The Drift - Fly Fishing, Fly Casting and Fly Rod Building

Fly Fishing for Trout
Fly Casting

5 tips to improve your fly fishing.

Be the best you can be. When it comes to fly fishing, most of our failures are due to poor casting skills. Practice makes perfect. Make those fancy presentation mends and accuracy casts second natu...

Gearmodern graphite carbon fibre fly rod

The Difference Between Graphite and Carbon Fibre Fly Rods

So what is the difference between Carbon Fiber (carbon fibre) and Graphite when referring to fly rods? In short, absolutely nothing. Or perhaps more correctly - the Atlantic Ocean. In the US, fly r...

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Fly Fishing & Fly Casting - Tailing Loops And How To Cure Them

Having seen a few tails and created more than my fair share - most entirely involuntarily - I think it best to keep things relatively simple. After-all, we're all about fly fishing rather than any ...

Adventurefly rods for fly fishing

Fly Fishing By Canoe

  “You’ve found a way to make the hardest way to fish even harder,” my dad told me 45 years ago. Maybe, but nothing has brought me more satisfaction over those years than fly fishing from a canoe. 

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Tips On How To Choose the Best Fly Rod

Find the best fly rod with our free fly fishing rod chooser. Choosing the right fly rod is no easy task, length, power, species, fishing conditions and the type of flies you will be throwing all n...

fly fishingCan understanding left / right preference feeding behaviour in trout help fly anglers catch more fish?

On the Other Hand - A new way to look at feeding behavior

There is no question that a number of factors weigh on a fish’s decision to feed. And the demands of his environment—spring creek vs. freestone river—probably override many other variables; however...