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Experience Bristol Bay, Alaska Courtesy American Angler, Kulik Lodge, and Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska.

In cooperation with Kulik Lodge and the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska, American Angler magazine will send two lucky winners on a seven-day trip of a lifetime to the heart of the world’s most magnificent—and imperiled—trout and salmon fishery. This package includes round-trip air transportation between Anchorage and Kulik, lodging, three guided sportfishing fly-outs per person, meals, boat and guide service while at Kulik, fishing licenses, rods, waders, and complimentary cocktails. Learn more after the jump.
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Guinness launches its most ambitious ad yet. In a parallel with the way a pint of Guinness is created, the ad shows a group of men bringing “a world to life.”

Taking on the extreme challenge of creating this epic ad, Director Johnny Green recruited an elite team including Oscar winning set designer Grant Major and Oscar nominated Director of Photography Wally Pfisher.

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Great new print from Brainstorm Print and Desing. Sailor’s Delight is a hand made signed and limited print. Brainstorm prints on FSC certified & recycled paper with water based printing inks and organic and biodegradable cleanup chemicals.

•Sailor’s Delight 19″x25″ $30•

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This is the trailer for the movie “Redfish can’t jump” that Seth Vernon has made about the gill nets in North Carolina. www.redfishcantjump.com

Another good site on the fight to remove gill nets is The Coastal Fisheries Reform Group.

North Carolina has almost three million acres of coastal and joint waters and four thousand miles of coastline. It’s high time that North Carolina joins our other southern coastal states in the removal of the destructive gill nets from all NC Coastal waters. From here to Mexico the only states that still allow this archaic practice of gill netting in coastal waters are North Carolina and Mississippi. We have world class universities within two hour’s drive from our coastal waters, yet up until this point science has been stopped at our coastal water’s edge for political considerations.

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Check out the gear over at Skinny Water Culture. Here is what the owner Vince Stegura had to say about it:

We were tired of not having anything to wear that reflected our culture as a group of fisherpeople. There are many fishing apparel companies. There aren’t however, many differences between them. It seems that they mostly follow the same business model. Find a way to draw a fish, and do every species that same exact way… We saw the trend, and wanted something different.

We, and most of our friends, grew up in Florida, surfing, skateboarding, bmx riding, and fishing. The 1st three sports, all have giants in the apparel industry. I don’t really need to name them.

The one thing I noticed about all of them is that they don’t exactly put a picture of a skateboard, or wave, or ramp on every shirt. They take elements from their culture, or lifestyle, and infuse them into the fabric. Through colors, cuts, and not so exact designs. When someone wears one of their garments, they are a reflection of that culture, without being so obvious… That is what we are on a mission for doing with fishing.

Skinny Water Culture is still growing and will continue to use higher quality garments, and stay innovative as we develop new products, including moisture wicking hats, and visors (coming soon!), board shorts for fisher people, and fishing pants and utility products. There have already been many companies that have started in the last year that have tried in some way to duplicate, and there is no doubt that there will be more, but there will never be another Skinny Water Culture! Come back to the site often, as it changes all the time, and if you like something, buy it now, because something new will be replacing it soon! T-shirt shown is the Chase Hancock “Permit” T Shirt (Long Sleeve)

Use the code thisisfly and receive a discount of 10%

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Zac Collins of Montana shares a passionate embrace with a huge brown. You may recognize Zac from our write-up Twins, Flies, & Pizza. If you didn’t read it, make sure you take note of the shared pizza recipe.

It seems everywhere you look brands are offering the option to customize. We have seen it in the sneaker market with many labels (Vans, Nike, Converse), but this is the first encounter we have had with sunglasses. Oakley offers 25 styles that you can modify to your needs. With Sunglasses being one of the most crucial pieces of gear to fly fishing, this a great tool to explore.

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The 17 foot recycled styrofoam Hummer was created by American artist Andrew Junge.

Andrew created the biggest symbol of American excess out of one of the most non-recylced materials that fill our dump, STYROFOAM. Junge scavenged his styrofoam from dumps to create the piece that represents our excessive cultural consumption.

“I wish to examine and re-contextualize found objects and materials, to invest them with new life, and to sanctify – or at least acknowledge their presence in the world. My aim is to turn the lowest form of human productivity, trash, into the highest, art – a kind of modern alchemy.”

Andrew Junge

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Drew Rush started out as many photographers do, guiding clients into the outdoors. During his education at the University of Wyoming, he would spend his summers guiding fishing trips and living in the back of his Nissan pick up in Jackson. After he graduated, he needed something to keep himself occupied during the winter (and pay the rent!) so he began to guide snowmobile trips in the mountains surrounding Jackson.

Taking pictures and writing the occasional story seemed to be a natural progression in the life of someone who’s goal in life is to spend as much time as possible outside. With no formal training in photography, he began to read everything he could to try and figure out how to get his equipment to work. Saving tips, he would update his equipment and add to it whenever he could. He gave himself five years to make it work or he would try something else. That was four years ago.

Now, he has been published in multiple magazines as well as national advertising campaigns for corporate clients. Getting one step closer to fulfilling his childhood dream of being an assignment shooter for National Geographic, he was asked to join the National Geographic Image Sales in June. If you have any questions about photography, or fishing don’t hesitate to drop him a line….he’d be happy to help.
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