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	Let Us Now Praise Cool Magazines "National fly-fishing magazines don’t even aim to be same. They compete for ad dollars, overlap in areas, but carve their own characters, create distinctive appeals." By Seth Norman

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	Out for Trout You can stick me in a freezing river with no shot at catching anything before you put me on the couch to watch the tube. By Austin McPherson
	Two-River Days We were fishing hard and well and throwing our sink-tips deep. My fly was ticking the bottom in several runs.
	Striking Steel I didn’t know when, but I knew it would all come together eventually. And it did all come together on a mild March morning ... Austin McPherson

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Robert Traver, known on his driver's license as John D. Voelker, is one of fly-fishing's literary lions. The John D. Voelker Foundation puts it this way: "Author of 11 books (and a 12th posthumous book, Traver on Fishing) and numerous stories, including Anatomy of a Murder, a Michigan Supreme Court Justice...and self‑proclaimed "U.P. Cribbage Champ," John Voelker made many contributions that live on today." We're proud to partner with the foundation on the annual Traver Award. Click here to find out the details.

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	"One of My Favorites" One Sporting Life painting stands out in the mind of John Gierach.

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	John Gierach's Fool’s Paradise Reading/Signing Tour What could be better at the start of a new fishing season than another dose of John Gierach? John Gierach

 

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