Its safe to say that ‘thingamabobber style’ strike indicators have taken over today’s nymphing scene. Whether or not you choose to fish under an indicator, its hard to argue their effectiveness. They cast reasonably well, float virtually forever, and are a breeze to attach to any standard leader. However, a downside to many modern strike…
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Airflo
Splicing a Loop in Miracle Braid (or Backing)
One of our favorite running lines for skagit style spey casting is Airflo’s Miracle Braid. It handles well in all conditions, shoots like a rocket, and better yet, it floats! Not to mention it sounds super cool as it zips through the guides. Creating a loop in Miracle Braid to attach to a skagit head or backing can be…
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Really Heavy Skagit Heads
If you followed our blog much this summer, you may remember that we ran a series of king salmon spey rod reviews based on our experience fishing during the early season at BC West. If you missed that series, here’s the wrap up post. We tend to follow spey tech pretty closely, but in the…
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Making Loops on Sinktips
A second installation in our sinktip strategies novella, here’s a looping method that began as what Alaska West guide Jeff Hickman dubbed a ‘bush fix,’ and has since become one of the two main ways we’re custom building on-the-river sinktips to suit the current conditions. First off, get yourself about 40 feet of Rio’s T-whatever….
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Depthfinding: The Real Beauty of the New Skagit Intermediate Heads
We’re absolutely loving the new Tom Larimer-designed Airflo Skagit Intermediate Heads for a lot of reasons and here’s how we’re using them to get deeper (hint: it’s might not be exactly how you think). The obvious: The head itself does cut the surface tension to get down a little—a big reason the lines fish so…
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Airflo Skagit Intermediate
Spey tech alert! Airflo has just released a new head called the Skagit Intermediate. It combines a floating section on the back of the head with an intermediate section on the front of the head. Word is it fishes quite a bit differently than a typical full-floating Skagit head. We haven’t fished this head yet….
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Airflo Skagit Switch – Video Intro
If you’re a spey geek who reads our blog regularly, you’ve heard a bit about the Airflo Skagit Switch head. We told you about it way back in 2010, and last year we wrote our review of it. Our summary on this head is basically that… It’s a modern Skagit head by Airflo designed for…
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Airflo Sinktip System
Our buddy Tom Larimer is back today to tell us a little bit about the Airflo sinktip system and its color-coded loops. Tom’s day job is guiding anglers for steelhead in Oregon. He’s learned a thing or two in his day, though, so he also works as a line designer for Airflo. Airflo has a…
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Airflo Rage Compact Head
Many of us who learned to spey cast using Skagit-style systems have never felt that comfortable casting floating lines. There, I said it! Your fearless editor was raised on T-14; I’m really bad at casting even Scandi heads. These days in the Pacific Northwest, lots of us fish Skagit heads and sinktips most of the…
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Airflo Skagit Switch Review
Back in September we told you about Airflo’s new Skagit Switch Heads – a potential solution to the “nobody makes a modern spey line for my switch rod” problem. Since the early version of the head that we got our hands on at IFTD, Airflo has gone through a couple more iterations. Last month we…
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