Hiking a cobble shore, Wayne and I make our way upriver, keeping a keen eye to the water. There is a long, smooth, piece of water that is a little darker than the rest. It is a deep run, and I am curious. I wade out wet, in my running shoes and sh
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The COVID pandemic has created a "rush" on the outdoors the likes of which has never been seen. People are buying up bikes, camping equipment and fishing equipment like never before. Fishing is the perfect sport for these times, it is outside, soc
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Fly-Fishing Leaders - Keep It Simple

Leaders are the all-important invisible connection between your fly line and your fly. Understanding this link should be easy but, as so often happens, the near endless nu
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It was the middle of an Alberta mid-summer in that madness which sometimes is Pigeon Lake and we were plowing our way down-lake through what’s known in the business as a "walleye chop". Pigeon is one of a handful of central Alberta
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