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Waterworks-Lamson Cobalt Fly Rod Review

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Mike P

The Waterworks-Lamson Cobalt is fit for a more relaxed casting approach. It loads easily, and it loads quickly. This makes it a favorite of ours for sight fishing, because most sight fishing shots occur at distances between 30-50ft, not a very long cast. So you have to be able to land your fly with a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Umpqua XS435 Bendback Hook Review

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Mike Mastropasqua

Bendbacks are such a great fly to have in your fly boxes. They're light and they're weedless! You can bang them up against mangroves for snook all day long. They'll ride through grass where redfish and seatrout are stalking, they'll bounce off lili pads where largemouth and peacock bass are hunting, they'll even help keep [...]

2020 Loon Tying Tools Overview

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Mike Mastropasqua

Loon Outdoors has laid out a nice new arsenal of tying tools to start 2020. The kind of tools that give your tying desk an air of credibility and a sense of uniformity. Tools that add style to function. The Hair Packer pushes deer hair nicely with its simple no-slip design that surrounds the hook [...]

Scientific Anglers Infinity Salt vs Grand Slam

Scientific Anglers Grand Slam vs Infinity Salt Fly Lines

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Mike Mastropasqua

FFI certified casting instructor Gene Geppert was practicing a long quick cast with a weighted fly. A cast generally used during a permit encounter, but more specifically an Exmouth Indo-Pacific permit - as there you usually have to make a longer cast. They don't use skiffs in Exmouth and you usually can't get anywhere near [...]

Fire Tail: Coq De Leon Perdigon Feathers Saltwater Applications

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Mike P

We brought these traditional dry fly and nymph feathers in for their potential in the saltwater world. The mottled and unique looking colors of the Fire Tail series caught our eyes. Turns out they catch the eyes of tarpon, snook, bonefish and redfish as well. Spirit River's UV2 dying and processing makes these feathers even [...]

UV Highlights with UV2 Raptor Hackle

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Mike P

UV2 Raptor Hackle is a short Rhea plume, traditionally used for spey flies. It's a great short plume with awesome colors for your steelhead flies, but there's another bigger difference from normal Rhea plumes - Spirit River's unique UV2 dying and processing makes this hackle more easily visible to eyes that are sensitive to UV [...]

Umpqua X Series Hooks Straight To The Point Review

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Mike P

Umpqua's new X Series Hooks for the salt For creating imitations of saltwater species' food sources, Umpqua has just launched the new X Series of hooks. Umpqua is one of the biggest names in fly design, so they know how a hook should be designed for flies. These hooks are crazy sharp and crazy strong. [...]