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Rio Alloy Hard Mono

April 26, 2011
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A few months ago, we ran a video featuring Bruce Chard that detailed his approach to tying leaders for flats fishing.  If you fish on the flats, you really need to check out the video – we’ll give you another chance with a link right here. The foundation of Bruce’s leaders is Rio’s Alloy Hard [...]

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Gear Review Roundup

March 24, 2011
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We like fishing gear.  We even like trying out new fishing gear and then writing what we think about it. Right now there are 229 posts about gear on our web site, and we often hear from folks that they’d like to see more.  Not to worry – we’ve got a bunch in the works [...]

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IFTD Gear – Sage, Rio, Redington, Tibor

September 10, 2010
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…and the gear reports from IFTD continue!  This afternoon’s update covers the highlights of what we’ve seen so far from Sage, Rio, Redington and Tibor. Sage 589-4 Xi3 Sage is making the kick-butt Xi3 in a 5 weight.  The 8 foot 9 inch length helps it feel really light in your hand.  This rod would [...]

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Rio Tropical Clouser – Sage and Rio Drawing

June 19, 2010
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OK, this is your last warning. One week from today, we’re doing a drawing from the list of folks who are signed up for our weekly newsletter.  The lucky angler whose name we draw is going to get sent, at no charge – not even postage,  a $1375 super-high-end bonefishing setup – a Sage 890-4 [...]

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Free Sage Xi3 Setup, Anyone?

May 28, 2010
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Everyone who is signed up for our weekly newsletter on June 25 has a shot at winning a (very slightly used) Sage 890-4 Xi3 rod, a Sage 6080 reel and a matching Rio Tropical Clouser line.  Really?  Really. If you’ve been reading our blog over the past few weeks you haven’t been able to get [...]

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Rio Skagit Flight Review

October 5, 2009

Sorry, no product photo since the lines aren’t out yet. Here’s a guy casting! Photo: Cameron Miller Introduction and Warning This is a somewhat dorky, technical post about Rio’s new Skagit Flight, a shooting head for spey fishing. If you don’t care about spey fishing and would rather look at pictures of fish, click here. [...]

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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 2 – Sage and Rio Highlights

September 11, 2009

Guys casting rods inside. Our coverage of the new gear at the Fly Fishing Retailer show continues this afternoon. If you’re getting tired of the ‘new gear’ posts, don’t worry – we’ll be back to our normal posting schedule on Sunday. This morning we got our detailed walkthrough of the new lineup from Sage, Rio [...]

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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 1 – More Cool Gear

September 11, 2009

This is a new piece of gear that you’ll hear more about soon. This morning we continue our coverage of the Fly Fishing Retailer show with a couple more new product updates for our first day. Titan Rod Vault We spent some time this afternoon checking out the Titan Rod Vault. This product falls into [...]

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Rio Tropical Clouser

May 18, 2009

The Tropical Clouser makes us happy. Need to turn over big flies fast in warm saltwater? At Andros South we do, and for that job we like the Rio Tropical Clouser. Many of our bonefish flies are #2 or bigger. Getting the fly in front of the fish quickly, with minimal false casting, greatly increases [...]

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