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A Day of Brook Trout and Mountain Goats

October 27, 2016 6 Comments

I took a bit of time the other day to hit up a local lake. When I first started thinking about heading out there, I hadn’t planned on doing serious fishing. Just a bit of shore fishing and maybe a stop or two on the drive to see what the creek that flows out of that […]

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Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks – Fly Fishing With My Dad

October 17, 2016 4 Comments

Fall is in full swing here. The nice weather is happening less often; the poplars have started turning, adding nice golden yellow patches to the hillsides and we’ve seen frost on more than one occasion. As part of the usual fall celebrations, we had ourThanksgiving last week here in Canada. Since my wife works weekends, it […]

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5 Surprising Ways Fishing Can Make You A Better Parent

October 10, 2016 2 Comments

About a year before my daughter was born, I got my first fly rod. Next to the birth of my daughter, it proved to be one of the most transformative things that ever happened to me. Over the course of that one year I went from a casual angler to being obsessed with fishing to […]

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