Thomas R. Pero

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Lifestyle: Now We're Talking Turkey

I've hunted wild ducks, grouse, pheasants and other game birds with varying levels of enthusiasm for 40 years.
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Rafting the Grand Canyon

You can choose between two distinct approaches to seeing the spectacular Grand Canyon on the Colorado River: wait until February, send in $25 for a public
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Where the “little trout” aren’t little

You’ll find brook trout in countless alder-lined beaver bogs and tumbling canopy-forest brooks along the spine of the Appalachians, throughout the New Engl
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Reeling in salmon on Alaska’s stunning ‘lost coast’

During the golden weeks of late September and early October, few places offer a greater fly-fishing spectacle than the short tidal rivers on the edge of th
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Up a lazy river

Three thousand kilometers from tidewater, a porpoise surfaces.
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Reeling in the biggest trout you've ever seen

Stand in a trout stream holding a fly rod for as many hours and days as the patience of your partner back home and the indulgence of your boss, employees o
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Join the Grand Parade of Giant Tarpon in the Florida Keys

Sometime in April, when the turquoise waters of the Florida Keys warm to a certain triggering temperature, thousands of prehistoric-looking fish called tar
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Cast your luck where the sky is born

When the early autumn rains subside and the hurricane winds diminish to a whisper, look for me in a thatched-roof cabana under the palm trees on a sparklin
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Wade right into the Cape Cod surf at dawn

There’s a fun way to beat the crowds of summertime tourists smothering the famous sand-slope Great Beach, the place where Thoreau said a man may stand “and
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Wild brown trout magic on the summer solstice

Magic happens during quiet late-June evenings on Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park.
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Guatemala’s Spirited Silver Demons

Think you’ve caught some spirited fish before? Think again.
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Silver Steelhead in the Wintergreen Forest

In the tall, dark, moss-draped, rainy forests of Oregon’s coastal mountains–a mysterious evergreen world captured perfectly in the novels of Ken Kesey–emer
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