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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day Gift Ideas For The Angler And Hunter</title>
		<link>http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/2009/06/06/fathers-day-gift-ideas-for-the-angler-and-hunter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Wife: If you have not purchased my 52 inch plasma TV or a Polaris ATV for Father&#8217;s Day yet, you could consider some of these ideas (Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; I don&#8217;t make money from the links unless you happen to by a Cabela&#8217;s gift card. These are all items I would want for father&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/papa_anderson.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2577 alignright" title="papa_anderson" src="http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/papa_anderson.jpg" alt="papa_anderson" width="230" height="173" /></a>Dear Wife: If you have not purchased my 52 inch plasma TV or a Polaris ATV for Father&#8217;s Day yet, you could consider some of these ideas <em>(Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; I don&#8217;t make money from the links unless you happen to by a Cabela&#8217;s gift card. These are all items I would want for father&#8217;s day)</em>:</p>
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<li>Spool of <a title="Berkley Vanish" href="http://www.tacklefiles.net/fishingline/berkley_vanish.php" target="_blank">Berkley Vanish</a> 2lb test for fly fishing tippet</li>
<li><a title="SPOT Messenger" href="http://www.findmespot.ca/en/" target="_blank">Spot Satellite  Messenger</a> &#8211; The concept of these things is cool</li>
<li>Virtual Gift Cards from <a title="Bass Pro Shops" href="https://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CheckGiftCardBalance?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10151&amp;catalogId=10001&amp;numberGCard=3&amp;currentNumberCards=3&amp;addCards=true" target="_blank">Bass Pro Shops</a> or <a title="Cabelas Gift Cards" href="http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000028125006&amp;pubid=21000000000106205" target="_blank">Cabelas</a> (I can shop online)</li>
<li>Subscription to Hunting or Fishing Magazine like: <a title="Outdoor Canada" href="http://articles.outdoorcanada.ca/mochasofa/client/en/publication/home.asp?id=25" target="_blank">Outdoor Canada</a>, <a title="Fly Fisher Magazine" href="http://www.canflyfish.com/2009/" target="_blank">Fly Fisher Magazine</a>, <a title="Sporting Journal" href="http://www.sportingjournal.com/" target="_blank">Northwoods Sporting Journal</a></li>
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<p>If you want some more ideas &#8211; Here is a listing of Father&#8217;s day gift ideas from some of my contacts on twitter.</p>
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<li><a title="Stacey Huston Photographs" href="http://afocusprintsforsale.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Wildlife Prints</a> &#8211; These would look great anywhere! Suggested by: @<span class="status-body"><strong></strong></span><strong><a class="screen-name" title="Stacey Huston" href="http://twitter.com/shustonphotos">shustonphotos</a></strong></li>
<li><a title="Etsy" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15984276" target="_blank">Handmade Hunting Knife</a> &#8211; Something to hand down to future generations. Suggested by: @<span class="status-body"><strong></strong></span><strong><a class="screen-name" title="Eleanor Hendriks" href="http://twitter.com/studioelan">studioelan</a></strong></li>
<li><a title="Quail Forever Membership" href="http://www.qfstore.org/?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=190" target="_blank">Membership To Quail Forever </a>- There is a Fathers Day Special on right now! Suggested by: @<strong><a class="screen-name" title="Quail Forever" href="http://twitter.com/quail4ever">quail4ever</a></strong></li>
<li><a title="WFN" href="http://www.wfn.tv/dad/" target="_blank">Florida Fishing Trip With Dad</a> &#8211; A contest sponsored by WFN<strong>. </strong>Register Now! Suggested by: @<span class="status-body"><strong><a class="screen-name" title="WorldFishingNetwork" href="http://twitter.com/WFN">WFN</a></strong></span></li>
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		<title>Do you feel lucky? Do ya Punk?</title>
