Those are the first two names of the founder of L.L. Bean, the giant U.S. outdoors goods company, which started inauspiciously in 1912 by offering refunds to its first 100 customers. Jerry Harkavy of the Associated Press writes about how L.L. Bean pulled itself up by its boot laces and survived potential bankruptcy in the 1960s to emerge as a massive player in the outdoors market. He also talks about the book L.L. Bean: The Making of an American Icon (Harvard Business School Press, 336 pages) just completed by L.L. Bean's CEO of 34 years and L.L. Bean's grandson, Leon Gorman.

By the way, L.L. Bean doesn't always get the recognition it deserves for publishing good fly fishing books. One worth mentioning is Macauley Lord's very popular L.L. Bean Fly-Casting Handbook, which is coming out in a revised edition in March. We'll be excerpting the new book on MidCurrent within the next few weeks.

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Sporting Fly Productions is coming out with a new high-definition Kenai River fly fishing video this week. Hosted by Dave Long, the video focuses on the Kenai's giant rainbows. The Kenai film will be followed by the second volume in the series, a DVD about the Fremont River in Utah, due to be released at the end of December. Both of these DVDs will be available online for $29.95 at www.sportingfly.com.

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A gift for the angler who has done it all: an extreme fly fishing excursion on board a luxury 32-crew-member cruise ship touring Patagonia and taking fly fishers via helicopter and zodiac to uncharted waters. As their press release says, "Designed for the adventurous and nature-loving at heart, ‘Nomads of the Seas’ comes equipped with a six passenger Bell 407 helicopter, six jet boats, six Zodiac for heli-fishing operations and a Zodiac Hurricane 920 with twin 250 hp four-stroke outboards for 16 passengers and two crew members." Read more at www.nomadsoftheseas.com.

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The folks at NZFishing.com have put up a nicely organized set of maps and links at their new Web site. By using their regional maps, you can access detailed info on specific New Zealand fly fishing waters. If you're scoping out New Zealand for the first time or considering a return trip, it's worth checking out their content.

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Seeking a source that provides three times the amount of water consumed by the entire city of Anchorage, Alaska, a Canadian mining company is planning to build a massive hard rock mine in the Bristol Bay watershed. As the draft BLM Resource Management Plan is currently open for comment, dozens of concerned groups are raising awareness of the potential for disastrous consequences for Bristol Bay salmon and other wildlife. Read the full press release on the Trout Unlimited Web site.

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Preserving the Rogue river in photographs was an idea that began as a commercial venture but became a labor of love for Roger Dorband, whose book The Rogue: Portrait of a River was recently published by Raven Studios. Paul Fattig writes about the book in the southern Oregon Mail Tribune. "His parents, Al and Alice Dorband, first moved to Grants Pass in 1939 after his father retired from the Navy to fish for the Rogue River steelhead that famed Western writer Zane Grey had written about in his book, Tales of Fresh Water Fishing." The Rogue: Portrait of a River on Amazon.

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One of the more intriguing facts about fly fishing literature is that the good stuff rarely goes out of style. Witness three books reviewed by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times in 1982. Datus Proper's What The Trout Said is called by some one of the most underrated fly fishing books of all time. And Art Lee's Fishing Dry Flies for Trout on Rivers and Streams is an acknowledged classic. "Datus C. Proper, an American Foreign Service officer who has fished all over the world, is a bit more sophisticated than Mr. Lee, at least as a writer. But his message is essentially the same: let us forget all the fancy stuff and listen to what the trout says. 'The trout and I do not share enough knowledge to sustain a good conversation on most subjects,' Mr. Proper writes in his impish manner."

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As more dam removal projects achieve notoriety in the U.S., it is worth reminding ourselves that without dams, some of the top trout spots in the country would still be lukewarm sloughs where irrigation dewatering made it impossible for fish of any species to survive. Think of Montana's Bighorn or Beaverhead rivers. Or, as Ed Stoddard notes in Scientific American, of Oklahoma's Lower Mountain Fork. In some places, dams provide technical fly fishing and the enchantment of complex ecosystems that goes along with it, no doubt involving people who would otherwise never be bothered. But as some point out, there are almost always downsides to damming a river, beyond those that are so obvious when talking about anadromous species like steelhead and Atlantic salmon. "'I personally spend a lot more time trying to remove dams than thinking about their benefits,' said Oregon-based Jack Williams, the senior scientist with conservation organization Trout Unlimited."

