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Photographer and Guide Jeff Forsee Reckons With Flyfishing Obsession
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Desert Fly Fishing and Bikepacking: SHIFTING GEARS
Supported by Orvis, Fat Tire, & Yakima. In October 2021, a group of friends in southern Utah set out on a 58-mile bike tour with plans to fish several alpine lakes along the way. But as so often happens with...
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How to Think About Bob Clay
The legend of Bob Clay is already well established: He’s one of the finest bamboo rod builders and steelhead fishermen on earth. To cast one of his cane spey rods is to feel the rhythm of nature. To fish with...
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Surrendering to the Flow with Harry Desmond
Harry Desmond spends over 200 days a year on the water, spring through fall. But during winter when he’s not out as often, he feels a bit disconnected both mentally and physically. He believes that nature has this way of...
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FINDING DOLLYSQUATCH
With support from: Orvis, Fat Tire, and Yakima Some animal species are indicators of ecosystem health—the proverbial canary in a coal mine. In the case of Washington state’s North Cascade Mountains, two such species are Dolly Varden trout and Sasquatch,...
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Stuck in the Weeds
Though the term “bushwhacking” might initially call to mind images of grueling humps through brush-choked, trailless forest with nothing aside from a faint game trail for guidance, in this day and age, when everyone, everywhere just wants to get away...
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River Economics
I swig juicy IPA on the tailgate before lacing up wading boots on this, my 37th birthday. I used to fish this river every night until dark, but now I’ve hardly caught a trout all summer. Five years ago, with...
Conservation
Modern Day Monkey Wrenching
Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang narrates the story of four dissident saboteurs who grow increasingly enraged by the industrial assaults on the desert Southwest throughout the 1960s and ’70s. To them, destruction took the form of development—road networks, strip...
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Millhouse in PDX
With support from Orvis, Fat Tire, and Yakima. When pro skateboarder Dave Gravette was sidelined with injuries a few years ago, he found himself in need of some new demons to chase. As a Pacific Northwest native with a wild...
Adventure
Recording Sherbro Island
The body of water between Bonthe at the eastern end of the island and the mainland, called Sherbro Strait, is a record tarpon factory. In April 1992, Sierra Leone was in the beginning stages of what would become a decade-long...
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NIGHTHAWKS
I fish 17 days of the late-spring hatchery Chinook season just a short drive from my Bellingham, WA home. Mostly alone, I walk looking for things—things for my camera, for my fly. Inspect side channels, logjams, bushwhack the long way...
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SPINY RAY RESCUE
Species: Bass Date: Too Early Location: Whatcom County Ponds The lily pads are moving in the petroleum ponds, stirred by gentle pushes of water from what I only hope is the golden olive-slabbed side of a respectable bass. I am...
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THE DUKES OF HOPEDALE
“Lightning in a Bottle” Sometimes you just don’t know how the words you put in a story will ultimately play out. Sometimes, after they print, you want to take them back. And sometimes, you realize you nailed it right away,...