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CalTrout Meet-up: All Things Steelhead

Friends: I will be joining my fellow CalTrout Ambassadors for an event on steelhead in San Francisco. The info: CalTrout Meet-up: All Things Steelhead CalTrout Ambassadors are hosting a get-together at Lost Coast Outfitters to talk all things steelhead. George Revel, Lost … Continue reading

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Podcast: Fly Fishing Kamchatka with Justin Miller

Justin Miller is one of the world’s greatest experts on fly fishing in Kamchatka. In a new episode of The Venturing Angler Podcast, he and I discuss fly fishing for aggressive trout in Eastern Russia, the Kamchatka Steelhead Project, cherry … Continue reading

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Petition: No Strip Mining at Oregon’s Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers

Trout Unlimited is calling on supporters to sign a petition to protect the Kalmiopsis region of Oregon free from the threat of strip mining. The petition demands a 20-year mineral withdrawal from the region to thereby protect wild salmon, steelhead, … Continue reading

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Game Changer

After many years, a lifelong dream was fulfilled last weekend on the Trinity River in Northern California. As a kid, I took float trips with my uncle Jim in the mountain rivers of West Virginia. We would spend all day … Continue reading

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Keeping it close in 2016 … maybe …

It’s been a great few weeks of fly fishing. It has also been a period of planning, as 2016 is right around the corner, and I am planning my fly fishing resolutions. The hip replacement was a setback. There’s nothing … Continue reading

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Petition: Protect Olympic Peninsula Steelhead

Steelhead advocate, Shane Anderson, has launched a petition on Change.org to protect Olympic Peninsula wild steelhead. The petition asks that the Statewide Steelhead Management Plan from the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission in 2008 be enacted in order to establish … Continue reading

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Back to the Trinity River

It had been about 14 years since last wading the water’s of Northern California’s Trinity River, and the return was just as glorious (and daunting) as the first visit. The memories of my first trip to the Trinity are vivid, … Continue reading

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