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More than pristine relic of Colorado's wilderness, Severy Creek on Pike's Peak holds a pure strain of Greenback cutthroat, a fish considered extinct by the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1937. So officials recently decided to continue a closure of the creek and the trail alongside it, hoping to protect the fish there from "aquatic hitchhikers" and other influences that might compromise the habitat. "The DOW has tested brook trout in lower regions of Severy Creek and found them to be disease-free, so they are hopeful they can perpetuate the greenback cutthroat species, thought to number around 100 to 150." Deb Acord in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

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In The New York Times, an Associated Press writer tackles the issues confronting the large-scale, multi-state effort to bring eastern brook trout populations back to self-sustaining levels. “'Rotenone is a very controversial tool,' said Curt Stager, an aquatic biologist at Paul Smith’s College in the northern Adirondacks. 'A lot of environmental groups are against it. Part of it is just the emotional horror of seeing a whole lake boiling with fish in their death throes. I’ve seen it, and it’s not attractive.'”

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Jim Robbins, the author of Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in the American West, writes at length about how migration to Montana and other western settling grounds for the U.S. population is creating an almost infinite number of "tears" in the fabric of wild places.

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Consultants hired by NOAA to draft an initial plan for restoration of the Columbia River estuary system are suggesting a long list of projects to remedy the loss of water flow and estuary area. "Working with consultants, the group identified threats to salmon and steelhead and put together a prioritized list of projects in the estuary to retore the species. The recommended investment for 23 estuary recovery projects is $500 million over the next 25 years." Cassandra Profita in the Astoria, Oregon Daily Astorian.

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Living 70 miles west of Key West -- in the Civil War era fort that imprisoned Dr. Mudd -- sounds isolating. But long-time Key Westers Eloise and Chuck Pratt found it so hard to leave that two years ago they broke down and cried on their first attempt. Why now? Because of shoddy phone service.

The story also caught my eye because I helped start a group called Reef Relief in 1987, and the Pratts had kept one of our posters on their far-out wall. Reef Relief's mission was to gain acceptance for a National Marine Sanctuary in the Keys. Without Federal involvement, we knew that the reef would fall victim to local infighting. Meanwhile, founders Craig and DeeVon Quirolo installed the first mooring buoys on the reefs, preventing further damage from anchors in heavily visited spots. Reef Relief achieved its goal to help bring attention to the reefs' decline, and on November 16, 1990, Congress passed Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act. We received a Presidential Point of Light award for our efforts. The Dry Tortugas was a central focus of the Sanctuary, because of its importance as a staging ground for fish reproduction and recruitment.

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"The state's fishing access program has about $269,000, [Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department spokesman Ron] Aasheim said. But the $15 million in Schweitzer's budget is the first major chunk of money dedicated to buying parks or access in a while." Jennifer McKee of the Lee's News Service.

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The Bighorn Trout Shop, which burned down on August 6, will be completed rebuilt by spring, according to Mike Stark of the Billings Gazette. Meanwhile the Yellowtail Market -- a gathering place for traveling anglers for many years -- will reopen this Thursday. "The cause of the fire was never determined by federal investigators, but they said no evidence was found to indicate arson or other criminal activity. The tragedy of the fire is still fresh in Fort Smith."

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The U.K. Independent lists its picks for best places to view wildlife in Britain, including the River Tweed. "The Tweed is one of the most important European rivers for salmon. Salmon born here migrate to Iceland and back. In autumn, they leap upstream. Head for Philiphaugh on the Ettrick, a tributary of the Tweed, where you can watch the salmon on underwater cameras."

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In restitution for our apparent snub of Cotter, Arkansas, yesterday (Cotter resident Judi Sharp commented that it's "Trout Capital, USA," not "Trout Town"), we'd like to say that not only does Cotter deserve mention as a fine place to live for someone who likes tailwater trout fishing, but they also have one of the best small-town Web sites we've seen. (Just check out the links page.) Show us another town of under 1,000 people that has this many fly shops, lodges, artists and folks who plain like where they live.

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Let's see. If Dallas-based fly fishing guide Ken Cole is starting his day at 4 AM and getting home at 10 PM after fishing Lower Mountain Fork River in southern Oklahoma, either he doesn't fish every day or he gets even less sleep than we do here at MidCurrent. Ed Stoddard describes the pace for Reuters: "'4 a.m. This is when I normally get up and pack the cooler box and check everything. I'm out of the house by 5 am.'"

