Play out Quint's bloody demise

"I'm not talkin' 'bout pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'!

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Klyn chills after miles of Patagonia missions

Photo Courtesy University of Dayton

Paul Bruun with a fitting tribute to our friend, and now former collegue, Bill Klyn. Bill recently retired after a 26 year run at Patagonia.

LINK (via: The Jackson Hole News and Guide)

S. 1448: A bill to designate the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary in the State of Oregon

Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced a bill to designate more than 100,000 acres of public lands in Oregon as the “Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary.”

The Oregon senators named their legislation in honor of Frank Moore because of his outstanding accomplishments starting in World War II and then continuing for nearly two decades as the proprietor of the Steamboat Inn along the North Umpqua River. Throughout his life, Moore has shared his passion for fishing, the river, and the outdoors with visitors from all over the world.

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Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard

Yvon Chouinard has been wearing the same flannel shirt for 20 years. The 75-year-old conservationist, out-of-the-box thinker, athlete and craftsman is also anti-consumerism, always pushing Patagonia, the company he founded, to find solutions to the global environmental crisis.

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Joe Brooks - The Father of Modern Fly Fishing - How love changed fishing forever

Joe Brooks and Curt Gowdy, the first American Sportsman Show, casting into the wind

A video clip from the very first American Sportsman TV show, 1963 pilot program. It was filmed as a fishing competition between two Argentines, Tito Hosman and Erick Gornick versus two Americans, Joe Brooks and Curt Gowdy on Lago General Paz, Argentina. During a horrific wind storm the fisherman were unable to compete, so Joe gives a casting demonstration… into the wind.