ARTICLES BY BILL LOVE JR. CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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If you can walk, you can snowshoe

The wall calendar displays a wintery February scene. But shack nasties are getting you down.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Lead

It's winter so it must be fly tying season

Fly fishers tend to divide the year into two seasons: fly fishing and fly tying. Furthermore, individual months don’t necessarily align with the traditional Gregorian calendar. Instead, they revolve around the life cycle of aquatic insects that excite feeding frenzies in hungry trout. For example, fly fishers eagerly await the …

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

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Searching for redband trout on the 49th parallel

With a fly rod in one hand and a GPS in the other, I waded upstream through the waters of Boundary Creek seeking the 49th parallel. For some unexplainable reason, I challenged myself to catch and release a Columbia River redband trout at north 49 degrees — the exact latitude …

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO