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1st Annual World Championship Bass on the Fly Fishing Tournament- Lake Fork, Texas

by Wayne Mumford March 10, 2010

Look out Bassmasters, the fly fishing community is treading the haloed ground of the bait caster. And at none other than Lake Fork in Texas, home of some of the biggest Largemouth Bass in the country.
The 1st Annual World Championship Bass on the Fly Fly Fishing Tournament will be held on Lake Fork May 8th.
The [...]

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Fish Bum Vol. II Metalhead, Fly Fishing School for Kids

by Wayne Mumford March 4, 2010

An interesting looking package landed in my mailbox a couple days ago, a review copy of AEG (Trout Bum Diaries), FISH BUM VOLUME II, Metalhead. Thanks guys for sending that up. I will give it a gander here and report back ASAP. That covers kinda scary.
I’m hoping for some furious fishing footage on the open [...]

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Fly

by Wayne Mumford March 1, 2010

In my dreams, and there only…
It’s just that first step.
Last June, for my birthday it was suggested I do a tandem skydiving jump. I’ve always kind of thought I might like to try it and I actually talked about it some-but, when it came right down to it; I chickened out.
There was also the cheap [...]

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Fishy Kids

by Wayne Mumford February 15, 2010

Finally some folks got together with a rational idea for getting kids involved in fishing, fishing conservation and enjoying the outdoors as well as creating their own works of art to enter in a contest for some serious fishing gear!
Fishy Kids is “brought to you through a collaboration of Sporting Artists, Writers, Educators, and a [...]

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A life well lived

by Wayne Mumford February 14, 2010
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For ten years we laid down more miles together than I have with anyone else in this life so far. Fishing, hiking, vacations, road trips, photo shoots we got to do it all. Always ready to go, no itinerary needed. Family companion, kids playmate, 24/7 security guard and cat patrol specialist.
Big body, big heart, a [...]

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Survive a bear attack with duct tape

by Wayne Mumford February 9, 2010
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Two things we know in life to be true. One, a hungry animal, especially a large carnivore is going to eat something when it gets hungry. Consider a bear, a large Alaskan brown bear, there is not a lot of things walking around that he can’t bring down when he’s motivated to fill his growling [...]

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Valentines Day is coming…

by Wayne Mumford February 5, 2010
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Ok, I’m busy hatching an ingenious disingenuous plot here, but first some background. I was just recently blabbing about the Canon G series cameras, namely my old Canon G9 and the newer Canon G11. Good, durable cameras at a pretty decent price for what you are getting. They only have one big problem, they can’t [...]

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Canon G10, Canon G11 update

by Wayne Mumford January 22, 2010

As with all electronic gadgetry these days it’s a never ending parade of innovation, upgrades and hype. In the early days of conspicuous consumption and “keeping up with the Jones’” it was just cars, lawnmowers, and the house; now its iphones, blackberries, gamestations, big screen TV’s and countless other electronic distractions as well.
And well yes, [...]

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