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"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown." That quote from one of my favorite movies came to mind this past Tuesday as I reeled up, placed my fly...

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I once asked a famous photographer friend of mine to write a foreword for a book I had written. He wrote in there that my obsession for...

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One of the added benefits of working in a fly shop on one of the nation's top trout streams, is that you get to meet a lot of really cool...

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