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The Hang Of It - Fly Fishing. Why an Emerger will out fish your dry fly any day

Fly Fishing Emergers. A semi-sunk fly projects more visible stimulus than a high and dry pattern, so it makes a lot of sense to use a design that penetrates the surface film as a ‘searching patter...

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Fly Fishing: Fly Rod Ratings, Fly Line Weights and the Arms Race

At best the term “5 weight’ is used to describe the weight of fly line a given fly rod designer reckons you should be casting on their rod. But with line measurement effectively out the window, thi...

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Fly Fishing - Floating Fly Lines vs Sinking Fly Lines - Which Weighs More?

Which weighs more, a floating fly line or a sinking line? It may surprise you to know that they both weigh the same - at 30 feet anyway. Or at least they should.For example, under the AFFTA system...

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Fly Fishing - More thoughts on “selective" trout from Bob Wyatt

"We know that simple-brained animals like trout can’t deal with a lot of information at once, so while they are hunting they probably can’t think of much else.  This isn’t selectivity but tunnel vi...

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Fly Fishing / Fly Casting - the Roll Cast

Fly Casting  - The Roll Cast. I can't over emphasise how important this cast is. Deceptively simple, the Roll Cast is the most useful and versatile cast there is - more so than the fundamental over...

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Fly Rod Building Wrapping Guides

Fly Rod Building - Wrapping Guides. A nice clip from Epic Ambassador Norbert Renaud showing how to wrap our 888 - 8 weight FastGlass fly rod blank