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- He’ll get bigger (and he’ll be smarter).
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- native brookie
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- The stolen fishing trip
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- nice brown in the driftless area
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- Rainbow
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- Hatch reels get it done!
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- Rainbow
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- Beautiful rainbow
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- A happy fisherman
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- The artsy shot
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- Trout bring out the smiles
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- Love my hatch reel
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- Beautiful backdrop for catching ‘bows.
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- Clint’s nice rainbow!
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- Clint getting it done again!
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- Jeff prospecting for rainbows.
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- Duke’s Creek
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- Clint is on fire!
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- Just another day at the office for Clint.
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- Clint’s pretty rainbow.
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- Jeff stalking some rainbows.
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- Clint’s all over these ‘bows.
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- Fall colors
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- Adam caught this extremely big hog of a Brookie in the Poconos!
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- Here I am with guide, Chris Willen.
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- 16 inch smallmouth bass
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- Nice fish to round out the day.
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- John 2.0 broke his long skunk with this beauty.
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- Nice ‘bow on the Winooski in Vermont
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- Taking advantage of good weather and fun fish.
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- The Winooski River in Vermont is called the Waterbury Zoo for a reason!
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- Sometimes walking a little ways pays off.
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- The Rush has some beautiful cliffs too.
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- John fishes quietly in the background.
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- Nice little guy to end the day.
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- Not to be outdone, I caught this 12 inch brown on opening day 2015 on the Rush River.
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- A nice brown on opening day 2015 for John on the Rush River
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- John is on fire catching big steelies in 2015
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- John couldn’t be happier with this skunk breaking Brook Trout
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- Another brookie
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- Nice brookie – such wonderful colors
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- John fishing opening day on the Kinni
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- Letting this Brown go shortly
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- Nice steelhead
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- Derek’s new Access Rod and Reel for Steelheading from Orvis
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- Mike scoping out the river
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- Brule River Blizzard 2013
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- Lake Superior Sunrise
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- Derek catching a breather
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- Adam catching a breather
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- Da Brodas!
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- Quite possibly the coolest thing ever. We found a Coleman Special on a tree that someone had dropped. This must have been a fly I gave out to someone on the river at some point. This also perpetuates the mythos of the Coleman Special and shrubberies!
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- The water wasn’t that cold
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- The great Blizzard of 2013
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- A little snow never kept steelheaders away . . .
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- Nice steelhead caught in October during the fall run on the Brule.
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- Brand new Orvis Superfine 1-weight Rod with a CFO reel courtesy of my brother. What a wonderful birthday gift!
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- So I tried out the rod balancing photo . . . not my best moment.
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- Brown Trout can have beautiful colors.
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- Me with a nice brown on the Rush.
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- Fog rolling across the Rush River.
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- This brown hammered that czech mate fly.
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- Nice brown on the lower Kinni
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- Small Brook Trout
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- Brookie caught on a Tenkara rod.
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- A kiss goodbye?
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- The Kinni in early Fall.
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- The canyons of the lower Kinni.
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- The Kinni has beautiful limestone rocks.
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- Rush River – you can’t see it, but there’s hundreds of fish in this hole refusing our flies.
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- Derek and John’s first attempts at . . . well, I think they were trying to do a Coleman Special. Points for the effort though.
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- The President’s River (Bois Brule River, Wisconsin)
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- Trying my best to get a good pose for this shot.
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- Another lower Kinni Brown
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- A huge Sucker on the Kinni
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- Nice brown on the Kinni
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- A baby steelhead breaks the skunk . . .
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- Time for a little hydration . . .
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- Small Skip Jack on the Brule
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- John doing his impersonation of “A River Runs Through It”
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- Brown on the Kinni
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- Rainbow on the Brule
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- Brown Trout
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- My brother ponders the meaning of Fly Fishing.
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- Another view of that nice Skip Jack.
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- Fishing for steelhead.
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- John got a nice Skip Jack here.
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- A baby steelhead on the Brule River.
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- Derek’s first fish on a fly. And his first steelhead . . .can he be more lucky?
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- Brian “Lucky” Porter, quite possibly the greatest guide there is. He introduced us to the mystery of Steelhead fishing.
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- John vetoing my advise . . .
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- Derek taking some advise from me on fly selection on the Knife River in Minnesota during Steelhead season.
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- John “Ironman” Davies
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- Derek “Tinman” Davies
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- First time on the lower Kinni in the spring.
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- The first rod that my father ever bought for me along with the reel. After 20 years, it’s still dependable. Orvis makes such quality gear.
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- Our first Adventure to the Kinnikinick River in Wisconsin. There’s always time for shenanigans!
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- Opening day on the Rush River in Wisconsin 2015. A little snow never keeps the avid angler in bed . . .
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- Nice 25 inch steelhead caught by prize pupil John. It’s always nice to see the student surpass the master.
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- It took some time, but I finally landed a nice steelhead. The hat may become my new lucky hat . . .
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- Tied up some really buggy Hare’s Ears with Loon’s UV Flow finish and tungsten gold colored beads.
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- 2015 is turning out to be John’s year for Steelheading. He had a long Brule River skunk going, so he was over due!
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- The Coleman Special (well . . .a blinged out version of the original pattern from my father). The only thing this fly catches more than shrubberies is rainbow trout.
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