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« Previous EntriesFishing 101: eHow.com
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Executive Director Teeg Stouffer was recently tapped to write and host a 10-video series on “Fishing 101” for the popular how-to website eHow.com.
Schtick me in your ear
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Here it is. The Fish Schtick. A mash-up of Recycled Fish and Moldy Chum, stirred up and served in a simmering pot of everything new in the world of fishing, week after tasty week. It’s editorializing on the top stories on Moldy Chum (The Onion of the fly fishing world), it’s finding out what’s new [...]
Ice Fishing 301
Friday, January 22nd, 2010It’s the latest installment in our annual Ice Fishing Viral Videos. Click ‘Read More’ to watch Ice Fishing 101 (2007) and Ice Fishing 201 (2008).
Fly Fusion, the Fish Schtick and YOU
Friday, January 15th, 2010Our friends at Fly Fusion Magazine are doing something special for Recycled Fish members during this current winter “tying season.” (That’s not to exclude you if you live somewhere that you can still get out and wet a line during these long winter months, you can get in on it, too.) Fly Fusion is running a [...]
Fish Schtick Video Shorts
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009We had a great time at the Fly Fishing Retail show in Denver, Colorado (September ’09). For all of the Fish Schtick Video Shorts, visit the Mauro Media channel on YouTube, or just go to www.thefishschtick.com. More videos will be added through September for a total of 15 or so. Here are a few favorites:
12 Questions: Vickie Modlin
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008We live in a time when corner groceries are a fading memory, drive-in theaters are the stuff of nostalgia, and ever more, it’s a rare treat to find a locally owned, mom-and-pop bait shop that will have a group of weathered fishermen swapping lies over coffee and a newspaper at a table in the corner. [...]
12 Questions: Darren Gallaher
Monday, July 28th, 2008Darren Gallaher and I were fishing Chickamauga Lake on a cool, late summer Monday morning. Chickamauga is a Tennessee River impoundment, just outside his home near Chattanooga. When I called him the Saturday before, he’d told me, “I’m out here on the water. I haven’t fished Chickamauga for years and years, but I used to [...]
12 Questions: Ed Rogers
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Ed Rogers is president of FoodSource Lures, a company that manufactures biodegradable, digestible molded protein baits as an alternative to soft plastic lures. Ed, What got you interested in the outdoors? Well, (laughs) that’s a pretty open-ended question, I’m not sure you’ve got enough room on your tape! (laughter) There’s an answer to that question [...]
Crossing Waterfalls
Thursday, April 24th, 2008By: Matt Roberts When I had the opportunity to see him speak at a convention in Western Washington, AK Best was as good as a legend to me. I had been reading his monthly contribution to Fly Rod and Reel Magazine and had read of his fishing exploits as told by his friend and fly [...]
Ice Out Catfish
Monday, March 24th, 2008The sweet smell of spring may mean blossoming blue bonnets and blooming bushes to some outdoor enthusiasts, but to others, spring’s sweet smell is something sour. It’s shad lining shorelines that spells dinner bells for catfish, and savvy catfish anglers can capitalize on it. Spring may bring images of trout out west, or pictures of [...]