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Interview: Photographer Tosh Brown
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MidCurrent photo editor Tim Romano interviews Tosh Brown for us this week and discovers that the Austin-based photographer and part-time publisher has many interests, but most of them seem to involve redfish, tarpon, or ill-mannered bird dogs....
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:43:58 +0000
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Stripping Baskets for Trout
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Think stripping baskets are only for saltwater anglers? Think again. Combine twigs, brambles, wind and water with a stripped fly line and you have the recipe for a tangled mess. There's always Leon Chandler's classic hand-twist retrieve, Phil Monahan says,...
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midcurrent.com
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:54:02 +0000
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Podcast: Tom Rosenbauer on Fly Fishing with Streamers
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Tom's 100th podcast for Orvis focuses on streamer techniques and offers several ways to improve this "very active way of fishing." If you want to catch big trout, Tom says, fish streamers. "Bear in mind that only a certain percentage...
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midcurrent.com
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:46:00 +0000
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Permit Get Reprieve from Florida Wildlife Officials
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Permit, one of Florida's most popular gamefish, will get a second look from state officials, who have been considering extended state law into federal waters and allow for spearing of the fish. As Kevin Wadlow quotes an FWC spokesman in...
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midcurrent.com
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:45:38 +0000
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Jackson Hole's Jack Dennis Sports Sues Its Namesake
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Jack Dennis Sports investors haven't taken kindly to the well-known guide and author's opening of Jack Dennis Fishing Trips a block away from their store, according to Amy Schenck in the Jackson Hole Daily. "Among other allegations, partners in the...
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midcurrent.com
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:44:52 +0000
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Profile: Joe Humphreys
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Chris Rosenblum profiles trout master Joe Humphreys, who at 81 thinks of fly fishing as a fountain of youth. "'I'm 81, but today, I was 26,' he says after two hours with Spruce Creek, his old friend. 'I take that...
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midcurrent.com
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:44:52 +0000
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Tippets: "Bobrocks," Learning About Fire, Vance Bourjaily Dies
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Come back as a river stone: in honor of her fly-fishing father, Kathy Presnell makes custom glass stones that contain a loved one's ashes. Bloodsports and danger: Young men learn about fire by playing with it, says "sports law...
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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:44:52 +0000
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MidCurrent Blogging Live from IFTD Show
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MidCurrent will be blogging live from the International Fly Tackle Dealer show in Denver, Colorado next week. The show runs Thursday through Saturday, September 9 through 11 at the Colrado Convention Center, and the fact that this will be the...
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midcurrent.com
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:47:37 +0000
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Keys Guides Ask for Stricter Rules for Permit, Snook Ban Extended
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Keys guides yesterday asked the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to postpone voting on revised rules for permit and African pompano, which include allowing divers to spear them in state waters. In a related story, the Commission voted 7-0...
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midcurrent.com
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:47:37 +0000
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Video Hatch: TU Central Oregon Trout Festival and Orvis Casting Games
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MidCurrent's Glenn Pittard recently had a chance to "cast on grass" at the only known fly fishing golf course in North America -- Orvis's spread on the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon and covered it in detail last month. The...
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midcurrent.com
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:47:37 +0000
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Simms Launches "Wader Rebate" Program
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Yesterday Simms announced a voucher program for anglers who want to trade in their old breathable waders (any brand) for a new pair of Simms waders. Bringing in those beaters will net you $50 towards a pair of G4Z, G4...
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midcurrent.com
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:48:21 +0000
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North Carolina Court Gives Go-Ahead on Trout Stream Development
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In a major setback for anglers and conservationists, last week the N.C. Supreme Court issued a ruling that virtually negates a state law requiring "undisturbed" buffers for trout streams. "The Court's decision leaves vulnerable thousands of miles of designated trout...
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midcurrent.com
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:47:24 +0000
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"Fly Rod & Reel" Announces Robert Traver Writing Awards
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Fly Rod & Reel Magazine has announced the 2010 winners of the Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award, fly-fishing's only major writing award, co-sponsored with the magazine by the John D. Voelker Foundation. First Place: "Two Men in a Museum," by...
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midcurrent.com
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:47:24 +0000
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Salmon-Counting Biologists Die in Helicopter Crash
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Fish and Game biologists Larry Barrett and Danielle Schiff along with pilot Perry J. Krinitt died yesterday when the helicopter they were using to count salmon nests on the Selway river crashed in downtown Kamiah, Idaho. "Resident Mick Landmark said...
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midcurrent.com
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:51:34 +0000
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Fly Fishing for Colorado Pike
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Colorado pike fishing recovers from an August lull when temperatures begin to cool, says Karl Licis in this morning's Denver Post. "Pike may be spotted cruising in the shallows; they might be lying nearly motionless near the edge of weed...
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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:51:34 +0000
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