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Four Tactics for Fighting Trout Around Structure

Wrapping, snapping, rubbing, busting. Fighting fish around structure is difficult.  You have to do all the other things correct, PLUS apply the tactics that will keep your fish from breaking off.  The logs and branches, boulders and rocks add a whole new dimension to landing fish, and a big trout that’s been around the block knows these obstacles and will use them to frustrate your endeavors to net them.  My new home waters have forced some serious reflection on how to minimize the heartache of a lost fish (especially those nice ones) when that line finds something besides water to slice against.  I’ve landed on four techniques that help me when fighting trout around structure.  Fight fish fast.  Fight fish close.  Move your body.  Move your rod.  We’ll cover each…
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On March 20, 2023 • By
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Podcast

Streamer Fishing on the North Platte River and the Importance of Community with Jennings Hester

Fly fishing brings with it the idea of solitude.  Alone with your thoughts on the river.  Just you and the fish.  Many people fall in love with fly fishing because of that time away from everything else in their lives that clutters their brain.  I admit, I seek that same state of mind in fly fishing. That focus and clarity that comes from wading through cold, flowing water and getting lost in the problem solving.  That focus we find in fly fishing, when everything else disappears is special, but even in our solitude, we are part of a community of others who seek the same thing.  And that makes the fly fishing community unique... and valuable.
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On March 16, 2023 • By
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Announcements

The WadeOutThere Hat

I’m proud to announce that WadeOutThere hats are now available.  This hat has been an ongoing project for me since I built the WadeOutThere website and published my first blog post almost four years ago.  If you want to know how the WadeOutThere Hat came to be, or why it's been so long in the making, you'll have to follow me back to Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, 2018.  Maybe you're thinking, it’s just a hat Jason.  Fair enough.  I'm grateful you're here either way.  But if you’re interested in what makes this hat so special for me, here’s the story… 
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On March 13, 2023 • By
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Photo from Cade Moore
Podcast

Adapting on the Provo River and Carp Tactics in Utah with Cade Moore

Most fly fishers will tell you that presentation is more important in catching fish than fly selection.  I tend to agree with this concept, but Cade makes a good point that brings the concepts of presentation and fly selection closer together than we may sometimes consider.  Fly selection is more than just the kind of bug you are presenting the fish.  Flies can change how we present the fly as well.  
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On March 9, 2023 • By
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cutthroat trout
Lessons Learned (Stories)

Fish All the Way to the Takeout

There comes a time when it feels like you've tried everything.  We had fished fast and slow water. Skinny runs and deep pools.  Off the banks and in the middle.  Dries and wet flies, both big and small.  Nymphs,  emergers, dry droppers, hopper droppers, two flies, one fly, weighted flies, with and without split shot.  Swinging, stripping, tightlining, dead drifting.  Up and down, left to right, and all over that water, you name it, we’d fished it! 
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On March 6, 2023 • By
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Puerto Rico Saltwater Fly Fishing
Photo from Alejandro Feliciano
Podcast

Sight Fishing for Tarpon in Puerto Rico with Alejandro Feliciano

Keep on moving.  Because the good things out there don’t always come to us.  Alejandro Feliciano knows this from his time walking the beaches of Puerto Rico, where the fish are always there, you just have to go find them.  Whether we’re searching for a fish to tighten our line or a new river to explore, it seems nature provides, so long as we go searching.
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On February 23, 2023 • By
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