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Fishing for Cutthroat Trout Cutthroat trout are the Pacific Northwest’s true native trout. It’s a survivor, having been here for…

We’ve all stood on the bank of a stream, creek or river and studied it. Either confident in our ability…

Owning a fly vest is a personal choice. You don’t really have to have one to fly-fish. You can still go fly-fishing with a rod, reel, line and a few flies and in truth that is all you really need. As we mature into the sport though we tend to collect “stuff”. This “stuff” consists of everything from lengths of once-used monofilament leader and torn up old flies on still-good hooks, to extra spools of specialty fly lines that we only actually use once a decade but still insist on carrying with us at all times. Packing all this paraphernalia around in the pockets of our fishing jacket just doesn’t work after a while and that’s when we finally decide that we should invest in a fly vest; after all, what good is all this great stuff if we can’t find what we need when we need it?

Regardless of the type or the number of flies you want to pack around, you need a place to keep…

Now that we’ve got our rods and lines altogether and we are ready to go fishing, we need a bunch…

Fly lines are generally around 25 to 30 yards long. That might seem like a pretty good distance, but believe…

Many people, especially beginners, find it baffling when they start looking at lines and rods and reels in combination with…