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Just in time for Black Friday in the U.S., Stephen Regenold, proprietor of the TheGearJunkie.com, lists his 13 favorite outdoors gear items for gift giving this winter. Among them: the $79.95 Digital Hero Camera and the $32.95 Swiss Army Clipper Tool, which "is strong enough to snip wire, making it a tool perfect for fly fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities." In the Caspar, Wyoming Star-Tribune.

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"As I swung my wet fly through a large tail out of the Deschutes River, my line stopped dead -- and then promptly changed direction. It began moving back toward the middle of the run, and my blood turned as cold as the November water I stood in." Will Rice describes the magic moment, then goes on to tell about what makes the Deschutes a destination worth driving to. In the Denver Post.

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The Chamber of Commerce of Cotter, Arkansas has a new marketing plan to bring traffic to their tiny town. They are going to call themselves "Trout Town, USA." There's only one problem with the plan: a little place at the junction of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc, Roscoe, New York, has been known by that name for decades.

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As small dams around the country approach the end of their life spans, at-risk communities are finally recognizing the value in their removal. Such is the case with the Hersey River dam in Michigan, recently removed as part of an effort to restore flows in Muskegon River and its tributaries. "The first Hersey Dam was built in 1858, a mile from where the Hersey flows into Muskegon River and in the general vicinity of where Arctic grayling were discovered in Michigan in the 1850s." The challenge? There are 93 more dams to go. Jeff Alexander writes about it in the Muskegon Chronicle.

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Coloradans make a difference in their state's wildlife and conservation efforts. They vote for license fee increases. They helped create a Wildlife Management Public Education Advisory Council. And they don't mind paying for things like huge billboards featuring the native greenback cutthroat, which in 1959 was thought extinct but which now benefits from intensive long-term restoration efforts. Ed Dentry writes about all this in today's Rocky Mountain News.

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In the U.S., we worry about flubbed jokes. In Canada, they don't even care if the cameramen digitize out their "bits." Liberal party leadership candidate Bob Rae goes fly fishing and spontaneously jumps buck naked into a lake with RMR host Rick Mercer. "The skinny dipping stunt may have given Rae the kind of bounce Bill Clinton got from his 1991 sax stunt on Arsenio Hall. 'It was certainly a moment,' said Mercer." Bill Brioux in the Toronto Sun.

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Discover midges and you'll also discover that fly fishing doesn't end with the last Baetis hatch in November. "What got me interested in midges was the book, Midge Magic by Don Holbrook and Ed Koch (Stackpole Books, 2001). That, and watching Trout Babe (not her real name) land a fat 15-inch rainbow on a #22 midge tied to a 7X tippet on the Farmington River one afternoon." Nick Mills describes the source of his fascination with tiny flies: they are easy to tie, and they almost always catch fish. On MaineToday.com.

Midge Magic on Amazon.

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The U.K.'s Sunday Times excerpts another portion of Charles Rangeley-Wilson's dialogue from the new BBC series "The Accidental Angler,' this from Bhutan: "When trout were brought here from Kashmir, they were seeded into streams in the west of the country and only gradually taken east, finally as far as the Tang Chu, a remote and sacred river that is also the best trout stream in Bhutan."

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Wilma Paterson, the author of Salmon and Women, The Feminine Angle, suggests international fly fishing opportunities for women, encouraging involvement with this note: "It is well known -- if seldom mentioned in the male angling fraternity -- that three women hold the most coveted British salmon fishing records: for the biggest salmon ever caught on rod and line (Georgina Ballantyne), the biggest salmon ever caught on fly (Clementina Morison) and the biggest spring salmon (Doreen Davey)." In Scotland's Sunday Herald.

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"'When the water's high like this, you have to prospect and look for pockets that hold fish,' [guide Gerry McDaniel] said. 'That's what we were doing. It's just like deer hunting. You can be in a tree stand all day, and if they're not moving, you're probably not going to see many." Gerry McDaniel takes Gary Garth, Pat Carroll and McCauley Lord to fish Kentucky's Cumberland River tailwaters and meets the challenge of excess water. In the Courier-Journal.

