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Outdoors @SpokesmanReview. Former @bozchron editor. Idaho’s best dairy product (2G). Go Cubs. My email newsletter appears more often than my tweets. Link below.
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Part tying, part carving: How Derek Darst turns deer hair into elaborate bass bugs

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By Michael Wright 
| Yahoo Life
May 1—ST. MARIES — The most important part of tying a topwater bass fly is putting enough hair on the hook. So, one Saturday morning in early April, Derek Darst just kept adding more. He tied in clump after clump of deer hair, stacking three colors — green, gray and black. A pair of legs and a strand of monofilament, for a weed guard, dangled off the back of the hook. The hair filled the shank. It was a dense, spiky mess. Then Darst grabbed a double -edged razor blade and the wizardry began.
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Groups planning work on Idaho trails into the Salmo-Priest Wilderness

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By Michael Wright 
| Yahoo
Apr. 24—No part of Idaho is officially included in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness, but you can get there from a few trails that begin in the Panhandle. As long as someone maintains them, that is. Volunteer trail crews with the Idaho Trails Association will be working over the next few years to make sure hikers and horseback riders can use the routes that begin in the Gem State and head into the 41,000-acre wilderness area.
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Groups planning work on Idaho trails into the Salmo-Priest Wilderness

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By Michael Wright 
| The Spokesman-Review
No part of Idaho is officially included in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness, but you can get there from a few trails that begin in the Panhandle. As long as someone maintains them, that is. Volunteer trail crews with the Idaho Trails Association will be working over the next few years to make sure hikers and horseback riders can use the routes that begin in the Gem State and head into the 41,000-acre wilderness area.
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