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Podcast: Late Summer Terrestrials, with Jenny Mayrell-Woodruff

August 20, 2025 0 Comments

  [Interview starts at 40:26] This week, Tom Rosenbauer posted a classic podcast from 2018, in which he talks to Jenny Mayrell-Woodruff—the Orvis-endorsed Freshwater Guide of the Year for that year. Jenny now lives in Norfork, Arkanasas, and she took time out of her very busy schedule to share her knowledge of Read more
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Tying Tuesday: From the Catskills to the Bass Pond

August 19, 2025 0 Comments

This week’s Tying Tuesday features three very different patterns that relate to different corners of the sport. First, Hogan Brown of Loon Outdoors teaches us to tie a jig-nymph pattern with an ominous-sounding name. Next, Matt O’Neal of Savage Flies shares an all-purpose Catskills-style dry fly that should work as both a prospecting pattern Read more
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Wild-Trout Advocates Face a Battle in Pennsylvania

August 18, 2025 0 Comments

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is proceeding with a controversial plan to stock and study a Class A wild trout water. Photos courtesy of Pennsylvania Council Trout Unlimited The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is proceeding with a controversial plan to stock and study a Class A wild trout water. Critics claim Read more
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Non-Native Fish to be Removed from Parts of Rocky Mountain National Park

August 17, 2025 0 Comments

A section of the western side of Rocky Mountain National Park will close for the final week of August, as state biologists work to remove all non-native fish from the Grand Ditch and its tributaries within the park. This will allow for the reintroduction of greenback cutthroat trout—Colorado’s state fish—to their native range in the Read more
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Video: How a Fly Reel is Made

August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Do you understand how bar stock becomes a “puck” and then a reel spool or frame? In this cool video from The New Fly Fisher, design engineer Dan Hurford walks us through the machining processes that take raw metal and turn it into a beautiful, functional Abel fly reel. The modern machines—as well as human […] Read more
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Video About Joe Humphreys Wins National Student Journalism Award

August 15, 2025 0 Comments

A video feature about legendary Penn State fly-fishing instructor Joe Humphreys—which aired last October on the “Centre County Report” newscast—earned its producer, Haley Jacobs, a national student Edward R. Murrow Award. The three-minute-long segment, “Trout and Tradition: The Legacy of Joe Humphreys,” focuses on the milestones of Read more
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