If you grew up in the Northwest in the 1970s this commercial is probably part of your childhood experience. And if you grew up in Seattle, you know that town kind of went to hell when the old neon red Rainier sign, located right next to I-5, was replaced with the glowing green Tully’s Coffee sign. Some things in life aren’t right, but Rainier nailed it when they produced this classic beer commercial. Grab some buds this weekend? No way, fella’. Grab some tallboy Rainier cans and enjoy.
Alaska Peninsula Wolves Chowing Down on Salmon
Found this interesting piece in the Anchorage Daily News and it resonated with me. I fished the Alaska Peninsula last summer and I didn’t see any wolves, but I saw 34 grizzlies. The Peninsula is wild, wild, wild country and I kind of felt like bait while wandering around with a seven-weight spey rod. That’s Continue reading
Connect: What do you know. A video with a message.
Are you getting what you need with your ad dollars in video? In Connect you do.
There are a lot of dollars being sprinkled around fly fishing today, mostly to support video projects that may or may not give a company some air time at one or more of the film tours that roll across the country each year. Their presence on the tour, of course, depends on whether they are even good enough to make the cut. And many of them aren’t.
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ShutterBugs: Tonic Posters
Thought you might find this trio of posters entertaining to see. Would love to know if you like any of these or if you think they’re dirt. I put them together for AT’s sponsorship of the media lounge at the International Fly Tackle Dealer Show in New Orleans in August. Maybe I’ll do something different for our 2012 sponsorships. Or not. Really relying on you guys here. I’m kind of partial to the carp image, but that chrome one with the sea lice is pretty killer Continue reading
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Bull Trout on the Skagit
You only need a minute and forty-six seconds to take a lungful of air and refresh your late Monday attitude. This short is from Travis Lowe, our Canadian brother who owns Cinema Digital Production. I’ve fished the Skagit, where these images were taken, in the Washington state portion of the river. And I’ve taken some really nice dollies/bull trout. This film is shot in the Canadian portion of the Skagit, upstream from Ross Dam, an easy one-day in and out for Vancouver area anglers. Hey, there are steelhead about and that’s probably what you want to focus on this time of year, but these bull trout are pretty sick, too, native fish that eat well. And you won’t find as many people pursuing them so you can pretty much have the water to yourself. Thanks to Lowe for his permission to run this clip. He keeps sending ‘em and we’ll keep posting them. Let him know what you think.
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Memories from Haida Gwaii
Thought I’d throw a little Monday morning photographic love your way and share some images from paradise. See, it’s February now, and in the Pacific Northwest that means the best steelhead of the year are about to arrive—native winter slabs that range between eight and 30 pounds. I had a chance to visit the Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands, a few years ago and this is what I came up Continue reading
Tonic, Redington & Sage Geocache: Find it first
Want a new XL Redington shirt, plus a cool gray Redington hat, along with a couple Sage stickers and an Angler’s Tonic sticker? Here’s what you do. You get yourself a GPS if you don’t already own one, or you use your smart phone’s GPS device, and you put the chips and guac down and you head to the outskirts of Missoula Continue reading
Hatch Joins Team Tonic
Wanted all of you to know that Hatch Outdoors just came onboard to support Angler’s Tonic for another full year. If you’re not familiar with Hatch products you better click on the new ad (——>) and take a perusal. I’ll be getting a pair of their Tempest pliers to use and review. Also put in an order for the 3 Plus Finatic so that my daughter, Tate, and I can put it to the test this spring and summer. Having fished Hatch reels for, what, six or seven years now, I Continue reading
Drink of The Week: Dirty Martini
The exact origin of the Dirty Martini is unknown, but like all martinis it quickly grew in popularity after Ian Flemming published the James Bond book, Casino Royal, in 1953.
I was first introduced to the drink in Sun Valley, Idaho, back in 1996, I believe, when a girlfriend, Tyra Karlson, ordered up a couple of those in the Casino, an SV institution where locals hung out and searched for trouble.
The thing tasted so good I had another, but Continue reading
ShutterBugs: Travis DuBois
Often during July in Alaska, where I grew up, my family would slide our jetboat into the clear waters of my home river somewhere between eight and 10 p.m. Even at that time the summer sun lit up the sky so my dad would teach me to pilot the boat on our way to a favorite grayling spot. We Continue reading
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