Swing the Fly Summer 2015

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Stories that make the Chum want to freebase Zap-A-Gap

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“There are some serious fishermen with resources who won’t go anywhere without a private room and Wi-Fi,” he said.

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The PTSD River Cure

Outside Magazine serves up a great profile of Soul River founder Chad Brown.

Chad Brown put down a gun and picked up a fly-fishing rod. The Navy veteran turned gear designer now wants kids and vets to heal each other on the great American waters that saved his life.

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This Company Wants to Be the Uber of Guides

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With more than 27,000 guides nationwide operating as part of the $1 billion outdoor industry, you’d think it’d be easy to book a fishing trip in Colorado. Turns out it’s not, something James Hamilton, a lifelong fly-fisherman and backcountry skier, discovered firsthand.

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Backcountry tips from fly-fisherwoman Madeline Brenneman

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From New Mexico to Colorado to her next adventures around the world, fly-fishing maven Maddie Brenneman is charting her own course.

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Fly fishing method and apparatus

A hook-less fly crafted on a core other than a hook is described for attachment to a line at a material distance from a distal circle hook. One or more fly(s) may be attached to a single line at a point above a single circle hook. The separation on the line of hook from fly requires only the fly to enter the fish's mouth. The hook, when a fish takes the fly, is externally located. Striking the rod in response to the fish taking the fly draws the line through the fish's mouth and engages the distally located circle hook into the outer jaw.

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You may remember it as the Moffit System.