FLY FISHING GEAR REVIEWSSimms G4 Boa Boot ReviewBrodyMonday, February 09, 2015 The Simms G4 Boa Wading Boot from Simms is one of the most technically advanced high-performance fly fishing wading boots on the market. S...
From high alpine creeks where the finesse of a three-weight is all you need to the major river drainages where throwing giant streamers with seven-weights is the name of the game, Colorado is a great place to experience ...
One lucky winner will land 3 full days of guided fly fishing for 2 people with Vail Valley Anglers, located in Edwards Colorado. The winner will have the opportunity to fish some of Colorado’s finest trout rivers, alon...
Vail Valley Anglers is recruiting new fly fishing guides to join our team of professionals in Colorado and we are offering fly fishing guide training schools as well as a state certified rowing certification course. The...
For the last six years, early spring has meant a journey to the North Platte River in central Wyoming. The river is packed with large, aggressive and hungry trout. The land that surrounds the water has the characterist...
One cannot feel the fullness of something that it constantly changing or has not indulged it or mastered to perfection his pursuit of happiness. Never the same, the water, the weather, the bugs or the fish, this river ha...
Fd: Where is Igloo Lake Lodge located and why has this area become so popular in the fly-fishing world?Jim: Our lodge is located 72 miles southeast of Goose Bay, Labrador on the Eagle River Plateau – it’s very rem...
Top 3 Fly Fishing spots near Vancouver BC
Are you keen on Fly Fishing? Well so are we! We’ve been fly fishing
some of the Best places within a few hours of Vancouver since the early
1990’s. If you've got the bug f...
The World fly fishing championships started in 1983, and believe it or not the first winners that year were the Dutch!Since then, the championships have gained serious momentum, and there has been a WFFC every single yea...
Jack Dennis is The Man.Posted on February 23, 2014 by D Dauphinee An excerpt from the essay, “I’m Goin’ to Jackson” 2012 From the book,“Something’s Wrong with My Fly”The year, 1980.I had taken a Greyhou...
The Gaspé region of the eastern Canadian
province of Québec has long been known for its magnificent ocean vistas sweeping along an extensive coastline and, inland, beautiful pine-clad mountains. It is also world-famo...
The problem with Africa is that it gets in our blood from the very first minute. It´s a feeling that I had heard or read about a thousand times, but I did not think that I could feel firsthand.Now, leaning over my compu...
I wanted to post this article written by former guide and renowned artist Bob White. Bob was the first American guide to guide for Patagonia Outfitters. He first came down in 1986 and guided in Patagonia many seasons. Hi...
Fd: How did you get into fly fishing?Bob: A friend took me fishing one day on the Bow River in the late 60’s. I caught with a spoon three great rainbows and soon enough fishing became my new passion. At the time, I w...
"Have to admit it was pretty cool when my dad wanted to paint one of my photos." Words by pro-photographer Dan Armstrong on his latest project made together with his father, artist John Armstrong. Here's more about it.Fd...
Just when spring is well along the way to the onset of summer, the retamas line the roadways with their bright yellow flowers bringing with them reminiscences of their European origins. They were brought to Patagonia by ...
I live in Western Montana. I don't have much opportunity for warm water fishing. I wish I did. These would be well suited to fly rod smallmouth bass fishing I think.They're also remarkably effective for trout. I cast t...
Fd: How did it all began for you regarding Art and Fly Fishing? Michael: Fly fishing and Art came together early in my life. My father, Walter A. Simon was an artist who encouraged my efforts from the time I was 5 or 6...
Wild landscapes that span tundra, forests, lakes and mountains. Home to the largest population of brown bears on the planet! Majestic beasts that are drawn to the abundant salmon of this mighty river. Flowing out of th...
Season day one is definitively for friends. And as a tradition we
like to start with one of our favorites fishes, Brookies.
This place is probably one the last sanctuaries of brook trout were
trophies can be found in ...
The last house of the small village was some 20 minutes ago and we have driven through an uninhabited landscape following a rocky and sandy track. Huge holes in the asphalt – survived here and there as souvenir of old,...
Fd: Can you tell us a bit about your beginnings? My passion for fishing was born from an early age, but after changing many techniques, I (Luigi Mautino) devoted myself entirely to fly fishing. Later on, I decided to cre...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields? Both fishing and art were things I did not really choose, they are just a part of who I am. In terms of...
Fd: How were your beginnings in fly fishing?Andy: I began learning to cast when I was just five years old. My father taught me in a field near our home, just 30 minutes from the river Dove in Derbyshire, England. I was...
I will speak about the fishing in a few lines but let me tell you something else. After some years of travelling slowly over “The Plateau of the Death” (La Meseta de la Muerte”), the local name of the Strobel field...
