Category Archives: Fly Fishing Gear Review

Eventful Fall Bahamas Family Fly Fishing Trip

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

The first week of our annual family Bahamas Bonefishing Trip has been a wild one. We have had all types of weather, more flights than we bargained for, and some good fishing. We have been coming to the Bahamian Island … Continue reading →

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Rigging Fish Skull Articulated Shanks for Stinger Hooks

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Product Review: Fish Skull Articulated Shanks Here, just in time, Fish Skull offers us a nice way to make articulated flies with this product, just released for the 2012 fly tying season. Previously, we have resorted to making our own … Continue reading →

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Airflo Rage Compact Spey Fly Line Product Review

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

This is a product review of the Airflo Rage Compact Spey Line. This fly line is the Airflo Solution to help us Spey fishers who want to retain the key elements of our Skagit casting skills acquired over 75% of … Continue reading →

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Preparing Aluminum Sea Eyes for Tying Baitfish Patterns

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Hareline Aluminum Sea Eyes are huge barbell style eyes that offer profile without weight. We have had excellent success using them on large streamers such as Clousers and Deceiver type flies. Big fish like to eat little fish and often … Continue reading →

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Oregon Cascades Trout Part II: Tackle Choices

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Here it comes folks. Blatant commercialism. Deal with it. Fact is, I got a chance to fish some fly rods, fly lines, and a fly reel that are either new in 2011 or at least new to me. People are … Continue reading →

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Cast the new Sage ONE Rod today at The Caddis Fly

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Our Sage, Rio, Redington Sale Representative George Cook has stopped by this week to write orders for the coming season. While we are in the back battling about some ugly Redington Vest please come by and cast the new and … Continue reading →

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Care of Flies fished in Seawater

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Recommendations for care of flies fished in Seawater. This is a very fine Daiichi Salmon Fly hook exposed to Seawater for several days.

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Sea Run Cutthroat … now’s the time!

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

Sea Run Cutthroat are in already – and it’s only mid July… Last week was a great opportunity to explore and fish my brains out. Spring Chinook season was winding down, but the ocean was there and, for me, a … Continue reading →

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Another reason to wear polaroids on the water….

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

So yes, I admit that I was NOT wearing my polaroid glasses at this particular moment. But I do wear glasses all the time, at least if I want to see what’s going on, and it was early in the … Continue reading →

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Echo Edge Rod Review

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

I’ve broken two salmon rods this spring season, both of which are still being repaired, so I was relieved last week when Daughters allowed me to test out the new Echo Edge 10-weight. Tim Rajeff, the rod designer at Echo, … Continue reading →

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Fly rod position when fighting big fish

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

There are some aspects of fly rod position that many anglers do not consider when they are playing big fish. I am going to cover just a few of these here, recognizing that there are whole books that can be … Continue reading →

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Echo/Airflo Demo Day: Buy a Rod or Bring Your Rod!

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Caddisfly

Join us this Saturday, July 16, from 11:00am to 2:00pm at Alton Baker Park ponds for Echo/Airflo Demo Day. Dan Marshall our Echo/Airflo rep, will be at Alton Baker park with the entire Echo Rod line up AND Airflo lines. … Continue reading →

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Product Reviews from a Gearhead …….

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

I love gear. I am a gear head. Once, before my heart surgery, I would actually maintain my fly fishing gear in a neat, clean, organized manner. Not nearly so these days. I routinely ignore fly reels that would have … Continue reading →

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Rio, Airflo, SA Fly Lines: Review & Product Guide

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

As promised, this here blog entry is a humble attempt to sift through some of the mystery involved in our contemporary – and technically dizzying array of fly lines we have at out hand in our local fly shops and Internet … Continue reading →

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Hardy Fly Rods at the Caddis Fly; Saturday June 11

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Caddisfly

Please join Garry Sandstrom, our Hardy Rods Sales Rep, on Saturday June 11 at the shop to demo the latest Hardy Rods. Garry will be bringing the latest new rods from Hardy, the Sintrix family: both Zentih and Proaxis models … Continue reading →

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