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SO… WHAT HAPPENED TO CLYDE?

’m a subscriber, and a huge fan of and Mr. Clyde. I spent my life in Florida but spend fall in Vermont chasing smallies—so I don’t know the first thing about hatches and dry flies! My son got into fishing very early, and he devours your magazine the second I finish it. I love the writers and photographers who contribute to —there is a regular dose of something priceless within your pages.

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