The Teaching Issue
Contents Include:

Replace Yourself
Am I Too Old to Teach Fly Casting?
My Favorite Professors
Wagner’s To 10 Teaching Tips
They Said It

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ST. PAUL, Minn. 3/3/09 – For immediate release – Taking on added responsibilities for the 3M Sports and Leisure Products Scientific Anglers brand, Jeff Wieringa has been named sales and marketing manager, while Peter Frederixon is the new sales supervisor, announces Carlos Olivera, 3M Sports and Leisure business manager.
Following his stint as business development manager [...]

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TACKLE Trade World Fair has been cancelled for 2009. Managing director of organisers DHP, Sean O’Driscoll explains the reasons behind the decision. Click here for a link to the explination.

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Another field-tested recommendation: Smith Optics recently introduced the Riverside, a sunglass model that melds a classic look with updated feel, and features the company’s Techlite and Tapered Lens Tech (TLT) glass lens technology. Techlite is highly durable and scratch resistant, as well as exceptionally light. Riverside comes in various ploarized lens tints [...]

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A group of flyfishing experts – “Living Legends of the Sport” – are now hosting week-long excursions to Turneffe Flats in search of permit, bonefish and tarpon. Turneffe Flats guests for these weeks through May 30 will qualify for a $500 rebate to assist with airfare.  According to Craig Hayes, the resort’s owner, “Fuel prices [...]

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One of the best known ghillies in Scotland and renowned spey casting champion has joined the Hardy & Greys Ltd. product development team as a consultant and is endorsing Hardy Spey lines in America. Ian Gordon, winner of the Jimmy Green Spey-O-Rama in San Francisco in 2004 and highly regarded in the US Spey Casting [...]

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StoneFly Vineyards (stoneflyvineyards.com) is a Napa Valley winery dedicated to pairing the rich traditions of flyfishing and fine wine making. In addition to serving an outstanding collection of fine wines, a key element of StoneFly’s mission is to be a partner to small businesses and organizations in the flyfishing market.
As such, StoneFly Vineyards has launched [...]

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Big waves have hit one of flyfishing film’s largest purveyors of content and distribution, as it would appear that AEG Media, creator of the “Trout Bum Diaries” film series and the Fly Fishing Film tour, is no more. But the show goes on…
“Two partners and I bought the Flyfishing Film Tour from owners Terry Wolvert [...]

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Greg Thomas (an Angling Trade contributing editor) has joined Fly Rod & Reel as managing editor, as of that magazine’s March 2009 issue. He’ll be working from his home office in Ennis, Montana, and handling article proposals, editorial scheduling, editing, as well as writing and shooting photos for the magazine.     Writers/photographers can contact Greg [...]

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Far Bank Enterprises, Inc., parent company of Sage Manufacturing, Redington and RIO Products Intl., Inc., announced the hiring of David Visnack as director of marketing and merchandising. In this newly-created role, Visnack will help Far Bank strengthen its current business within traditional channels while also reaching out to new categories and new markets.
Having successfully grown [...]

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