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This is a collaborative article between Evan B and @clarkman
The "It’s Too Cold" Excuse
Most of the fly-fishing world spends February and March doom-scrolling river flows, waiting for the first hatch, the next "big drop" on the steelhead rivers, or whining about how the bass and carp are "off...
Echo Fly Rods Launches the Overcast Series
Designed by Tim Rajeff and Flip Pallot
WOODLAND, WA — Echo Fly Rods announces the release of the new Overcast series, a purpose-built saltwater fly rod designed in collaboration between Echo founder Tim Rajeff and legendary angler Flip Pallot.
“Who...
OCR’s Bighorn semi-automatic reel is great at what it does, but is it worth the $900 price of admission? Read on.
Aside from newer materials replacing old ones, and the Victorians inventing khakis, fly fishing fundamentals have remained relatively unchanged for centuries. Because anglers and...
I want to start this review off with a caveat - I'm literally over a year late in making this review. Why, you might ask? Well, on its maiden voyage, we learned in the first mile of the float that the bladder had a leak. That wouldn't be the end of the world, except that we both forgot the...
What are wading pants?
As most of us know, waders are waterproof pants that let you stand in the river without getting soaking wet. In recent history, most of them are made of breathable Gore-Tex type material, come up high on your chest, and have integrated suspenders. They look almost exactly...
While it’s possible to fish on foot without a pack of some sort, very few of us do it unless we’re within sight of the car. We end up wanting an extra layer, lunch, a cold drink, and so on. To say nothing of fly boxes, tippet spools, and the like. For most of us, a backpack is a necessity. But...
One of the lakes I fish for bass gets EXTREMELY weedy every summer. It’s not a deep lake and it gets pretty choked with vegetation after we get into the hotter part of summer. This makes running a trolling motor through it kind of a nightmare. Seriously, I've had days when I ended up just...
Recently I had the pleasure of spending a spring day on Hilltop Lake. Hilltop is located just outside of the town of George in Washington State.
Access is managed through Red's Fly Shop (509-933-2300) with both a DIY option and a guided option. For this day I would be doing the DIY option...
So you think you want to target Musky?
Musky are traditionally known as the fish of 10,000 casts! So just take your fish of 1,000 casts (our beloved steelhead) and multiply by 10. Okay, okay, it’s not quite that bad for most folks. Once you figure out where, when and why you’ll raise those odds...
Many of us who chase warm water lake fish want a bass boat. They offer a stable casting platform, storage, room for a buddy, and features like foot controlled bow mount trolling motors. But almost as many of us don’t have the cash sitting around for that kind of fancy and specialized watercraft...
