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Category Archives: Fly Fishing Gear Review
Jigged Nymphs: field trial and approval
Just a quick few thoughts on a series of mostly barbless jigged nymphs currently available at the Caddis fly shop. Many of you blog readers know that I am fond of fishing a small coastal lake near our family cabin … Continue reading
Hatch Turneffe Atoll Trust Fly Reel
Hatch Reels are considered one of the best fly reels on the market. Along with our stock of standard Finatic Fly Reels we have purchased a number of limited run Hatch Reels. Only 100 of the Turneffe Atoll Trust 7 … Continue reading
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ECHO GLASS Two Hand fly rod review
ECHO Glass Spey- FG 7129 When talking with ECHO’s marketing manager Red Kulper about this rod the first thing that came out of my mouth was that this rod gives the “poor man and average joe spey nut” the ability … Continue reading
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Holiday Gifts for the Fly Fisher 2014
The holiday shopping season is in high gear. The Caddis Fly has ramped up it’s inventory with all the best fly fishing gifts around. I prepped a video with some highlights but our bandwidth is just not enough for YouTube … Continue reading
December Events with Jay Nicholas at the Caddis Fly Shop
December Events with Jay Nicholas at the Caddis Fly Shop Let’s have some fun and visit and tell some fishing stories. I’ll plan on doing some fly tying demos and answering questions about everything from dory fishing, tackle for salmon, … Continue reading
Bringing Innovation to Tradition
Tony Overstake is introducing new technologies to a traditional sport one customized rod at a time. Fly rod builders are often thought to be grizzled wise men who harbor the ancient secrets of fly-fishing. They’ve lived a thousand years and … Continue reading
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My Best Boat Bag Ever – Simms Dry Creek
Two guy’s daily gear in boat bags, with rods and reels handy I’ve reached a place in life where I fish from boats far more often then I wade fish. Whether I fish out of my own boats or as … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day: Handling Running Line and Utilizing the “Turn Out” Method when Spey Casting
George Cook furthers our previous video discussion of handling running line. He adds the “turn out” method in order to help the caster maximize his or her running line “shoot-ability”.
Tip of the Day: Managing “Over Hang” When Spey Casting
Northwest sales representative for Sage, Rio and Redington George Cook discusses and demonstrates tactics related to “over hang” when two handed casting. Conditions often dictate how the spey caster deals with his or her spey head, and the distance it … Continue reading
Beulah Aero Head Mid Belly Spey Review
The new Beulah Aero Head is a modern mid-belly spey head designed to reestablish the presence of mid belly lines in the modern spey world. Traditional mid belly lines accommodated longer spey rods that were commonplace years ago; however, as … Continue reading
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Sage Introduces the ACCEL Series of Spey and Switch Rods
I spent a recent afternoon with George Cook, the Northwest sales representative of Farbank (Sage-Rio-Redington). After he showed me all the new gear in the shop, we headed out to the river for some “on the water time” testing out … Continue reading
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Summer Fly Patterns 3: Fishmadman Steelhead Dry Flies
Summer steelhead fishing is heating up around the state and it’s a great time to catch a steelhead on a dry fly. The Willamette, North Umpqua and Deschutes rivers are great places to skate or wake a fly. Fishmadman steelhead … Continue reading
Summer Fly Patterns 2: Mercer’s Missing Link
Mercer’s Missing Link may have become my new favorite dry fly! While it was originally designed as a dying caddis pattern for the Sacramento River in northern California it seems to catch fish everywhere. It imitates caddisflies very well but … Continue reading
GLoomis Demo Day: July 26
Set aside Saturday, July 26, Alton Baker Park, 2-5pm for the Caddis Fly Shop Gloomis Demo Day. We will be hosted by Josh Linn, national flyfishing manager for Gloomis. Josh lives in Oregon and is a renowned two handed authority … Continue reading