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Here is a short movie to welcome you all into 2007 and a glimpse at some fishing in the San Franciso Delta system. We have fished here with Doug Lovell whom owns FISH FIRST for last couple of years and just last month Kate gave us a lesson in how to catch Striped Bass. Enjoy the movie it is for personal use only.
By the way you can see a few more short videos here.
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Click the photo to be taken to the movie. You will need Quicktime to view.
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Jan 2, 2007, 22:59
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A first hand account of the effects of the drought that has been affecting the American West for the past several years, witnessed by the author firsthand in early 2005. Low precipitation equals more irrigation pumping, and many small isolated trout streams are unknown victims in the battle for water, lacking the protections provided to the larger salmon and steelhead-bearing streams.
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Oct 14, 2005, 23:12
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The Barramundi saw the fly as it hit the water and swam out from underneath the log to investigate. "Twitch the fly" I instructed Dusty as he made the first strips of the flyline. The fish looking up cross-eyed as he nosed the FPF suddenly decided it was time to eat this "thing". "Stick it mate ,your on" I said while putting the electric motor in reverse, drawing Mr Barra from his home amongst the sticks. Dusty a excavator operator from Oregon USA and a mighty fine flyline caster commented "you really need to work the fly". Certainly now he had understood the importance of enticing the fish to strike, inhale and eat. Both Dusty and his mate Kennedy another Oregon bloke whom is a gymnastic instructor and keen flyfisherman both started to unlock the rivers secrets using the Koolatong Keys PPPD, Preciseness Presentation, Persistence and Deceit.
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Nov 5, 2003, 21:09
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On a recent fly fishing trip to the Baja of California I observed an event meaningless to some in the big scheme of the world, yet spoke volumes to me. On a glorious morning my husband and I were bobbing around on the indigo Sea of Cortez in a small, white open fishing boat with our Mexican captain Jose. The warm salt tinged air stirred the Doritos bag into a little dance in the bottom of the boat. Great whacking splashes of leaping manta rays (always behind your back), distant breaking waves and the cries of sea birds were the only other sounds in the world next to the methodical singing of the fly line back and forth, back and forth.
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Aug 31, 2003, 16:47
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Dean Butler has submited some photos to the gallery and I just had to share this one. Dean as many know has been on flyfishing's leading edge cutting paths through to new frontiers and this photo of a Papua New Guinea Black Bass has inspired a "Classic" file in the egallery. Thats a exclusive club Black Bass on fly.. Lefty Kreh, Rod Harrison and Dean are the ones I know of..who else?
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Jul 25, 2003, 16:35
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