The last few times I traveled to the South Platte River at Deckers I left my favorite one-hand fly rod at home on purpose. It’s the perfect rod for the midge hatches that sometime occur on sunny ...
“If you’ve never tried casting a two-handed fly rod, go to your local fly fishing shop and wiggle a few spey or switch rods and talk to someone who knows how it’s done,” said Pribanic, who opened ...
When a fishing buddy of mine offered to sell me a graphite Sage rod for a hundred bucks, I snapped at the chance without a second thought, like a brook trout sucking in a yellow humpy on a mountain ...
Never before has there been such a plethora of quality fly-fishing rods available from current manufacturers. Many of these rods are even touted as species specific or even technique specific. Finding ...
The spey rod helped Turek make a 90-degree switch in the casting direction of the fly line, a difficult task with a fly rod. "You could do somewhat the same thing with a conventional fly rod by making ...
Fly line rips the river’s surface like scissors sliding across silk as Michael McLellan propels his two-handed, Scottish-style fly rod across the blue-green waters of the upper White River. As the ...
Fly rods have their limitations, one of which is that they are not good for long casts on streams where there is a lot of current. Yet, the Scots were undaunted by these challenges. They experimented ...
A good fly reel will last a lifetime and help bring countless fish to hand. Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport ...
There are a lot of numbers in fly fishing, and some of the numbering may not make sense to the uninitiated—or to the initiated, for that matter. A higher number means a smaller hook, yet the opposite ...
Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport and an art form that is partly based around making the act of fishing more ...