We – and your fellow readers – love the input you give on what you like best about fly fishing. Some of our ‘reader input’ comment threads have become pretty epic! One thing we’ve never asked you about is that one critical piece of gear that you’re wearing any time you step into less-than-bathwater-temperature water…
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Top 5 Posts on Gear for the Summer
Summer fishing is officially in season, and a lot of you are gearing up for remote fishing trips. With that in mind, today we’re presenting you with… Our Top 5 Posts on Summer Fishing Gear New Essential Gear for Fishing Trips. Bet you don’t have a DeLorme InReach SE! Traveling with Spey Rods. Lots of…
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What’s Your Favorite Spey Running Line?
Most Skagit-style spey setups these days involve a separate running line – the thinner diameter line behind the head that isn’t involved in casting, but allows mending and line control and a ‘handle’ for you to pinch when you’re swinging your fly. We’ve written quite a bit about running lines here on the Deneki blog….
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Nautilus Monster Reel Review at G&G
This time of year a lot of us have tarpon on the brain, and our friends over at Gink and Gasoline apparently do too. They just posted a really thorough review of a great tarpon reel, the Nautilus Monster. Yes, they really like it, but there’s a ton of detail for you gearheads out there….
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Hatch Finatic Reels
In the world of high performance fly reels, there’s a new kid in town – Hatch Outdoors. Okay, maybe ‘new’ isn’t the right word, having started up in 2003, Hatch has quickly gained the reputation of some of the finest machined fly reels in the world.. A great perk to operating lodges in world class…
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Wind Your Backing On Tight – Why, Illustrated
Almost five years ago we ran a post about why you need to wind your backing on tight when you’re chasing big fish. A few days ago our good friend Nic Jepson sent us the amazing picture above, which tells the story better than our words ever could. Nic was kind enough to add the…
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Gluing Knots for Extra Strength
One of our most popular post series to date, is our ‘Expert Rig Series,’ where we give the details of how some of the industry’s best anglers rig up for their respective fisheries. We are fortunate to get to fish with many world class anglers on a day to day basis, many of which are…
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Whitney Gould’s Competition Rig
Last week, we ran a post congratulating our own Whitney Gould as she won the women’s division of this year’s Spey-O-Rama world spey casting competition.. again! Whitney won her fourth Spey-O-Rama title placing in six years after taking last year off to fish in Montana (the test of a true fish bum). We’re super proud…
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No Pebble Packs from Vedavoo
The folks at Vedavoo make high quality fishing packs right here in the USA. The folks at the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska have been battling against the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay. Now they’ve teamed up – Vedavoo has released a line of limited ‘No Pebble’ packs to help raise funds for the No Pebble campaign….
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