Early in our Research and Development program in Southern Chile, one of our guides, Garrett Sullivan, caught this exceptional fish. We took some shots and released it, thinking “man, that was an awesome brown”. When we got home, we sent some pictures around to a bunch of folks, and maybe half of them responded saying…
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What Do You Want From Us?
As you may have heard from us a couple of times recently, our blog just turned 1 year old. Right around 10,000 people are checking us out each month right now – we’d never have thought it, and we really appreciate the opportunity to give you a little dose of fishing in your day! We…
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What Do Wild Steelhead Mean To You?
Photo: MoldyChum.com Any of you out there who are interested in steelhead in the Northwest, particularly in the state of Washington, listen up. We’ve been doing some work with our friends at Trout Unlimited and MoldyChum.com to provide the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife with information about how important wild steelhead are to anglers…
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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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Wading Boot Roundup
A lot of old wading boots are still in use. Photo: Ric Fogel/Sportfolio A couple of weeks back we asked you about your wading boots. With recent news about aquatic invasive species, we wanted to know what kind of soles you’re using on your boots, and why. We got a really wide range of responses…
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Wading Boots: What’s On Your Sole?
Our boots: still mostly felt, but cleaned well. As awareness has built up over the past few years about aquatic invasive species and the damage they can do to our fisheries, anglers have been paying a lot more attention to the soles of their wading boots. Felt soles on wading boots are a great way…
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Favorite Bonefish Rod Roundup
My, what a fast-action rod you have. Our ‘favorite trout rod‘ poll a couple of weeks ago delivered some pretty interesting results, and when we asked for votes on folks’ favorite bonefish rods, we got some great input once again. Which Brand? Brand loyalty is strong in fly fishing. As was the case in the…
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What’s Your Favorite Bonefish Rod?
What did you use to catch me? Photo: Rick Sisler We got some really interesting feedback a couple of weeks ago when we asked our readers about their favorite trout rods. Here’s our post with everyone’s votes, and here’s our post with the results. Today it’s time for round 2. What’s your favorite bonefish rod?…
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Favorite Trout Rod Roundup
Catching me required neither a laser loop nor an 80′ cast into the wind. Photo: Chris Price Thanks to the folks who weighed in on our “What’s Your Favorite Trout Rod?” post last week, we’ve got some somewhat interesting, statistically sort-of-significant, semi-scientific data to present today! Actually we got some great input across the board….
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What’s Your Favorite Trout Rod?
Hmmm, my mouth hurt like that was a 690-4 Z-Axis with G5 technology. Photo: Cameron Miller We spend a lot of time on our blog telling you which gear the experts use. Today it’s your turn. What’s your favorite rod to use when you’re fly fishing for trout? Yes, we know that it could be…
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