We found this trolling the blogosphere- thanks Do The Green Thing blog. After the address, add any keyword you like and it will load movies accordingly. We started with http://upl8.tv/bob-marley. Hit the space bar to change the channel. Go crazy!
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by Pat Cervone

5. The guide hasn’t been on TV

4. Enjoys Just being out in nature but wears clothes

3. Has been out of rehab for more then 2 days

2. The guide doesn’t have a deep fried in the back of the boat —

1. Make sure the guide has a sense of humor because he’s going to need it

Wayne Luallen has tied most every type of fly he could get his vise clamped onto since 1974. He has demonstrated at numerous local, regional, national, and international events, including National FFF Conclaves since 1980. His work has been published in several magazines and books in the U.S. as well as Europe, including Tying the Classic Salmon Fly edited by Mike Radencich, and more recently Wayne tied the flies for Basic Fly Tying: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started edited by Jon Rounds, photographed by Mike Radencich, and illustrated by John McKim. Wayne received the Wayne “Buz” Buszek Memorial Fly Tying Award in 1991. Wayne is especially fond of teaching the details of fly tying through better understanding of the nature of tying materials as well as better application and use of tying thread.
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We have been bringing you reports on the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition for quite some time now. To get Shell to stop drilling these sacred headwaters seems almost impossible but with such a loud public outcry, they have suspended their drilling — for now. It is one great step for conservationists everywhere, but we must remain vigiliant! Congratulations to everyone that made their voice heard to save this precious environment.
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Over at DoTheGreenThing.com they try and make it enjoyable to be green by giving you a green thing to do each month - wow that’s a lot of greens. August’s thing To Do is drink tap water. The video Tears of a Cloud is a play on the ridiculous use of branding to try and market bottled water as something more than just water.

In issue 10 of This is Fly we are giving away a bag from Osprey. For weeks now people have been writing in on how they would use the bag. We picked our 3 favorites and now you can vote on yours.

1. richb
This bag will lead so many multiple lives it might get arrested. By day it will lug around a Mac filled with mediocre designs. Designs that started out great but were edited so many times by project managers that they end up neutered like an unwanted stray. It will be filled with flash drives and external storage DVDs, scribbled notes from useless meetings. It will hunger for more substance and meaning.

After a “hard days work”, it will be co-opted and filled with freezer packs and little plastic containers of fruit, and stainless steel water bottles with little pop-up straws. Diapers and wipes will find their way into the bag, and the bag will wonder…’how did I get here…?’, and ‘is this what I was made for…?’.

But every once in awhile, when the planets align and the benevolence of the fishing gods isn’t superceded with “plans” and “get togethers”…it will fulfill its destiny. It will accompany me on long drives through the mountains to destinations filled with eager trout. Trout steadily gliding along the rocky floor of a river. Trout that occasionally float up so gently that you barely notice it when they softly break the surface. Trout that disappear without warning and then suddenly show themselves again like apparitions.

None of which will take my fly.

On the return trip home it will catch my tears.

Fckn bag. Why am I cursed in this manner?!!!

2.kenflyfish
My wife doesn’t allow me to go fishing because she doesn’t like to take care of our baby alone during weekend. Then, let me carry my baby in this bag so that I can go fishing without getting any complaint from her! I desparately wanna wet a line!!
Thank God for giving me a chance…

3.imatchthehatch
I would use it to get laid

When you are out fishing bass hard and there is nowhere to relieve yourself of all that coffee you had before you went out - lucky for you CoverYourbass.com has produced a portable bathroom that gives you the privacy you need when in a tight situation. The tent opens on both ends for some good cross ventilation - just tell your buddy not to stand down wind.
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This is Fly sticker spotted on Grand Bahama - stop and get some conch salad!

Nomad is currently giving away a portable power washer every month. Just submit your email and they will do a monthly random drawing. This is a great tool to help stop the spread of Aquatic Nuisance Species. Clean your boat , gear, waders, boots..you can even wash off all the cash you save when you win!
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Sweaty Waders, the blog of Sweetwater Travel and Sweetwater Fly Shop, is a new blog to enter the blogosphere that was sent our way this morning. Fried chicken, flies, Steelhead, art shows, gurus, women anglers, Trevally, Salmon, Bones, Tuna, the South Pacific, Brazil etc. These guys have a good log on what they are doing ( travels, explorations and conservation efforts) . With that said SW - enjoy your shout out - we hope it brings you some fresh eyeballs.
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