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Sage tops IFTD 2017 with its second straight 'Best of Show' award

The new SALT HD fly rod helps Sage repeat at IFTD

by Chad Shmukler - Monday, Jul 17th, 2017

The new Sage SALT HD fly rod (photo: Chad Shmukler).

The annual IFTD (International Fly Tackle Dealers) show came to a close last Friday in Orlando, Florida. Each year, the culmination of the show's exhibits is the the 'Party at the Pond' where the winners for 'Best of Show' in 30 different categories are announced. This year, Sage was awarded with the show's highest honor for the second year in a row, with its new SALT HD fly rod.

A workshop on seeing

Looking through the eyes of artist Jim Morgan

by Tom Davis - Thursday, Jul 13th, 2017

Courtesy: Jim Morgan

When Jim Morgan goes afield with something definite in mind, searching a particular subject in a particular setting that will “make” a painting, he’s almost always brought to ruin. Far better, he’s learned, simply to go and take what comes, staying open to possibilities, trusting in serendipity as an article of faith. If you put yourself in the right places in the right frame of mind—keeping alert, taking pains to notice even the smallest, seemingly most insignificant details of the environment—over time you’ll be rewarded.

With friends like Ryan Zinke, who needs enemies?

It's time for sportsmen to get real about our Secretary of Interior

by Ted Williams - Monday, Jul 10th, 2017

Photo: Lance Cheung

In Kipling’s The Jungle Book, bandar-log (monkey people) are hypnotized by the gyrations of Kaa, the python. They then march zombie-like into his gaping jaws.

That scene comes to mind whenever I hear sportsmen gush about anti-environmental bureaucrats and politicians simply because they pretend to hunt and fish, have kids who hunt and fish or, as with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, do hunt and fish.

Of cutthroat, elk and pine

National monuments protect more than artifacts and historical sites.

by Johnny Carrol Sain - Sunday, Jul 9th, 2017

Photo: Johnny Carrol Sain

Following guide and owner of Taos Fly Shop Nick Streit along the banks of the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico isn’t easy. There are so many potential ankle-twisting scenarios—rocks, holes, steep and slippery mud banks—and so many distractions. For a curious nose like mine, it was smells that were distracting. The spice of sage mixed with smooth vanilla of ponderosa pine, and then a medley of something else I couldn’t identify. The fragrant richness was unexpected in such austere country.

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