McCauley Lord is head instructor for the L.L. Bean Fly Fishing School. You can read his advice on intermediate casting techniques in "Beyond Competence, Part I" and "Beyond Competence, Part II."

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New on MidCurrent: Paul Schullery writes about whether or not trout are really as lousy at the job of eating bugs as they seem to be. "If you've been fishing even a few years, you've watched a trout come up to your fly, give it a look, and turn away. That kind of rejection is discouraging, but at least it's a nice, simple message from the trout: 'I don't like this.' And at that point, you're welcome to apply whatever combination of stream savvy, folklore, and science you can muster -- to try a different fly, a different tippet, a different presentation, a different prayer, or a different fish." Read "Coping with Rejection," excerpted from Schullery's new book, The Rise.

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As we noted back in September (see "Alaska's Remarkable Rainbows"), some anglers are concerned that subsistence fishing by native tribes and local residents will endanger the large rainbow trout and salmon that have been the focus of Alaskan conservation efforts in recent years. Now a Federal board has decided that subsistence fishing takes priority in the upper Kenai Peninsula. "Friday's decision was not restricted to the two rivers, but covers all federal fresh waters on the Kenai Peninsula from the Kenai River watershed north. In large part it covers Kenai Lake, the Kenai River, the Russian River, Skilak Lake, the Swanson River and their tributaries on stretches that cross the Chugach National Forest and the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge." Brandon Loomis in the Anchorage Daily News.

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Like his dad, Larry Tusoni is a bit of a perfectionist, which is a good thing when it comes to building bamboo rods. "He is an expert at making pentagonal rods -- five pieces of cane cut and planed to exact angles and glued. On a whiteboard next to the bamboo canes, he shows why, mathematically, a pentagonal-shaped rod is stronger than the more popular hexagonal shape that other rod-makers use." You can read more about Tusoni's handiwork on the High Sierra Rod Company Web site. Amy Lindblom on UnionDemocrat.com.

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The last thing you'd call Mike's Williams's fish paintings and sculptures is "formulaic." His art will be on display at South Carolina's Columbia College for the next few weeks. "The exhibition includes his expressionist paintings of fish, marshes, swamps and coastal areas, as well as steel sculptures. The art always goes beyond straightforward depictions; it reflects his love of the outdoors and his spiritual connection to it." Jeffrey Day on TheState.com.

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Rob Brown pens a careful reminiscence of Bob Taylor, who passed away on July 6, in the Terrace, B.C. Standard. "It must've been a steelhead, I said, as excited as if I'd just hooked it. He agreed that a fish big enough to make a commotion large enough to spot at that distance had to be one of the few remaining ancestors of the summer steelhead that Bill Cunliffe and Tom Brayshaw provoked with trim versions of Atlantic salmon flies, they cast with silk lines and cane rods built by craftsmen for the House of Hardy." You can read more about Bob in this British Columbia Federation of Fly Fishers newsletter.

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Spey casting guru Simon Gawesworth will be demonstrating his flawless technique on the Bob Marriott casting ponds during the California store's annual Fly Fishing Educational Festival. "The 17th annual fair, returning to the Fullerton store after going offsite the past three years, is this weekend. Gawesworth will be on the demonstration pond, spey rod in hand, at 3 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday." Dave Strege in the OCRegister.

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Only weeks after achieving the reversal of a Interior Department ruling that could have lowered river flows to 300 cfs, conservationists were in Colorado's Gunnison River releasing 85,000 rainbow trout fingerlings. "The stocking was the latest attempt to mitigate the impact of six years of whirling disease on rainbows in the river. It came seven weeks after conservationists won a lawsuit against a Bush administration deal to give up the national park's 1933 water right to help Colorado businesses and cities that held lesser water rights." Ed Dentry in the Rocky Mountain News.

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Del Milligan writes about Phil Chapman -- Florida conservationist, guide and fly fisher -- in Lakeland, Florida's The Ledger. "Chapman studied marine biology at Florida State, went to work for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in Lakeland as a fishery biologist and made a lasting impact in conservation."

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"The agency had denied federal protection for the fish in 2004, prompting the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, based in Laramie, and the Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, Ariz., to take the agency to court. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington found that the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to follow its own procedures." In the Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune.

Meanwhile the Interior Department seems content to ignore the potential impacts of leasing public land for experimental oil shale projects in Wyoming.

