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Kids and Spey Casting: The first lesson.
Thought all of you might like to see this. I took the girls to the Clark Fork River yesterday to let them dig around for crayfish and minnows and to get my gear set up for the Deschutes River...
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Fly Rod & Reel Fall Issue
Giving all of you a sneak peek at Fly Rod & Reel’s fall cover. The magazine should be off the press and hitting newsstands any day. It’s a solid issue so make sure you check it out. You’ll find a...
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Thomas Wins Society of Animal Artists Award
Super excited to announce that my father, Fred Thomas, just won the Leonard J. Meiselman Memorial Award for Realistic Painting for a piece that was accepted in the 2012 Society of Animal Artists show....
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Steelhead Exhibit at the Burke Museum, Seattle
I wish I’d been made aware of this exhibit before they set it up so I could have had my Father, Fred, contribute his work, and so I could have contributed an image or two of mine. The Burke is a...
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More Groups Join Montana Stream Access Fight
Changes to stream access laws are the greatest threat to anglers in Montana who have had the right to access rivers and streams from bridges. However, landowners are making multiple pushes to get that...
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Same Fish on Oregon’s Deschutes River
Hey, I’m not saying this is the same fish, but Peter Crow, marketing director for Smith and Suncloud glasses, and I had some fun yesterday as I was drumming up support for Angler’s Tonic in 2013. I...
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Kara Armano’s Bonefish School at Andros South
I’ve had the opportunity to fish with Kara Armano a couple times and she’s the real deal—no tying this gal’s flies on for her. If you’re interested in bonefish and having a great time, with lots of...
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Scientific Anglers Tippet Material and New Tippet Spools
Scientific Anglers, which has been a great supporter of my work over the years, offered some new tippet spools this past spring, and they worked well for me this summer and fall. The new spools offer a...
View ArticleBangor Publisher Gets Lee Wulff Award
St. Andrews… The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) has selected Richard (Rick) J. Warren of Bangor ME as the 2012 recipient of the Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award. Senator Michael Meighen,...
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Fly Fishing Presentation at International Sportsman’s Exhibition, Denver
Wanted all of you to know that I’ll be headed to Denver shortly to speak at the International Sportsman’s Exhibition. This is a show that I attended when I was young. It was something that my mother,...
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Ennis Montana Angler’s Dream Home—price reduced
Wanted to let all of you know that I dropped the price on my house in Ennis, from $159,000 to $145,000. I still think this would be one awesome buy for a few people who wanted to share a house in the...
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Author Scott Sadil Heads Up the Columbia River to Save Fish
Here’s an initial report on the progress of angling author Scott Sadil, who’s navigating Washington’s and Oregon’s Columbia River and Washington’s and Idaho’s Snake River in hopes of drawing attention...
View ArticleScott Sadil Finishes Columbia/Snake River Voyage
Lewiston, ID July 30, 2013 Author Scott Sadil arrived Sunday, July 28, at Hell’s Gate State Park, five miles upstream from Lewiston, Idaho, completing a 471-mile voyage up the Columbia and Snake...
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Best Products From the IFTD Show
A little belated here, but I thought all of you would want to know who won awards at the ICAST/IFTD show held in Las Vegas in early July. IFTD New Product Showcase Winners: Best of Show - Radian fly...
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I don’t usually post job openings but being in Denver and working for this forward-thinking shop would be a good gig for a lot of people. Trouts is one of the best shops in the country and they have...
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OWAA Hires Schoonen to Communications Post
A little local love to throw out here. OWAA is a great organization and a solid place for people getting into outdoors writing to meet brethren and gain valuable contacts. Whether you live in Missoula...
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YOU PICK: Fly Rod & Reel Fall Cover
We pick covers at Fly Rod & Reel democratically, but I wanted to toss out a few potential covers to the Angler’s Tonic brethren. I’m looking for you to pick your favorite. Just comment to let me...
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Sunken RO Driftboat in The Yellowstone River
Our friends over in Bozeman with RO Driftboats could use your help. They dumped a boat in the Yellowstone this weekend and haven’t found it. If you were/are floating there, chucking hoppers and...
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TU On Threats of Climate Change on America’s freshwater fisheries resources
Trout Unlimited is one of my favorite conservation organizations and they have been so for a long time. So I wanted to share a new announcement of there’s with Tonic faithful. gt WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trout...
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Igloo’s Yukon 70 Cold Locker: The Weekend Test
Ok, got to spend some serious camping/fishing time with Igloo’s new Yukon 70 Cold Locker, which showed up on my doorstep last week and travelled with me to Idaho’s Iron Lake, at 8,000 feet, this past...
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