Monday, September 14, 2015 at 12:00AM
Eddie Bauer came up with the idea for his lightweight down insulated jacket after almost freezing to death steelhead fishing on the Olympic Peninsula.
LINK (via: Mental Floss)
Friday, September 4, 2015 at 12:02AM Leon Gorman, who led L.L. Bean’s growth into a global giant, passed away yesterday at the age of 80.
LINK (via:The Portland Press Herald)
legends of fly fishing, ll bean, rip in Legends Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 12:00AM 
Ernest Hemingway first arrived at the Clarks Fork River valley on July 13, 1931, bouncing along Yellowstone National Park's gravel roads in a Ford Model A roadster until he reached one of the wildest places in America.
Hemingway was 31, looking for a place to hunt, fish and write, looking to get away from Key West's heat and anyone who fawned over the best–selling author of "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms." He was seeking something wilder and more adventurous than the Sheridan area he'd visited in 1928 on his first trip to Wyoming.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:00AM bud lilly, legends of fly fishing in Legends Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 12:12AM A commentary on fly fishing as only Tom Brokaw could tell it.
Monday, June 29, 2015 at 12:10AM 
"Joe changed our fly fishing world as no one else has. If you are an avid fly fisherman and under the age of 50, chances are you have never heard of Joe Brooks, but you owe him a debt of gratitude. One of Joe's greatest gifts to fly fishermen is that he opened up the world to all those who followed. Fly fishermen today jump on airplanes to test the waters of the upper Amazon Basin, the trout streams and lakes of New Zealand, and the distant atolls of the South Pacific. But no one dared or thought of this until Joe opened up the doors."
-Lefty Kreh
This is a film about a man who was the epitome of the word “sportsman.”
