Last year’s announcement by the 3M Company of their intention to acquire Ross Reels, the US-based manufacturer of high quality fly fishing reels, has now come about and this well-recognised fly fishing brand now becomes the stable-mate of 3M’s other iconic brand – Scientific Anglers. Read more…
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When Eight is Enough!
For anyone born or living in the years from 1977 through to 1981, you may remember an American comedy-drama which aired on ABC called, strangely enough, Eight is Enough. While I would not class this as a fishing show, it is somehow strangely related to this article on fly fishing!
A recent trip out from Maningrida with good mate, Chris Nelson, highlighted this. And no he doesn’t have a family of eight!
I help set Chris up with a rod that in his words ‘had to do everything’. Chris was initially wanting something like a #10 weight outfit. While I am a fan of the #7 weight rods, I knew that Chris may be asking for a little more so I opted for a fly rod in the #8 weight range and went straight for a 4-piece TFO #8. Read more…
Working the ‘long wand’
One of the first things that really stands’ out with fly fishing is the length of the rod used. As discussed before, the nine-foot length is needed mainly for better casting. For the past ten years I have only used standard nine-foot fly rods for all my fly fishing, however I have noticed a gap in my fishing and a slight disadvantage in some areas due to using a nine-foot fly rod.
The main example is fly fishing from a boat. While casting and fighting a fish on fly from a boat is an easy job, it is when the fish gets closer to the boat that you start to wish for a shorter rod. Read more…
Fly fishing – breaking down the barriers
In this first part of our series on fly fishing, our author takes us through some of the basics of fly fishing and helps to dispel some of the myths associated with this great way of fishing. After fishing both the fresh and salt water on the fly for more than ten years, I think he is sufficiently qualified to have some opinion on the sport of the ‘long wand’.
Let’s face it, fly fishing has been around since Moses was a kid, yet, there are many people out there (maybe even you reading this article) that still don’t know much about it.
Maybe because you think it is too hard, or too expensive, or even because you think it is only for catching baitfish or fish in the freshwater. There are even some people that think fly fishing is only for top-water fish like trout – and I am not referring to the coral trout either.
For all the reasons mentioned above (and I am sure there are more), fly fishing really isn’t that hard or that expensive. In the simplest of terms, fly fishing really is just another way of fishing and is not that different to lure fishing. In fact, I would argue that the only noticeable difference between lure and fly is the actual delivery of the lure/fly.
Sure, you can argue that is it a ‘specialist’ form of fishing, but so is lure fishing in comparison to bait fishing. Read more…
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