Tom Larimer is more than a good buddy of ours – he’s one of the top handful of guides in the Northwest, and he also hosts a couple of trips each year to Alaska West and BC West. Tom also happens to have worked directly with Tim Rajeff at Airflo on the design of their…
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Spey Lines for Switch Rods
Today’s post is about using spey lines on switch rods, including some background on why you probably should cut a line for your rod, and the steps you can take to do just that. It’s written for people who have a bit of spey casting experience. Background First, a disclaimer that today we’re mainly talking…
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Creating a Whipped Loop
Today’s post marks the start of a little experiment of us – posting tips, gear reviews and more as short video clips. Our first crack at it features Bruce Chard showing us how to created a whipped loop in the end of a fly line. We know it’s not perfect (wind noise, fly line the…
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Rio Skagit Flight Review
Sorry, no product photo since the lines aren’t out yet. Here’s a guy casting! Photo: Cameron Miller Introduction and Warning This is a somewhat dorky, technical post about Rio’s new Skagit Flight, a shooting head for spey fishing. If you don’t care about spey fishing and would rather look at pictures of fish, click here….
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Spey Fishing for Trout, Part 2 – Gear
Workin’ the little rod on the Arolik. Photo: Cameron Miller UPDATE: Thanks for checking out this post in 2009. By 2012 spey fishing for trout had changed a bit, so we put out this post with an update on spey and switch fishing for trout as of 2012. Feel free to read on, though! We’ve…
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Line Winders
Yeah it’s thick, but it can still get tangled. Photo: Cameron Miller If you fish different parts of the world at different times of the year, you either own a whole boatload of reels or you regularly need to pull one fly line off a reel and slap on another one. If you’re not in…
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Rio Tropical Clouser
The Tropical Clouser makes us happy. Need to turn over big flies fast in warm saltwater? At Andros South we do, and for that job we like the Rio Tropical Clouser. Many of our bonefish flies are #2 or bigger. Getting the fly in front of the fish quickly, with minimal false casting, greatly increases…
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