Dispatches from a Trout Wrangler

Dispatches from a Trout Wrangler

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February 2025

Reddit AMA with Phil Monahan
If you read about fly-fishing then you know of Phil Monahan. He’s a former guide, a freelance writer and was in the editor’s chair at American Angler…
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Tom Sadler
Four reasons why fly-fishing is good stress relief
“Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger.” – Herbert Hoover
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AMFF's Fishing the Collection
Pete Kutzer is an exceptional caster, teacher and all around good guy.
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Waterside Chat with Kris Millgate
You will entertained and learn some cool stuff
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January 2025

First trip of the year
Didn’t think I would make it.
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Teaching notes - Flies
“Ninety percent of what trout eat is brown and fuzzy and about five-eighths of an inch long,”
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The view from Capitol Hill
Regular readers know that there is a section in Dispatches called Riding the Thunder dealing with conservation and outdoor recreation politics and…
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I know just as much as I need to know
And you know more than you think
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Goodbye 2024
Time to say goodbye to the bad things of 2024 and relegate them to the fire pit…
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Tom Sadler

December 2024

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