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Catch Magazine

September 1st, 2010 No Comments

Issue #13 is now live !
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New Fly Fishing Lodge in Argentina

August 31st, 2010 No Comments

I received a phone call yesterday from Arnaud de Malefette who is the general manager of Mawidako Lodge in Northern Argentina. Mawidako means “water from the Cordillera Mountains” in mapuche which is the traditional Indian language in the Andes and Mawidako is a unique eco-friendly fly fishing lodge in the Mendoza Province of Northern [...]

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Fly Fishing Article in the National Post

August 30th, 2010 No Comments

I am pleased to see more frequent references to fly fishing in both advertising and mainstream media and the latest story to appear was an article in Saturday’s National Post entitled “Just You and the Trout” by Shelley Bindon. www.nationalpost.com/Just+trout/3453918/story.html

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Just a Thought…

August 28th, 2010 No Comments

I received an email from a friend the other day explaining that if we had purchased $2,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth about $98.00. If we had purchased stock in Enron, we would have had $33.00 left of the original $2,000.00.
With WorldCom, we would have had less than [...]

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Atlantic Salmon Runs are Breaking Records!

August 27th, 2010 No Comments

This season’s Atlantic salmon runs to many rivers throughout Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces are breaking recent records according to counting facility reports by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). For further information please see http://asf.ca/news.php?id=561

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Great News for BC Fish Stocks !

August 26th, 2010 No Comments

“On Tuesday, the Pacific Salmon Commission dramatically revised its forecast for the Fraser River sockeye return this year. That would make this year’s run the strongest on the river since 1913. The bounty is especially welcome after a disastrous 2009 season when a little more than one million salmon made their way back to [...]

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…Do You Have That in a Size 14 ?

August 12th, 2010 No Comments

We received some nice feedback from a client this week that we appreciated on a number of fronts. First, he was kind enough to take the time to send us an email to explain how his shopping experience went and offered some excellent advice on what we might do to get better. Secondly, [...]

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The New Fly Fisher

August 5th, 2010 No Comments

There are a lot of fishing shows on television and many of them are about as interesting as watching my dog watch a cat… You know how it goes. You keep watching ‘nothing’ thinking something interesting is going to happen – if only for a few moments – but almost always end up [...]

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Catch & Release: Everyone is Doing It !

August 2nd, 2010 No Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqGRNtHDQg

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Volunteers Needed !

July 31st, 2010 No Comments

Help monitor the health of the river by volunteering at an electrofishing station near you. This monitoring technique is used to inventory fish species and populations and volunteers are typically required to help carry out this valuable work.
The Credit Valley Conservation Authority is having an electrofishing Volunteer Day on Thursday, Aug 5th beginning [...]

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