Photo: Greg Thomas Warning: this post is about another post about a book about trees. Here’s why we think you might care about a book about Northwest Trees, which you’ll be surprised to learn is a book about trees in the northwest. Lots of people who like to fly fish find themselves in the Northwest…
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Gear
Chris Price’s Streamer Rig
Some burly bugs. Photo: Chris Price When we’re fishing larger water for larger fish at Chile West, one of our favorite techniques is bangin’ the banks – covering lots of water in rapid-fire fashion with a streamer. Nobody knows our fishing in Southern Chile better than Chris Price, our manager at Chile West. Chris lives…
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Sage Xi3 – 890-4 Field Test
The new Xi3, in the flesh. We had a chance to fish the production version of the new Sage Xi3 on Puget Sound this week with Captain Keith Robbins. In addition to the many other rods in our quiver, we fished the 890-4 Xi3 for a good bit of the day. Here’s what we thought…
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Share Your Best Gear Ideas
Anyone carry one of these? A couple of weeks ago one of our readers, Bill Lenehan, sent in a great idea for a discussion on our blog. He wants to know what cool pieces of gear you bring along on fishing trips! Here’s Bill’s background on the idea. “The post from your experts on the…
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King Flies – The Mikey Prawn
Looks shrimpy, no? Photo: John Ford Brian Niska will be one of our spey instructors at Alaska West in 2010, for the third year running. Today Brian tells us a bit about one of his favorite king flies, the Mikey Prawn. One of Brian’s spey weeks is sold out, but there’s still space in his…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Roundup
We saw some great flies at FFR too. These are from Solitude. A week ago at this time we were at the Fly Fishing Retailer show in Denver, keeping you updated a couple of times a day on the best new gear at we saw at the show. We got a lot of good feedback…
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Chile Fly Fishing Roundup
It’s not an ugly place to fish. We’ve got a whole bunch of posts on our blog about fly fishing in Chile, and we decided it was about time to round ’em up for you! In honor of the beginning of our second season at Chile West late this year, we present to you our…
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Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis – Why We Like It
You can cast it overhead too, but we almost never do. If you haven’t noticed, we really like spey fishing for trout, and for swung trout flies in smaller water, we think switch rods are pretty cool too. One of our favorite trout switch rods so far is the Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis. Here’s why. The…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Wrap-up – Ross and More
A bunch o’ reels. The next few reviews wrap up our coverage from the 2009 Fly Fishing Retailer show. Thanks for checking it out! Over the next few months we’ll be putting a lot of the gear we’ve seen to work, and we’ll follow up with some more detailed reviews. Bruce Chard does a really…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 2 – Redington, Buff and Smith
A big guy with a little rod. We’re almost done with our coverage of Fly Fishing Retailer. Here’s the rundown on what we liked from Redington, Buff and Smith Optics. We’ll have one more gear post from FFR this afternoon. Redington Minnow Anything that helps get kids into fly fishing is a great thing in…
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