Gary Merriman Ties The Tarpon Toad

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I'VE KNOWN GARY MERRIMAN FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS AND ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT A YEAR AGO THAT HE WAS THE CREATOR OF THE TARPON TOAD. The Toad is a great pattern and almost anyone who has fished for tarpon has tied one on at some point....

Trout Utilize Shade Year Round and So Should Anglers

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When fly anglers bring up the topic of targeting shade in conversation for catching trout, most of the time they're talking about doing it during the dog days of summer. Although it's true that trout will regularly seek out shade (for cooler water) when water...

6 Tips for Executing a Proper Figure-Eight Retrieve

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For the first time, this year, I got to experience the thrill of watching a musky devour my bucktail streamer right at the boat during a figure-eight retrieve. I had dreamed of witnessing this first hand for years, and I have to say, it live...

Saturday Shoutout / Hatches Realistic Ant and Early Season on Depuy’s Creek

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This weeks Saturday shoutout goes to Hatches for a great step by step tutorial on a super realistic foam ant and Fly Anglers Online for a great article about early season trout tactics for Depuy's Spring Creek in MT....

9 Fly Fishing Gear Picks for 2013

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Gink & Gasoline sees it as our duty to inform the community when we run across great fly fishing gear. With many of you having such busy work schedules, we know it can be awfully hard to keep up with all the new products being...