Salt Water
Mack Attacks
"I cast again, saw the fly plop on the surface and a fish break to take it right away. I set the hook and the line flew through my fingers at lighting speed. I knew I had a nice-size mackerel, for sure."
Blitz Season at The End
- By: Paul G. Quinnett
- and Pat Ford
Montauk, the terminus of land off Long Island, New York, is known as “The End.”
During autumn anglers consider it one of the country’s best fly-fishing
locations for striped bass, bluefish and false albacore.
Double-Figure Bones
"There are more large bonefish in the shallow waters of the Florida Keys
and Biscayne Bay in Miami than any other place I know."
Angler's Journal
Returning home to catch sea-run cutthroat trout in Puget Sound...
Coho Exploration
In search of wild coho salmon and coastal thrills off the remote shores of Vancouver Island.
Yucatan Babies
More tarpon than you could hope for-but it's true, the fish are there.
Big Bones with Big Charlie
- Orvis Pack & Travel Sonic Seam Waders
- Winston Boron Rods
- Tibor Spey Reel
- NRS GigBob Pontoon Boat
- Salmo Saxatilis Rods
How to apply maximum pressure but not break my rod? You've really asked two questions, because rod breakage is rarely related to properly applying maximum pressure to the fish if you're using the proper tackle properly. So let's look at rod breakage first. There are really only two ways most fly rods are broken while fighting a fish. The most common is "high sticking," where the angler holds the rod at too high an angle, forcing it to bend too sharply at its weakest point-the tip.
Angling Trade Report…On trends in the fly-fishing industry... Time for a brief preview of the new-products front for 2009. Many of the key fly-fishing market players who led with trump in 2008 are now leveraging/expanding product lines into which they’ve poured significant R-and-D
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