Gear

Airflo Rage Compact Head

December 23, 2011
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Many of us who learned to spey cast using Skagit-style systems have never felt that comfortable casting floating lines.  There, I said it!  Your fearless editor was raised on T-14; I’m really bad at casting even Scandi heads. These days in the Pacific Northwest, lots of us fish Skagit heads and sinktips most of the [...]

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J.E.B. Hall’s Sculpin Rig

December 21, 2011
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Last week you got to soak up some Alaska mousing knowledge from JEB Hall, courtesy of our expert rig post on how he approaches mousing at Alaska West.  Today, our JEB trout series continues, with The Goods on how JEB fishes sculpin patterns.  Read on! The Summary Sage 690-4 One Sage 4250 Reel Scientific Anglers [...]

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Keeping Sinktips Organized

December 16, 2011
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Tom Larimer has spent just north of 4 million days on the water chasing steelhead and salmon, and he’s figured out some pretty helpful tips along the way. Today’s topic?  Keeping your sinktips organized. It’s a video.  Here are the highlights. Keeping Sinktips Organized Wrap the sinktip around your hand Tie it off with an [...]

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J.E.B. Hall’s Rodent Rig

December 13, 2011
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J.E.B. Hall is more than just The South’s Cultural Ambassador to Alaska West.  He’s an actual ambassador for Feel Free Kayaks, the author of the Southern Appalachian Fly Guide, and he takes real good photos.  Most importantly though, he’s one heck of a fly fishing guide, and he knows his rainbow trout, and he’s one [...]

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Kast Steelhead Glove Review

December 12, 2011
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A few months back we heard from the folks at a new company called Kast Gear.  They make a few different products designed for fishing in the cold.  They sent us a pair of their Steelhead Gloves to try out. We fished them in cold weather.  We liked them.  Here’s why. Design and Fishing Use [...]

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T-Shirt Contest – Identify This Fly Box

December 9, 2011
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It’s contest time!  The rules are very simple. Have a look at the fly box above. Based on its contents, guess where (region/province/state is fine) and when (which month) the picture was taken. Submit your answer in a comment on this page. On Monday the 12th we’ll do a drawing from everyone who gave the [...]

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All About Rainbow Trout

December 6, 2011
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Two of the most popular pages on our web site are our All About Bonefishing and All About Spey Fishing pages – big ol’ lists of posts on some of the topics closest to our hearts, categorized for easy access. We’re kind of slow learners, but we decided “Hey!  We should do more stuff like [...]

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Prevent Rod Mating

December 2, 2011
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It’s one of the most challenging situations facing the spey angler. Dealing with an upstream wind on river right? Nope. Fixing your tailing loop?  Negative. Untangling your quiver of spey rods every time you get out of the boat?  That’s the one. Lucky for you, Tom Larimer is here today in HD video glory, to [...]

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SmithFly Modular Fly Fishing Gear

December 1, 2011
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At IFTD in New Orleans this year, our friend Cameron Mortenson dragged us over to a display in the small business section – “you gotta check this stuff out”!  The company was called SmithFly, and they make modular fly fishing gear. What’s modular fishing gear?  Well, after IFTD the folks from SmithFly were nice enough [...]

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