Mike P, Author at Ole Florida Fly Shop

EP Practical Brush Review | The New Articulated Fly Brush

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Mike P

The EP Practical Brush is the perfect combination of extremely durable EP Fiber with subtle EP Sparkle flash on a stainless steel wire core brush. These brushes come in a combo pack with 6 different sizes ranging from .50", .75", 1", 1.25", 1.5", 1.75" Width. The 6 different sizes aid tremendously while tying articulated streamers [...]

What To Do If Your Welded Loop Breaks | The Better Connection

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Mike P

Fly line to butt section of leader is an extremely important connection. Almost all the new fly lines come standard with pre-welded loops that look like this: Although these welded loops connected to a perfection loop test out just as strong as an albright knot, stuff happens on the water and you can be left [...]

How To Add A Loop On Your Leader | How To Tie The Perfection Loop

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Mike P

How to tie the perfection loop! (Video above) Mike P goes over how to tie a perfection loop. This is our favorite knot for making a loop at the end of a leader. One of the most popular knots due to its strength and ease of tying. You can also make it more snag-free with [...]

Wintertime In The Everglades With Capt. Jason Sullivan

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Mike P

As the Florida weather starts to shift to cooler temperatures with bright high skies it makes for an incredible experience in Everglades National Park with some of the best fishing you can have all year. We met up with Captain Jason Sullivan of Rising Tides Charts, someone who spends most of his life trying to [...]

Attaching Backing To Fly Line Without A Welded Loop | The Albright knot

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Mike P

Here's how to tie an Albright Knot! (See video above). This is our favorite knot to attach backing to a fly line without a welded loop on the rear end, as well as to attach the butt section of a leader to a fly line without a welded loop on the front end. We favor [...]

Fly Tying Tool Review | The New Cottarelli Hackle Pliers

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Mike P

When it comes to innovative, great working designs, this is one of them. The new Cottarelli Hackle Plier is a tool that really makes tying more pleasurable. Having control of your material while tying makes for a better finished bug and a better experience at the vise over all. These adjustable hackle pliers grab and [...]

Sage Sonic Review

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Mike P

Sage Sonic's nitty-gritty casting performance, the all-around workhorse. We are going to be focusing on the 9Ft 5 weight, the “bread and butter” trout outfit. Let's just jump straight into the casting performance of this rod and how it feels at different distances. This review is done with Cortland Ultralight fly line for all the [...]

A Long Weekend | SpringTime Trout

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Mike P

To get away from the salt flats and change up the scenery we took a quick 11 hour drive to beautiful North Carolina; the Ole Florida crew was ready to take those mountain trout. Mike, Richie and Bert set out to do one night at casting for recoveries lodge with Tucker Horn who invited us [...]

The Most Used Fly Tying Tool

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Mike P

The most used tool in fly tying. So you sit down at your tying bench after coming up with the next big pattern that is hands down going to be the best fly you have ever tied. You know exactly what hook and what material it needs, so you slap the hook in the vice [...]

Fly Fishing The Tamiami Trail 101

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Mike P

About the Trail The Tamiami Trail is a road that was built in 1928 and its name is a contraction of "Tampa to Miami". For some people the Tamiami Trail is just a way of getting from one side of the state to the other. A road that runs from the east to west coast, [...]