Fly Fishing | Ole Florida Fly Shop

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 [...]

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 [...]

Is That One? Sight Fishing Between the Ears

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Mike Mastropasqua

Sight fishing, more specifically saltwater fly fishing on flats is not easy. Well sometimes it can be, but usually it’s not - especially here in South Florida. Whatever degree of difficulty the day brings, it’s always a numbers game of inches and shots. You’re told to practice casting. Which of course you have to. Because [...]

In The Trough: Fly Fishing For Beach Snook

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Mike Mastropasqua

Lines In The Surf When it comes to heart-pumping saltwater fly fishing, the beach snook fishing along the coast of South Florida provides all the action you desire. Every summer the pilchards, glass minnows and sardines school up along the shores of South Florida, setting the table for hordes of snook, tarpon, and jack crevalles [...]

Orvis Hydros Updated Fly Reel Review

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Mike Mastropasqua

This is the Orvis Hydros. The next generation in the Hydros series of reels, ascending from the Hydros SL. With a solid foundation in place put there by the previous generations, Orvis just improved the Hydros in the areas that warranted improvements. It's still the budget-friendly large arbor workhorse you've known the Hydros family to [...]

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 [...]

All About Bonefish with Capt. Bob Branham and BTT’s Dr. Ross Boucek (West Palm Beach Fishing Club)

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Mike Mastropasqua

Legendary Biscayne Bay guide Capt. Bob Branham and Bonefish & Tarpon Trust's Florida Keys Initiative Manager Dr. Ross Boucek's presentation on bonefish at the West Palm Beach Fishing Club. Between Capt. Branham's experience and Dr. Boucek's science, we get some great insight into the state of South Florida's bonefish fishery, as well as some fishing [...]