George Cook

Lake Fishing with Switch Rods

May 30, 2011
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We’ve got our fourth of four videos today in our mini-series of videos on lake fishing.  After getting an introduction to fly fishing on lakes, some tips on lake fishing with a tough backcast, and a look at fly selection for lake fishing, now we get to learn about using switch rods on lakes. In [...]

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Fly Selection for Lakes

May 24, 2011
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We’re back today with more lake fishing video action featuring George Cook!  George has already given us an introduction to fly fishing in lakes, and some tips on fishing lakes in spots with a tough backcast. Today’s topic is an overview of the flies you should consider when fishing lakes for trout. In the video, [...]

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Lake Fishing with a Tough Backcast

May 14, 2011
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George Cook is back today with some more video commentary on fly fishing lakes. The topic de jour is some techniques for dealing with a difficult backcast. In this video, George talks about The fact that some of the best spots in lakes, like bays, can have very tough backcast conditions How basic rollcasting can [...]

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Lake Fly Fishing Introduction

May 7, 2011
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Today we begin a short series of videos about lake fishing, featuring one of the deans of modern fly fishing in the Northwest – George Cook. In addition to his day job repping Sage, Rio, Redington, Tibor and more, George hosts guests each year at Back to the Wall, a pair of private lakes in [...]

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Top Salmon Fishing Posts of 2010

January 6, 2011
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Congratulations – you’re about to endure the last of our ‘Best of 2010′ posts. You’ve seen which of our articles about trout, and bonefish, and steelhead were most popular in 2010.  If there’s anything we know well it’s fly fishing for salmon, and today you get to see which of our top 10 salmon fishing [...]

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Switch Rods, Scandi Heads and Polyleaders

October 5, 2010
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In the world of spey fishing there seem to be three types of gear that generate a lot of confusion – switch rods, Scandinavian heads and polyleaders. Here’s our quick-and-dirty, way-oversimplified primer on each of the three.  Look down below for a video from an actual expert, with an example of a situation where all [...]

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Switch Rods and Heads – Sage TCX and Rio Steelhead Scandi

September 16, 2010
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Last weekend at IFTD we told you a little bit about two new products in the world of spey – TCX switch rods from Sage, and Steelhead Scandi heads from Rio. We thought they were both pretty interesting, so we asked George Cook, Pacific Northwest angling stalwart, to make a few casts at the spey [...]

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King Salmon Fly Selection

June 4, 2010
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George Cook pays us another visit today in video form, this time to talk about what 22 lucky anglers are going to be doing a week from today – selecting flies to use when chasing king salmon at Alaska West on the Kanektok. We filmed George in February of this year.  He was looking forward [...]

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Sinktip Secrets

May 21, 2010
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George Cook is the Northwest rep for Sage, Redington and Rio.  He’s done a boatload of fishing over the years using sinktips (especially on the Kanektok and the Dean), and today he stops by our blog in video format to chat us up about sinktips. Here’s what he covers: Sink rate and the ‘type’ system [...]

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