Jason ties on something lusty. Photo: Cameron Miller The fall/winter issue of The Drake magazine includes a great section on the Seven Sins of Flyfishing. Tom Bie (Drake publisher) made a perfect choice when he asked Jason Koertge to write about swinging for kings at Alaska West for the piece on Lust. Anyone out there…
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Speypages Week on the Dean
Dana fishes Bill’s. Dana Sturn, founder of Speypages.com and casting instructor extraordinaire, visited us at BC West on the Dean this year for some Chinook salmon fishing with a few steelhead thrown in as a bonus. He liked it so much he booked the lodge. Dana will be hosting a Speypages Dean River Spey Week…
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Angler’s Tonic
Greg’s stuff is cool. Photo: Angler’s Tonic Today we’ve got a new fly fishing-related website that we think you should check out. It’s called Angler’s Tonic, and it’s by Greg Thomas. You might know of Greg because he wrote a guest post for us a while back about targeting Fresh Fish. More likely, you know…
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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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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 2 – Sage and Rio Highlights
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
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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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 1 – Simms Roundup
Early afternoon fun in the Simms booth. Greetings from Fly Fishing Retailer in Denver! We’ll be posting a couple of times a day this weekend with reports on the new gear that’s being released at the show. We’re wrapping up our first afternoon – so far we’ve had a short walkthrough of the show floor…
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Fly Fishing Retailer – One Week Out
Cutting edge flies for silver salmon – possibly on display at FFR. Maybe. Photo: Cameron Miller A week from today we’ll be headed to Fly Fishing Retailer, our industry’s one big annual tradeshow. Fly tackle manufacturers, their equipment reps, fly shop owners and the whole cast of characters in the fly fishing industry will all…
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The Flyfish Journal
Right where it belongs – on the coffee table. Photo: The Flyfish Journal We’re pretty fired up about a new addition to the fly fishing media world, and believe it or not this one’s not a web site. It’s not quite appropriate to call it a magazine either – The Flyfish Journal is a super…
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