Tenkara, the new Bamboo

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A GUEST POST BY TIM HARRIS OF NORTHWEST-TENKARA.COM Fly fishing began in both the west and east with a long supple rod, a fixed line, a leader and a fly. This is how Dame Juliana Berners, Issac Walton and Japanese commercial fisherman fished. Time went by and...

Sunday’s Classic / Strike Indicators, What Matters to Me

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DO STRIKE INDICATORS SPOOK FISH? There is a lot of debate over whether strike indicators spook fish. I'm not going to beat around the bush on this one folks, because I truly believe that most of the time they don't. Especially if you rule out flat...

Saturday’s Shoutout / MidCurrent Talks Musky & Towee Rivermaster SRO

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This week's Saturday Shoutout we bring you two great reads from MidCurrent. One's a fly fishing musky primer and the other is a really cool Q&A piece with Captain Todd Gregory (Towee Boats master builder). It talks about the ins and outs of the boat...

RIO Perception Fly Line Review and Product Video

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RIO has made a big splash for itself this year with its new RIO Perception fly line. It was awarded Best New Fly Fishing Line for 2014 at the European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (EFTTEX) and it also took home the award for Best New...

The Bite Of The Venomous Brown Trout Or, Stopping Fishfinger

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WE THINK OF TROUT AS PURE. Perfect creatures born of virgin waters. Incapable of anything unclean. So, I wasn't especially concerned the other day when a nice twenty-one inch male brown, from the Delaware, bit the ever living shit out of me. I knew I was likely...