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  • Favorite Two-Handed Winter Steelhead Setups

    Favorite Two-Handed Winter Steelhead Setups

    There is a strange group of anglers that prefers fishing in the worst conditions.  Wind, snow, rain, sleet, all in the depths of winter.  No one ever describe the Washington Coast as pleasant in the winter, yet a dedicated group...

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  • Setting Up Two-Handed Steelhead Rod

    Setting Up Two-Handed Steelhead Rod

    Using a two-handed (spey or switch) rod to catch steelhead is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend some time on the water.  The biggest hurdle for folks is that the setups are confusing.  We will show you the...

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  • Searching Patterns and Techniques

    Searching Patterns and Techniques

    Searching patterns seems to be the current preferred terminology, attractor patterns, is another, and there are probably more. The idea is we, the fly fisher arrive at the water, and for one reason or another we don’t know where to begin....

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  • Lake Fly Fishing in Autumn

    Lake Fly Fishing in Autumn

    They spend all summer escaping the heat, in depths that are useless to the fly fisher, the they are trout, depending on your lake or lakes, they could be rainbow, cutts, brook  or brownies, and they all come alive once...

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  • Fly Fishing Stillwaters with Midges

    Fly Fishing Stillwaters with Midges

    Lakes, ponds, impoundments, reservoirs that have healthy trout populations, probably have healthy midge populations as well.  Midges are like nature’s trout candy store that is always open.  They will hatch daily, rise daily, suspend daily.  When you arrive at your favorite still...

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  • The Visible Trout

    The Visible Trout

    At first glance you cannot believe your luck.  You have waited all week or month or year to arrive at this spot on the river, during this hatch, the conditions are perfect, nirvana.  And to add to this the trout...

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