Abe's Motel and Fly Shop

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Fly Fishing News - MidCurrent | 08/20/08 6:26

Abe and Patsy Chavez opened the doors to their $5-a-day fishing shop on August 18, 1958, only to see the construction of the Navajo Dam push them into the motel business. Fifty years later, they are selling flies and float trips to anglers on the San Juan -- now a tailwater with a world-wide reputation. Writer Cornelia De...

  The Olympics' Good Old Days

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Fly Fishing News - MidCurrent | 08/20/08 6:11

The impressive British performance in Beijing has Telegraph writer John Bingham looking back at the good old days of the 1908 Olympics, when the top swimmers had to share the pool with fly casters. Apparently it was a time when "running deer shooting" was considered PC and champagne was considered a legitimate electrolyte...

  Teasing GTs to catch them on a fly is hard work...and sometimes dangerous too

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MOLDY CHUM | 08/20/08 4:32

The latest dispatch from SWOFFA. LINK

  Matt Boutet Photogrphy

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MOLDY CHUM | 08/20/08 2:54

Some nice work from Saco Maine based Matt Boutet. LINK

  Welcome to Jeremiah Quinn

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MOLDY CHUM | 08/20/08 2:20

Writer, director, washed up boxer and incompetent, but passionate fly fisherman. LINK

  Angler's ashes turned into fish food

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MOLDY CHUM | 08/20/08 2:08

After his death last month he was cremated in a wicker fishing basket coffin, and his ashes were mingled with 30lb of fish food. Mr Hodge's widow Caroline and daughter Sally were the first to catapult balls of the bait...

  Panther Martin meets Sclera

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MOLDY CHUM | 08/19/08 12:13

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  Dr. Slick Announces New Tools for 2009

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Fly Fishing News - MidCurrent | 08/19/08 6:03

Among the new fly fishing items that Dr. Slick is bringing to market in 2009 are a $12 combination nail knot/nipper tool, a Wizard Split Shot Clamp for removing split shot, ergonomic twisted-loop clamps that allow "about 50% more pressure than using the thumb and forefinger alone as with a traditional hemostat," and new...

  New Ways to Sell Outdoors Gear

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Fly Fishing News - MidCurrent | 08/19/08 5:35

If you haven't noticed the explosion of marketing videos on YouTube in recent months, you've missed a modern cultural phenomenon. But of course some businesses are using the platform better than others -- many of them remixing and redubbing footage to put a humorous twist on classic footage. Take fly fishing and outdoors...

  Father and Son Team Cause 36,000-Gallon Oil Spill in Wild Trout Stream

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Fly Fishing News - MidCurrent | 08/19/08 5:17

Officials are still guessing a the motivation, but some time over the weekend father and son employees of Snyder Brothers Inc. opened the valves on seven crude oil storage tanks and spilled a massive amount of oil into Chappel Fork in Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. "The Forest Service said the spill polluted...