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blog BY brennan.sang ON June 7 - 0 COMMENTS
Claret Bumble
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  I love the way the mix of the blue head hackle and the claret dubbing came together on this one. Fly by Peter McCallum. Hook: size 10, for this I have used a Kamasan B175Thread: BlackTail: Golden Pheasant TippetRib: Fine gold ovalBody: Claret Seals fur, or substituteBody hackle: Black Cock [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY jschoen ON January 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Mean seasons
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    This is a time of year when I assiduously check the temperature forecast for the daily mean. If the high and low add up to less than 64F (or mean of 32), I can hope for ice accumulating on a pond near my house.  It’s been an unusually warm winter in New England.  Unusual, but not [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY jschoen ON November 25 - 0 COMMENTS
Fish for the watching
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  Hop brook is a small, 2nd or probably 3rd order wooded stream about 2 miles from my house. It has wild brookies in it, but I haven’t yet gotten around to fishing it. I do spend a fair bit of time watching it, especially in November. It flows into Quabbin Reservoir, which supports a healthy run [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY damonhearne ON November 4 - 0 COMMENTS
New Fly Fishing E-Zine for the Southeast - S.C.O.F
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Put together by friend and fellow Land O' Sky chapter member David Grossman.  Nice design, sweet pics and a cool little article on native trout. Southern Culture on the Fly
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blog BY ThreeShotGringo ON October 6 - 0 COMMENTS
Pebble mine: A vote for Southwest Alaska's future?
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After Greg Anelon, from Newhalen, squeezed himself into a booth at Spenard Road House in Anchorage Thursday night, he got himself settled and serious, momentarily. "I love spending Pebble's money," he said, pausing before slapping the table and laughing a big, hearty laugh. It was a gesture Anelon [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ThreeShotGringo ON October 6 - 0 COMMENTS
World markets, local opposition cause investors to be skittish on Pebble mine
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As voters in the Lake and Peninsula Borough cast their ballots Tuesday on whether they supported one of the world's largest gold and copper mines in their backyard, traders on Wall Street were sending their own message. On Tuesday, trading of the stock of Northern Dynasty -- which makes up 50 [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ThreeShotGringo ON October 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Proposed Alaska Mine Faces Fierce Opposition
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NPR Interview:   In Alaska's picturesque Bristol Bay region, developers are looking to build an enormous copper and gold mine. They promise the effort will be carried out in an environmentally responsible way — and provide area jobs. But fisherman, conservationists and native groups have joined [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ThreeShotGringo ON October 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Two days, Three Rivers, Twelve Miles…
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It has been a while since I posted anything. It has been a lot more of the same. It is still fin but I got a little busy and decided to not post. Well a lot has changed since the last report. The snow is melting fast and the runoff is making the Pecos fairly difficult to fish. So it was decided to [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ThreeShotGringo ON October 4 - 0 COMMENTS
San Juan one year later
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Almost a year to the day has gone by since my last trip to the San Juan. Last year at this time we were headed to the Navajo reservation to spend spend Christmas at Toadlena trading post. If you are not familiar with with Northern NM Toadlena is a trading post that was setup around around 1909 [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ThreeShotGringo ON October 4 - 0 COMMENTS
Rio Santa Barbara
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A while back we fished the Rio Santa Barbara in the East Pecos Wilderness. You can get a good idea of the terrain from the video in my previous post. I am glad I got that footage up because it might be all we have as I await the diagnoses of my damaged Macbook. It got a little bath yesterday and [ READ MORE... ]
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