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David Belcher reviews the BBC's new fly fishing series "The Accidental Angler," starring Charles Rangeley-Wilson, and likens it to tepid soup, though clearly the producers had something different in mind. "Knowing this, you can see what the Beeb bosses were thinking: 'An informed show for anglers -- of whom there are millions -- which also has something for those multi-millions of non-anglers who like looking at foreign scenery while someone comments on it in a wryly-amusing fashion! Michael Palin meets Thomas McGuane -- it's a ratings winner.'" In the U.K.'s The Herald.

Meanwhile a passage from Charles Rangeley-Wilson himself appears in the U.K.'s The Independent: "I was lucky enough to get commissions that took me, like Farson, to some far-flung corners. Those 10 years have taken me to every continent -- except the polar ones -- on the trail of all sorts of weird and wonderful fish, in awe-inspiring landscapes."

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Samuel Shultis expresses an alternative opinion in the recent war of ideas over how to save the Batten Kill: stop loving it -- and Manchester, Vermont -- to death. "What we have in the demise of the Batten Kill is an example of tourism on steroids. It was not that many years, Ken, when the fishing in the river was darn good. Imagine the effects of the asphalt runoff for a moment: the increased heating of the stream, the oils, human and animal wastes, solvents, all running down hill, so to speak, into the river." In the Rutland, Vermont Herald.

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A normal, living, breathing human inhabitant of the northern hemisphere greets mid-January with all the enthusiasm of a slug. The holidays are truly over, the wind is intolerable, and even avid fly tiers are counting the days until spring. But if you plan on being anywhere near San Francisco, California between January 11 and 14, you'll be in reach of a guaranteed mood-changer: the International Sportsmen's Exhibition in San Mateo, just south of the San Francisco airport. From the "Best-of-the-West" fly casting competition to a full schedule of presentations by fly fishing's luminaries, the ISE shows have a reputation for being great entertainment, and the San Mateo show is the most popular of them all.

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Weather.com recently unveiled the beta of a cool interactive map based on Microsoft's upgraded Virtual Earth service. The map shows real-time precipation in either satellite or road-map views -- pretty handy for lots of uses, including figuring out whether to pack the fly-weight shell or the vulcanized rubber. (Thanks to reader Grant Carter for this link.)

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In the 1960s, the Corp of Engineers bulldozed the bed of the Truckee River as part of a "flood-control" project. Now scientists are counting the benefits of restoration done by the Nature Conservancy: 15 miles of spectacular fishing. "As part of its $8 million project to restore the river at McCarran Ranch, the Nature Conservancy installed several riffles in 2003. Crews finished installing more riffles -- using rock removed for construction of Reno's train trench -- late last month." Jeff Delong in the Reno Gazette-Journal.

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After California's recent spate of fires, communities are taking action to prevent ash from damaging endangered steelhead and salmon habitat. Fire restoration crews attempt to prevent erosion with tree branches, wattles and bulldozed berms. "When sediment reaches a creek, it settles between pebbles — the same place many fish lay their eggs. If the bottom is silted over, fish fail to reproduce. Sediment also muddies the water, killing off plant life and hence a food source for fish and other wildlife. Sometimes sediment, if severe enough, directly kills aquatic life." Suzanne Bohan in the San Mateo County Times.

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"'I had a flats boat, and even though it had a very shallow draft, I couldn't get it back to where the redfish were. They'd be so shallow you could see their backs. You couldn't wade because even though the water was shallow, if you got out you'd sink to your armpits in mud. So I started using a kayak.'" Jimbo Meador, former guide and now vice president of Legacy Paddlesports, the North Carolina company that makes the Native kayak we reviewed at the Fly Fishing Retailer Show in August. Gary Garth in the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal.

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Seems like every week you can find a story of someone taking chances they shouldn't, especially as the weather turns cold. In the November/December issue of Gray's Sporting Journal, author Pete Fromm tells the story of a father and son caught in a blizzard.

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Howard Films let us know yesterday that their new film on fly fishing for tarpon will air on Versus/OLN on December 1st at 7PM and 11PM EST (8PM Pacific), not November 16 as previously reported. Apparently the network is pretty excited about the film and wants more time to promote it.

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Nick Gosling took a trip to the "Spawning Spectacular" at the Craig Brook Hatchery in Orland, Maine and described in vivid detail how arranged marriages between Atlantic salmon actually work. In the Ellsworth American.

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