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Megan Berns

is the Editor-at-Large at DUN Magazine. Apart from her role at DUN, she works as the Sales and Operations Manager for The Berns Corporation in Gurnee, Illinois. When not being exorcised for Musky hauntings and in the off season she likes to work on her fly tying skills and plan future expeditions.

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Kara Armano

Kara Armano

We had the opportunity to speak with Kara, Communication Specialist at Convergence, and Co-Founder of Artemis, an organization of bold sportswomen creating fresh tracks for conservation. Kara has a passion for the outdoors focusing on fly fishing and conservation.  Her passion was instilled in her at a young age by her great-grandmother.  As an avid outdoor woman, her great-grandmother continued to camp until the age of 96, and finally passed away at the age of 104. You may know Kara as the mar

7/20/2018Megan Berns
Maxine McCormick

Maxine McCormick

For those of you who haven’t heard, Maxine became the youngest gold medalist and world champion in history last summer, at the sanctioned World Championships in Flycasting.  She not only beat all female competitors in fly accuracy,  but outscored every male competitor, except her coach, at only 12 years old!   This young and talented now teenager also “enjoys softball and track, is taking an archery class and wants to take a woodworking class.” You may be asking yourself how old she was when sh

6/30/2017Megan Berns
Hot Bass Flies

Hot Bass Flies

So you’ve decided to target largemouth bass. As with any kind of fly fishing, there are loads of options as to which flies to pick.  This article will help make that selection a little bit easier with these five top flies for bass.  Two things to consider; are you are fishing lily pads or more open water?  If you are fishing lily pads you will want to go surface and weedless, if you are fishing more open water, subsurface flies seem to work best. FROGS: Weedless frogs drive bass crazy!  You wil

10/1/2016Megan Berns
Haunted

Haunted

My favorite season is Fall or what I like to call “Musky Season.”  You can catch Musky in any season in rivers and lakes, but there is nothing like a beautiful fall Musky that has been feeding in preparation for winter.  They are known as the fish of 10,000 casts with 700 teeth, 2 of them actual canines.  What’s not to like? It amazes me the odd looks I get when I tell people my passion is Musky on the fly. A Musky is built like a submarine, but approaches like a torpedo. The bulk of my fishin

9/15/2015Megan Berns