Before television, people got their news at the movie theater. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course. . .
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The Director of the Bermuda Fishing Information Bureau, Pete Perinchief, designed The Horror pattern in the 1950s after a frustrating trip to the Florida Keys with Joe and Mary. . .
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Editor’s note: The American Museum of Fly Fishing is located right next to the Orvis Flagship store in Manchester, Vermont. The folks from the museum will be sharing many of the cool items from their collection in an ongoing series called “Museum Pieces.” You can take a little virtual walk through part of the museum at the bottom of this post.
Many older trout reels are surprisingly small, built to hold thin diameter silk lines. Trout lines were often shorter than they are today because shooting the line for distance was not a common. . .
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I recently ran across this marvelous piece of archival film from the International Game Fish Association, which shows casting champion Bill True and guide Jim Brewer chasing tarpon in. . .
Read MoreThe American Museum of Fly Fishing is located right next to the Orvis Flagship store in Manchester, Vermont. It’s a great place to visit, but it’s certainly not that convenient for folks. . .
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Here’s a very cool piece of fly-fishing history found on Youtube: a 1960s production of “Ted Williams and Salmo Salar.” In this half-hour production distributed by Sears Roebuck & Co. . . .
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If the eastern brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, could read and understand but a part of the praises that have been sung of him in prose and verse through all the years, what a pampered princeling and nuisance he would become! But to his credit, he has gone on being the. . .
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The American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) has launched a web version of its groundbreaking exhibition, A Graceful Rise: Women in Fly Fishing Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. This. . .
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Our friends at the American Museum of Fly Fishing—in nearby Manchester, Vermont—has launched an Indiegogo campaign to put its new saltwater fly fishing exhibit online, which would make it available to anglers around the world: . . .
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Here’s a cool teaser for an upcoming documentary about the great Joe Brooks, featuring parts of his story that have never been told. Brooks’s protégé, Lefty Kreh, plays an integral role in what. . .
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