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  • xavier with a goofy grin
    May 13, 2025

    Road Trip Ideas to Avoid Runoff

    Fly fishing during runoff can be a drag, with very few options available to anglers it can be hard to be motivated to fish. We all know that our local tailwaters, stillwaters, and warmwater options are available during this time...

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  • 3 Flies for the Week: May 6
    May 6, 2025

    3 Flies for the Week: May 6

    Spring is here and the fishing has been amazing! We’ve been receiving some cooler weather lately, but don’t let that deter you from getting out. These cloudy, rainy days offer the best BWO dry fly fishing. Caddis are beginning to...

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  • The Christmas Island Crew
    May 5, 2025

    Tails from the Road: Christmas Island

    A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to take a hosted trip with eight of our customers to Christmas Island. The trip was truly incredible and unlike anything I’ve done before. Wade fishing the endless sand and coral flats,...

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  • A pretty nice rainbow trout
    March 24, 2025

    3 Flies for the Week: March 25, 2025

    It’s been a while, but we’re back! Although we had a relatively mild winter this year, it is nice to know that spring is here and warmer weather is around the corner. A great sign for anglers that spring is...

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  • Harper with a Tarpon in Puerto Rico
    March 10, 2025

    Making Saltwater Fishing More Accessible

    These days, if you follow mainstream fly fishing on social media, you’ve probably noticed an abundance of content about saltwater fly fishing, particularly in tropical, exotic locations where anglers target species you didn’t even know existed. Like many others, I’ve...

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  • 20lb Rainbow Naknek Alaska
    January 16, 2025

    Tails from the Road: Naknek River, Alaska

    Alaska is truly an angler’s paradise, with so many opportunities to pick from it seems like one could spend an entire lifetime in the 49th and still just scratch the surface. If you recall from a few months back, Tryston...

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  • Xavier lands a pretty rainbow
    January 7, 2025

    3 Flies for the Week: January 7

    It’s wintertime, well sort of. Up until the past few days it’s been a mild winter and it was really feeling like an extended fall. Regardless of the weather, the bug life and fish are behaving like it is winter....

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  • Tryston with a monster redfish
    December 10, 2024

    Tails From the Road: Louisiana Dogwood Lodge

    We’ve just returned from our first hosted trip with The Dogwood Lodge in Hopedale, Louisiana, and let me tell you, we were welcomed with some of the best Cajun hospitality you can find. Upon arrival, we were shuttled to the...

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  • Sean and Kevin psyched about catching trout
    November 21, 2024

    Winter Road Trip Ideas

    Although it’s technically fall, we’ve certainly seen our fair share of winter weather already. This is the time of year where most anglers quit fishing, or are stuck fishing sz24 midges on our technical tailwaters. Our tailwaters are phenomenal fisheries,...

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  • Xavier holding a Rainbow Trout
    November 20, 2024

    Tails from the Road: Two Days in Gunnison Country

    There aren’t many places in Colorado that are as heralded as the greater Gunnison area. With endless amounts of public land, water, and happy fish, it certainly deserves all the credit it receives. Whether you want to fish the trophy...

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