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Marion hunting guide wins national outdoors challenge (Asheville Citizen-Times)

Great to see Field & Stream reader mixing it with professionals. It just show the quality of the readers and therefore the quality of this great publication. Check it out!

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A fly fishing and hunting guide in Marion onSaturday won a contest designed to determine the nation's bestall-around outdoorsman.

Paul Garrett Thompson, 31, took top honors at the 2006 Field & Stream Total Outdoorsman Challenge.

Thethird annual event, held in Nashville, pitted 16 accomplishedoutdoorsmen against each other, including Thompson, professional bassfisherman Sean Hoernke and Olympic shooting gold medalist Matt Emmons.

Competitorswere tested in fly casting, bait casting, air rifle, shotgun,endurance, archery and ATV handling, according to Field & Stream..............................

Marion hunting guide wins national outdoors challenge (Asheville Citizen-Times)

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A Beginner's Guide to Carp Fishing With a Fly Rod

A Beginner's Guide to Carp Fishing With a Fly Rod

This is great beginners guide to fishing. Good detailed advice for anyone really from finding to catching to eating.

Casting a fly for carp is like dragging a piece of fried chicken through the local seniors’ center. If it looks good and moves slowly enough, something will eventually try to gum it to death.

Oddly enough, flyfishing for the toothless common carp is hot, a long-simmering trend that’s grown dramatically over the past three years. Carp are wary and smart and frequently hit 20 to 30 pounds. They sometimes feed in clear, shallow water, where they can be seduced with flies similar to those used for trout. There are now carp-on-the-fly fans from Washington state east to New York and Massachusetts, as well as in Europe. Books and videos on the subject are starting to appear. The staid International Game Fish Association now keeps fly-rod carp records. This is the next big deal.

A Beginner's Guide to Carp Fishing With a Fly Rod

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Hand made fishing rods

Special Fishing Rods (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

A couple of guys from Kanawha Valley love what they do and are pretty good at a craft that goes back a long way. Sixty hours to make one rod....thats dedication and love for what they do.

Interesting article on making fishing rods from Jim Treacy

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Starting out - fly fishing

Setting up for fly fishing - Malaysia Star

A nice little article on the basics of fly fishing, I like it when others discover the rewards of fly fishing. Thanks to Anthony Geiffreys for this article.

Malaysia Star

Setting up for fly fishing Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Sep 8, 2006 SO we have finally invested good money on fly fishing equipment. ... This then is the art of fly fishing, a technique of using an artificial fly to catch a fish. ...

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