We ran our first Expert Rig post over four years ago. Whoa! That’s pretty cool…except for the fact that things have changed a lot in the past four years. We’ve heard from quite a few of you that you’d like updates on what our fishing experts are fishing now, so today we start the very…
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Gear
Tube Flies for King Salmon
Our buddy and spey instructor Tom Larimer just posted a really good, really thorough article about tube flies and king salmon. Tom’s article covers Tube selection Stacking tubes Bullet weights Fly colors, and Rigging stinger hooks. If you like tube flies or king salmon (or Tom Larimer), you should swing on by his web site…
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5 Ways to Simplify Your Fishing Gear
If you’re a fly fishing gearhead like us, you know that no matter what you’re fishing for, you can make your gear just about as complicated as you like. Sometimes playing with gear is fun and adds to the experience. Other times, it’s nice to simplify. We’ll just throw out a few ideas – we’d…
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Michael White’s Steelhead Rig
We’ve had a flurry of posts recently about steelhead rigging, and in the process of revisiting everything we’ve written we realized that somehow, in the past 4 years, we’ve never run the Expert Rig of one of the most qualified guys out there. Today we right that wrong. Michael White a. k. a. “Whitey” is…
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Hatch Backing Review
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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Your Steelhead Rigs
When more than 80 of you really thoughtfully wrote up your steelhead rigs for our free Bougle contest, you helped created a really cool resource. Already more than 1600 unique anglers have checked out that page, and they’ve no doubt gotten some new ideas on steelhead rigging, at the very least. Looking at all those…
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Bougle Contest Winner – Tom Ehrhard’s Steelhead Rig
We’re thrilled to present to you the winner of a brand new Hardy Bougle, courtesy of our ‘Tell Us About Your Steelhead Rig’ contest. Tom Ehrhard took this one home with his entry that appears in its entirety below. Before we get to Tom’s rig though, we need to say a few things. You folks…
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Free Hardy Bougle – Steelhead Rig Contest Reminder
Even if you’ve seen it already, make sure you check out our ongoing contest on steelhead rigs. Our readers are submitting their steelhead rigs, and we’re going to pick the best entry and send its author a brand new Hardy Bougle Mk VI 4″ reel. The contest runs through January 6th. Two Big Reasons You…
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Best Gear Posts of 2012
We’re nearing the end of the year, and you know what that means – we wouldn’t be a self-respecting blog without running a series on our best posts of the year. For 2012 we’re going to go with the top 7 in each category, because 7 seems like a good number and we’re a little…
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New Arrivals at the Deneki Store
Just in time for the holidays, we’ve added some new items and re-stocked some items at our online Deneki Store! Up above you see our Andros South / Simms Saltwater Camo hat. Speaking of Simms and flats gear, now you can pick up an quick-drying EbbTide shirt with Andros South and Deneki logos. And finally…
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