Reviews

Simms Coldweather Shirt Review

April 13, 2013

The Simms Coldweather Shirt is not an incredibly technical piece of fly fishing gear. It’s a simple, well-designed and constructed, ultra-comfortable shirt that you’re not going to want to take off…ever? Pros The Simms Coldweather Shirt is a polyester faced, polyester micro-fleece lined flannel shirt. The polyester makes it lightweight and quick drying – but it’s [...]

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Hatch Backing Review

January 18, 2013

At the International Fly Tackle Dealer show last year we got to play with some new backing by Hatch that at the time seemed to be a little bit out of left field. We walked by the Hatch booth thinking “Really? Dacron is fine. Anglers who need tons of capacity can use gel spun. Does [...]

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Bruce Chard SA Grand Slam Line

December 10, 2012

If you read our blog much, you’ve heard a lot about Bruce Chard. Bruce is one of the premier guides in the Florida Keys. He teaches our bonefishing schools at Andros South. He’s one heck of an angler and a good friend of ours. Bruce is also a line designer, and he has a new [...]

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Sage 7126-4 ONE Steelhead Spey Rod Review

November 15, 2012

We recently got the chance to spend some time fishing another one of Sage’s new ONE spey rods – the 7126-4. Today you get to hear what we thought about it. We’ve written up two other ONE spey rods – here are our reviews of the 8136-4 ONE and the 10130-4 ONE. Design The 7126-4 [...]

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Alpaca Wool Socks – Why We Like Them

November 10, 2012

We try our best to give our readers quality recommendations on fishing gear and techniques, and there’s nothing better than when our readers do the same right back! Longtime newsletter subscriber Loren Irving got in touch a couple of months back with a recommendation on some socks that he discovered. We got ourselves a pair [...]

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ECHO Gecko Rod Review

October 31, 2012

Bill Lenehan is a long term friend of our blog as both a reader and a contributor. We’re happy to say that he’s now also a guests of ours, having joined us at Alaska West for some king fishing this summer. After seeing our post last week asking (more like telling) you to take a [...]

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King Salmon Spey Rod Roundup

August 7, 2012

Today we wrap up our mini-series of posts about spey rods designed for king salmon. We started the series back on July 4th, with a post introducing the concepts surrounding spey rods purpose-built for kings. Based on our testing at BC West during the first week of our 2012 season, we ran reviews of 4 [...]

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Scott King Rod Re-Review

August 1, 2012

Welcome to the fourth out of four reviews of spey rods designed for king salmon fishing. During the first week of our season at BC West this year, we built ourselves up a little quiver of big boy rods and fished them, just so we can tell you all about them. Well, actually we had [...]

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Sage ONE Spey Rod Review – 10130-4

July 18, 2012

It’s the second of our four king salmon spey rod reviews that came out of our first week at BC West this season! Here’s the introduction to this batch of king rods and here’s our review of the ECHO King rod from last week. Today we’re giving you our impressions of the Sage 10130-4 ONE, [...]

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