americans?
Republican senator, groups fight to save beloved conservation program
Pending expiration of the Land and Water Conservation Fund puts hundreds of projects at risk
Today is the last day to speak up on Pebble Mine (again)
It's time for common sense to prevail once more

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Travel

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Middle Lake
That bright memory is tangled with another, darker one
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That guy
On most fishing trips, there's one
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The old fart bar
Where you’re a stranger for as long as it takes you to sit down at the bar

Latest Blog

The great bread hatch
On days of failure an angler may be said to go through four stages of feeling
Lose a loved one, gain a new one, and the water welcomes them both
Life cycles, renewal
Which anglers have influenced your fly fishing?
Todd Tanner shares his "dream team"
Today is the last day to speak up on Pebble Mine (again)
It's time for common sense to prevail once more

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Photography

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Jersey shore
Its beaches along the Atlantic are the crown jewel of New Jersey's myriad angling opportunities
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Greenland rising
North to the land of reindeer and char
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The Savan
Floating Kamchatka's everything river

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The 6wt E
At the intersection of passions there often lies magic
Costa is turning discarded fishing nets into sunglasses
The new 'Untangled' collection is helping to reclaim one of the most destructive forms of plastic in the ocean
RIO wants you to know exactly how lousy your casting is
Knowledge is power
Wet wading footwear
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    The great bread hatch

    Every day, fishing is an adventure. Today, Mauro and I went to the Slough, hoping to key in on what we call the “Decker hatch,” chasing the 500,000 smolt released by the...

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    Lose a loved one, gain a new one, and the water welcomes them both
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    Which anglers have influenced your fly fishing?

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    Green menace
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    The Littering Fisherman
  • PHOTOGRAPHY

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    By most, New Jersey is thought of as a concrete badlands, conjuring an image of a landscape predominated by stacked and twisted highways, smokestacks and warehouse...

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    2013 Photo Contest Results
    2013 T&T Photo Contest Winners
    Salmon Kanektok River
    Alaska's Kanetok: From Source to Sea
  • TRAVEL

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    Middle Lake

    Below Elizabeth Falls, where it thunders out of Black Lake, the Fond du Lac du Nord relaxes. The river sprawls across a boulder-studded delta, braiding into pools and...

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    That guy
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    The old fart bar

    From the Archives

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    Middle Lake
    Permit
    Turneffe Flats Honored with Green Globe Certification
  • CONSERVATION

    Latest Conservation

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    We are starving the last of our Puget Sound killer whales to death

    Our southern resident killer whales (SRKW), the local, salmon-eating orcas, are starving to death. And the small size of the king salmon we boated this summer has had me...

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    Your rivers and lakes up for grabs
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    Republican senator, groups fight to save beloved conservation program

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    Catching bonefish and tarpon, for science
    USFS wildfire caribou targhee national forest
    How federal agencies go from respected to reviled
  • REVIEWS

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    Review: The Feather Thief

    The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson proves the old adage that "truth is stranger than fiction." Though entirely non-fiction, The Feather Thief...

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    Review: Sage DART fly rod
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    Review: Orvis Plier

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    Simms G3 Guide Waders for Women
    Review: Women's Waders - Simms G3 Guide Waders for Women
    Airflo Chard Tropical Punch - Bruce Chard
    Review: Airflo Chard's Tropical Punch fly line
  • TIPS

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    Multi-purpose flies

    When I first saw the outflow of the Wheeler River, where trophy Arctic grayling were rumored to stage and wait for Russell Lake’s slow-moving current to deliver all sorts...

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    5 big fish fighting tips to consider before you cast
    big brown trout at night
    Fly fishing Q&A: Mousing at night

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    Pennsylvania's Lehigh River in Autumn
    A Few Early Autumn Fly Fishing Tips
    Dolly varden eats bead.
    5 Reasons Beads are Better Than Egg Fly Patterns
  • NEWS

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    Costa is turning discarded fishing nets into sunglasses

    You'd be hard pressed these days to find someone who hasn't heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. First discovered in 1997 by yachtsman Charles Moore, the great patch...

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    We are starving the last of our Puget Sound killer whales to death
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    RIO wants you to know exactly how lousy your casting is

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    Grim Picture Painted by Final EPA Assessment of Mining in Bristol Bay
    The Drifter Covert fly rod.
    Drifter intros new, 'ideal' fly rod for technical trout fisherman
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