Autumn on the Kola. http://chavanga.com Autumn - the best time for catching of a salmon! For me always was a riddle why some my colleagues obstinately try to start at the beginning of a season, the end of May and the ...
Season day one is definitively for friends. And as a tradition we
like to start with one of our favorites fishes, Brookies.
This place is probably one the last sanctuaries of brook trout were
trophies can be found in ...
It might be his different way of seeing things, his unique perception of existence, his profuse creativity or spellbinding storytelling that is so appealing. When Mel spoke you listened, became a believer and hoped to be...
To say the South Fork of the Snake River, in South East Idaho, is a special place would be a real injustice. It probably should be described, at least to me, as a bit like heaven. And, as flat out beautiful as it is, the...
Choosing the Right Fly Line BackingBrodyMonday, February 16, 2015Choosing the right fly line backing could make the difference when you hook that fish of a lifetime. Fly Line backing is something most freshwater fly fish...
Fd: Can you tell us about your beginnings and setting up your guiding service in British Columbia? I started guiding back in 1996 mostly as a flyfishing guide for Salmon and Trout on local rivers and some interior lakes ...
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Hello friends,
2015 started off with a bang for
me, as I left California for Chile on January 2nd to start an epic
23 day fly fishing adventure to South America. The trip would have me visiting
and fishing thr...
Trout fishing invites one to meditate and at the same time gives us the chance of understanding the deep meaning of a sunrise, the trees, or the wind on our faces.The quilted moss over the rocks turns into an ideal site ...
Fd: How did art merge with fly fishing in your life? TS: As far back as I can remember, I have had a love for both drawing and fishing; however, it wasn’t until the fall in 2009 when it occurred to me that I could or ...
While on vacations in Puerto Valley with my
wife I had the opportunity to fish the upper Parana river area. One morning I
went out with Mariano Miraglia, Fabian Anastasio and Matías Pavoni. Both Fabian
and Matías guide...
Noah Rosenthal, Los Angeles, CAIt was Tuesday September 2nd and I was in the middle of the last shooting day of the feature filmBand of Robbers (a modern day telling of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults) when the email ...
This past week, Cody and I set out for a few days of troutin’ in the Driftless. Worked an extra half-day Tuesday morning, and gathered my wits with a quick noon-hour siesta. Gave the call over to Cody,...
The Legend Golden Stone AKA Deep Throat “He didn’t eat it”, is not what you want to hear as a guide or fly tier. Yet there it was, out there for all to hear. It was a good fish to, just over 20 inches I’d g...
Ancient human traces reflected through the tools and art scattered around the basaltic plateau where the Strobel Lake is located get together with exceptional trout fishing, offering to the traveler an image of Patagonia...
(This is an article I wrote for Taylor Creek Fly shop which I was a professional guide for 18 years.I also submitted to The Drake Magazine, I think it’s pretty good. Let me know your thoughts.)Aspen. The mere whisperin...
FLY FISHING GEAR REVIEWSHow to Choose the Right Fly Fishing PackBrodyWednesday, January 21, 2015Fly Fishing Packs: How to Choose Between a Waist, Chest, or Sling PackNot all that long ago, before the development of hi-te...
Cacique Valentín SayhuequeLORD OF THE APPLE COUNTRY -THE LAST GREAT CHIEF (1818 - 1903).Son of Chief Chocori an Araucanian Indian and Tehuelche mother. He was the most important Mapuche chief in the area and ...
Now that we can officially call it Winter, it doesn’t mean the Trout stop feeding. The locals here in the Vail valley are very savvy when it comes to knowing what gear to use when hitting the mountain on any given day....
April lives in British Columbia and is an avid angler and steelhead, salmon and trout guide. She was born with an unexplainable passion for fishing. As a young girl she coaxed her father into going fishing and by the ag...
A 20lb steelhead is a special fish and the benchmark for a giant. A 30lb fish is the stuff of legends but three tributaries of the Skeena system in British Columbia can boost the opportunity to tie into one of these mons...
First published in Rod and Reel: 2/15/1985Roadkill StreamersOf the 364 four pound (or larger) trout painted on the walls of DanBailey's Fly Shop in Livingston Montana:7% were taken on small wet flies.12% were t...
Aloha,
To Whom it May Concern:….I just returned from my “umpteenth” trip to
NZ. I have been going there since 1983. In the past 3 yrs, I have been
going for 3 months a year to fly fish….and my fishing partner ...
A few days fishing in the north of the Neuquén province, in Argentina, made us realize that we can still dream about Patagonia and other sites that have not yet lost the magic that enchanted Darwin in his trips.We were ...