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Summer Sojourns
Delaware's FinestThere once was a time when Matt, Adam, and I ate fire cooked spam off a stick for an entire week. Fast forward a few years and Matt is attempting to relive that experience in the woods...
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Thoughts on Fly Fishing for Carp
McTage's Trouser WormThis summer afforded me plenty of opportunity to fly fish for carp. In recent years, that hasn't exactly been the case because of travel, weddings, and family gatherings. For the...
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A Fly Rod's Greatest Hits
In memoriam...The favorite fly rod I have ever owned recently met an untimely end. In a bit of nostalgia, I went back into the archive to relive my Loop AEG 696-4's greatest hits...The rod was...
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The Maryland Unicorn
Fly fishing offers an excellent case study in intermittent reinforcement. Your next cast might connect you with The One and at some level you always expect it to. But that only ever happens once if...
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Two Saturdays in September
River carpin...Summer has a way of flying by, even for the teachers that don't have to work. My two months went by so fast, that I neglected a favorite river of mine and the many carp that call it...
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Stopgap
I've been jonesing to go to the Great Lakes tributaries to swing for some lake run fish for the past few weeks. Thankfully, I was able to resist going up for some salmon and my bank account officially...
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Rhea Steelhead Muddler
For steel...Over the years, the flies in my steelhead arsenal have gotten progressively smaller and I fish them in the middle to upper column. For the Salmon River, I've settled on flies in the 2-3...
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Getting into the Swing of Things...
Amped would be an understatement. Winter and my last swings for lake run salmonids seemed like a distant memory but the thought of hooking into a chrome steelhead fueled a few weeks worth of...
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Lifeline
First of the season...Super high expectations always tend to be quickly disappointing. Such was the case with the beginning of my steelhead season. The steelhead gods were not too kind to me and they...
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Money in the Bank
A Mid-November Winter WonderlandA planned retreat brought my girlfriend and I to the shores of Lake Ontario. We met up with some friends to stay at a lakehouse and fish the Salmon River for a few days....
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The Stinger Missile Fly
Steel on the stinger missile...During a winter storm in 2009, I concocted a fly for one of my first sessions ever swinging for steelhead. At the time, I was learning on a switch rod with a 510 Airflo...
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Players
Colors of GL steel...With the thought of several fishless days on my mind, I eagerly anticipated a day when everything would come together. Thankfully, I didn't have to wait too long because of an...
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My 2014 Alaska Guide Season: The Aftershock
© Barry & Cathy Beck (http://www.barryandcathybeck.com/)As some of you know, I spent my summer guiding and fishing at Reel Action Fly Fishing's Alaska Lodge located on the Kanektok River. I had an...
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The Fish of 2014
Stripers...2014 was another fine year for TRIW and our friends. A lot of nice fish were caught and some of them were downright beautiful. The year brought big time stripers with Tyler Nonn of Tidewater...
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Holiday Steel
A holiday well spent...With Christmas in the rearview mirror, Adam and I escaped north to swing for some steelhead. We were intent on landing some silver before ringing in the New Year. Over the course...
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A Steelhead Gathering
Got chrome?A steelhead gathering was conceived in the Fall to spend a few days fishing with some friends whom I have not fished with in quite sometime. Ben had just switched jobs and didn't have to...
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Variations of a Classic
The Al's Rat...I found myself stream side gearing up for something I had not done in a very long time, fly fish for trout on my home waters. I happened to be on one of the lesser known limestone...
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Cape Town Trout
We've been living in Tanzania for three years, and have saved a long break for a trip to Cape Town that we finally cashed in a few weeks ago. Last summer on our road trip through southern Africa, we...
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Muddy Mudskipper
The Muddy Mudskipper"The highlight of the day came on my hike back to the truck. I decided to focus on fishing streamers on my return journey. I chose a large sculpin with the idea of going big or...
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Forge
Even the most well known and widely trafficked streams harbor some sense of anticipation for the uninitiated. One's mind develops a mental image of what they think the stream looks like, behaves, and...
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