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This week, it’s our annual Fish Schtick Holiday Gift Guide. We see it all – everything that’s cool in the world of fishing – and we pair it down to the stuff we’d actually like to give or receive this Christmas.

Richard Louv’s biography ends like this: he would rather fish than write. But between “Richard Louv is…” and “…rather fish than write,” is the story of a man who has written eight books and coined the term “Nature Deficit Disorder.” The book that kicked off an international conversation about the relationship with children and nature is entitled Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder. His latest book, The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology.

On a sweltering summer day in 2010, Christine Warren stepped into a 24-foot canoe and paddled toward a goal that she never previously imagined possible. The Texas Water Safari is a 260-mile paddle race from the Texas Hill Country to the Gulf Coast. Run continuously since 1963, the course follows the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers to the coastal fishing town of Seadrift. Paddlers must complete the race in 100 hours. While the exhausting pace and blistering heat are reason enough to bow out, it’s the ancillary hurdles that often eliminate racers long before the finish line: dam portages, water moccasins, logjams, mosquitoes, dysentery, alligators, sleep deprivation, and equipment failures. Paddlefish is the first complete narrative ever published on The Texas Water Safari.

Good News for waters in Nebraska – the Keystone XL pipeline project is on hold until they can figure out how to run it further from our main aquifer … and, probably, until after the next election cycle.

Courtney Ogilvie owns the Nile Creek fly shop on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Surrounded by water and within a spey cast of incredible river fishing in all directions, it’s a pretty wonderful place to live. It’s also not uncommon to have some pretty sensational encounters with wildlife. And when he’s not in the remote wilderness of north and western Vancouver Island or behind the counter at his shop, he’s putting on events like the Spey Clave.

It’s been a long time since Brian has been on the Schtick. Today we get to hear his stories from Cape Cod and British Columbia.

It’s been a while since we did a regular episode – the last couple have been video specials, so we wanted to show the love for our audio podcast amigos. Plus, all three of us have been on the road and had some crazy adventures. Unfortunately, Brian’s sick today and that’s too bad because he had some epic stuff go down in BC and before that, he was over on Cape Cod. You’ll have to settle for Mike and I but we promise not to disappoint.

I love to fly in helicopters…I especially like to use them for shooting assignments. A few weeks ago a good friend and fellow photographer Jackie Shumaker was headed out to do an aerial assignment, so I asked if I could come along and shoot a little podcast about the flight. After getting the go ahead from the AirCam and the pilot we were off. Two GoPro cameras and the Canon XF300 were put in place to capture Jackie, the pilot and the flight. Here’s the result from our short aerial shoot.

We’ve shot for Katadyn/Optimus US for the past several years.  Here’s the latest tearsheet from the Optimus catalog.  

Nanci Morris Lyon & Kate Taylor fished Alaska’s Naknek River, a tributary to Bristol Bay in this year’s 24 Hour Fish-A-Thon. They were our fundraising leaders by such a wide margin that they out-raised last year’s entire 24 Hour Fish-A-Thon. It’s a testimony to who they are, what their fishery is about, and how much passion people have for defeating Pebble Mine. They join us today from Alaska Sportsman’s Bear Trail Lodge .