		<link>http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/2007/12/27/well%e2%80%a6do-you-feel-lucky-do-ya-punk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a fun opportunity reading through some flyfishing books over the last few months. As some of my visitors know, I asked the authors several questions and one of those questions was as the title of this post suggests &#8211; perhaps not as informal. What follows is the flies that they would use on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="entrybody"><img src="http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/dharry.jpg" border="2" alt="" hspace="4" width="93" height="121" align="left" />I had a fun opportunity <a title="MO Flyfishing book search" href="http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/?x=0&amp;y=0&amp;s=flyfishing+books" target="_blank">reading through some flyfishing books</a> over the last few months. As some of my visitors know, I asked the authors several questions and one of those questions was as the title of this post suggests &#8211; perhaps not as informal. What follows is the flies that they would use on unknown waters. I also threw in the added twist of saying they could only use one fly&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mr. Mark Williams suggests:</span></p>
<p><img src="http://troutwaders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/ausable_wulf_fly.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="4" vspace="1" align="right" />After two and a half decades of traveling, there are still so many rivers and fisheries I don&#8217;t know but the numbers are dwindling. In many ways, each trout stream is similar to other trout streams. They&#8217;re cold, the trout find the easiest habitat to lair, and so on. But as any angler knows, the same stream differs from day to day, hour to hour and becomes different from itself. So to answer your question all trout rivers are both familiar and unfamiliar. My two common fishing buddies, my two brothers-in-law,<br />
Kenny and David, call Henson Creek a Yellow Humpy water. And it is. But in the early 90s, Kenny called it a Goddard Caddis water. And it was. More recently, it&#8217;s been both a yellow Stimulator water and a red Copper John water. A lot of patterns work on a lot of waters but even on the same stream, one pattern works sometimes, not others; and many patterns work as well as the one you are using. I know that I can catch more trout under water than above and a beadhead Hare Ear is as good as any nymph gets. But I <img src="http://troutwaders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/trude.jpg" alt="" hspace="5" align="left" />choose to fish this unfamiliar water with a dry. I could claim, with positive research and anecdotal proof, that an Adams is as deadly on a Montana stream as it is on a Michigan river or a New York creek. I could offer that I like an Adams Wulff or Parachute better than the standard pattern and no one would quibble. The brown trout in Europe eat up the Adams and its minimalist design. By the same token, I&#8217;ve caught trout on these same rivers, consistently, with a Stimulator, with a Renegade (Lord, how we used to fish with a Renegade, an Asher, a Bloody Butcher), Elk Hair Caddis, Royal Wulff, Patriot, even a House and Lot. I hate to be cornered into fishing a river with just one fly. It&#8217;s hardly fair to take away from me the boxes and boxes of flies I&#8217;ve tied and collected over the years. Rivers change hour to hour and you&#8217;re going to stick me with just one fly? Fine. I&#8217;ll take a size 12 <a title="The Fly Bench" href="http://www.theflybench.com/dryfly/fly0197.htm" target="_blank">Ausable Wulff</a> and I&#8217;ll catch plenty of trout.  But I&#8217;m stashing a <a title="fly anglers online" href="http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw/050100fotw.html" target="_blank">Rio Grande Trude</a> in one pocket and a beat-up Goddard Caddis in another.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ed Quigley likes to use:</span></p>
<p><img src="http://troutwaders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/muddler_minnow.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="5" width="96" height="75" align="left" />Probably the <a title="Michigan Sportsman" href="http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/fly_pictures/muddler.htm" target="_blank">Muddler Minnow</a> because of its versatility. If gooked up with floatant, it can be used as a dry fly with what I call the &#8216;plunk-and-twitch&#8217; effect on smooth water. In other words the plunk gets the trout&#8217;s attention; the twitch says, &#8220;I&#8217;m alive!&#8221;.</p>
<p>Without the floatant, it becomes a streamer cast either upstream or down-and-across.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Randall Kadish would choose:</span></p>
<p><img src="http://muskokaoutdoors.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/adams_fly.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Adams_fly" width="116" height="98" align="right" />Initially, I would have two choices: <a title="visi.com" href="http://www.visi.com/%7Empv/FlyFishing/Adams/AdamsFOTM.html" target="_blank">An Adams</a>, which takes fish on any river, or a <a title="Wolly Bugger" href="http://www.fish4flies.com/Lures/Muddlers_and_Tadpoles/Elwyn%27s_Woolly_Bugger" target="_blank">Woolly Bugger</a>. Because, I don&#8217;t know the stream, and because most takes are subsurface, I&#8217;d choose a Woolly Bugger and cover as much water as possible.</p>
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