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      Fishies and Freshies

      Nathan Leavitt
      August 29, 2012
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      Nathan Leavitt
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Bull Trout are Ugly

Derek Olthuis
August 22, 2012
Fish Stories, OSF Video Edits
18 Comments
Pulling up to the Missoula airport waiting for Matt and Kyle to come out I thought, the time is finally here! Months of phone calls, emails and...
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Grayling Fishing in the Uintas

Grant Bench
August 13, 2012
Fish Stories
6 Comments
In between guide trips I had a day off to do some hiking and fishing for grayling in the mountains of Utah. Meanwhile, my wife was back home...
provo-brown-trout

A Welcomed Wet Wade

Nathan Leavitt
August 6, 2012
Fish Stories
8 Comments
I'm not a photographer - I'm a fishing addict. I'm also pretty obsessed with trout. They're beautiful. It has; however, started to bug me a little...
montana-lightning-strike1

Pike Fishing Montana Backwaters

Derek Olthuis
July 26, 2012
Fish Stories
2 Comments
It seems like everytime I have been to Montana lately the weather has tried to shut me down. Rain, lightning and hail. I get a few hours each day to...
stillwater-fly-fishing

No Refunds Stillwater Fishing

Nathan Leavitt
July 9, 2012
Fish Stories, OSF Video Edits, Popular 2
5 Comments
Blitz trip. Again. I think this was the gnarliest one we've taken this year so far, but you gotta pay your dues right? Sometimes it pays off and...
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Roadtrippin’ Ch.2: wiggywiggywoo

Nathan Leavitt
June 26, 2012
Fish Stories
5 Comments
I don't even recall when we arrived at our ultimate destination in Wyoming. It was late. I swear we get dumber and dumber the more we fish together....
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Roadtrippin’ Ch. 1: Bonneville Cutts

Nathan Leavitt
June 25, 2012
Fish Stories
3 Comments
We're retarded. We had a destination in mind but it was going to be a decent drive to get there. We also had another spot that we've been wanting to...
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French Nymphing for Spring Steelhead

Phil Tuttle
June 11, 2012
Fish Stories, OSF Video Edits
4 Comments
A year ago I heard about the idea of french nymphing for steelhead from a buddy, Gilbert Rowley. You are probably thinking the same thing I...
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Fishing with the Lady

Nathan Leavitt
May 29, 2012
Fish Stories, Memorable Fish
10 Comments
I'm on a mission to get my wife hooked on fly fishing. When we met we were both really into shredding the gnar but the way I look at it is that when...
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Spring Wanderings

Nathan Leavitt
May 14, 2012
Fish Stories, Popular 2
9 Comments
I look forward to spring every year. I find myself jonesin' for a fix more on those first pleasant, warm days of early spring than almost any other...
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Estancia Laguna Verde – Last Day

Derek Olthuis
April 30, 2012
Fish Stories, Memorable Fish
3 Comments
Sipping my orange juice at the Estancia Laguna Verde Lodge, I felt half disheartened and half elated. It was our last day at and Jurassic Lake.  As...
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Sight Fishing Jurassic Lake

Derek Olthuis
April 25, 2012
Fish Stories, Popular
2 Comments
Wind, wind and more wind, at least that's what I had come expecting but Jurassic Lake had yet to reveal her true nature to us.  The guide told us...
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Jurassic Lake!

Derek Olthuis
April 16, 2012
Fish Stories
9 Comments
It was Super bowl Sunday...at least to me. Today I would get to see Argentina's fabled Jurassic Lake and find out if it was all I had imagined it to...
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Rio Barrancoso and Laguna Verde

Derek Olthuis
April 3, 2012
Fish Stories
7 Comments
Remote, way out there, untouched, in the middle-of-nowhere: Jurassic Lake Argentina. It seems long dirt roads to get to prime fishing locations were...
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My First Patagonian Brown Trout

Derek Olthuis
March 15, 2012
Fish Stories, One-Hit Wonders
6 Comments
I tugged on my waders and thought, "isn't it summer here in Argentina?" It was cold and had been snowing as the guide picked me up from my hotel. I...
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Strike 3! Carp on the Fly?!

Derek Olthuis
February 10, 2012
Fish Stories
7 Comments
If Nate and I had been lacing up baseball cleats instead of wading boots we would have struck out. I'm not gonna lie, if I knew we'd end up spending...
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(Another) Wintery Fishing Day

Nathan Leavitt
January 10, 2012
Fish Stories
5 Comments
I got great timing! Things have been super busy lately and apparently my only days free to fish perfectly coincide with the only snow days of the...
weber-river-brown-trout

Wet Weather on the Weber River

Nathan Leavitt
November 25, 2011
Fish Stories
5 Comments
Fall was seemingly transitioning to winter and Derek and I headed to do some fishing on the Weber River to chase some brown trout. We knew the...
allen-alpha-2-reel

Pilgrimage to Tiger Muskie Island

Nathan Leavitt
November 19, 2011
Fish Stories, Memorable Fish
10 Comments
5 hours of driving, 3 hours of sleep, and 12 hours of non-stop fishing. Sound familiar? Yep. Sounds like the makings of a perfect fishing trip if you...
thousand-lake-mountain-brook-trout

Thousand Lake Mountain Fishing

Derek Olthuis
November 8, 2011
Fish Stories
8 Comments
It was supposed to be a quick trip, in and out. We figured the lake would be primed and ready to go with the recent cold weather snap, hoping the...
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