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Category Archives: Fly Fishing Gear Review
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
Echo Glass Fly Rod Review
This is a very brief report on the Echo Glass fly rod I have been fishing for the last several months. In short, I REALLY enjoy the rod. This is not a long range casting rod like my 9 foot, … Continue reading
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Summer Flies Part I 2014: New Jigged Fly Patterns
We have recently added highly some effective and unique flies to our offering at The Caddis Fly and Caddisflyshop.com. A new series of Steelhead dry flies, more jigged style nymphs, and more colors to a “new to us” but very … Continue reading
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Fly Fishing Gear – Stuff that works
Chris asked me to shoot him a few notes, casual observations on some of the gear I have been fishing as of late. Naturally, I chose to report on the gear that I have come to depend on day after … Continue reading
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Redington Dually Rod Review
The Pacific Northwest continues to be the leader of spey casting and innovation. George Cook has been at the forefront of researching, designing lines, casting, and instruction about spey, switch and fly rods in general. George Cook has taught the … Continue reading
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Fathers Day Gift From Sage Fly Rod Company
This week Sage Fly Rod Company announced to dealers that they could discount remaining inventories of two outstanding rod series and one reel series. Excellent timing for those looking to upgrade or augment their fly rod collection as we move … Continue reading