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The Sun Also Rises In The Pyrenees
It’s six a.m. on a July day in the Spanish part of the Pyrenees and I just left a beautiful inn with my backpack and fly rod to start a fishing day with my friend, Iván Tarin. There is no one on the streets. The temperature is cool but pleasant. We w
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Urban Reveal
A YOUNG ANGLER lands a nice-ish trout and wants to share the photo, not only because of the fish, but because of the location: at the base of a waterfall, beneath a big bridge and a gondola, in downtown Spokane, Washington. He posts the photo and get
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Hiram Lewis Leonard
SOME YEARS AGO I developed an absurd craving for a bamboo rod. I couldn’t afford one, so I’d visit a tackle shop just to wave one around until someone asked me to leave—like the car buff who stops at a dealer to sit in an Alfa Romeo he’ll never own.

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