Monthly Archives: July 2011

Reclaim The Hackle Craze

WHAT price to put a smile on the faces of the women in your life you love and care about? I’VE got to give Chad huge kudos for his idea, gather up all the women important to us: wives, daughters, grand-daughters, friends, and each of the tyers contribute feathers from our hoarded stashes of hackle [...]

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The Articulated Ice Pick _ Tying Video

OUR MATE and North Fork of the White guide/guru Brian Wise, tying the Ice Pick. One cool looking streamer, and we have Fish Skulls and Baitfish Emulator in stock, if you fancy tying this pattern. If not sit back and enjoy the video, its just cool to watch Brian at work.

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Simms Up To The Gills

WE HAVE spent all morning unpacking, counting and getting prepped our first order of the new Fall Season Simms gear, and to be honest its awesome. There is some seriously cool new season product. We haven’t had a chance to get images of everything new but we are working at it. So some highlights: SIMMS Mega Trout DeYoung [...]

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Wait Till Monday

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C’mon Already

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Fishing Report 7-27-2011

I have remarked on it before but there is there is something pretty damn good about guiding father and son combos. Any trip is a good time, but when a trip involves that special shared time for close family, or close friends, it really is a privilege to be running the boat. Kevin Brandtonies had [...]

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The When, the How and Much Much More

  Y’all have some pretty good ideas on stuff you would like to see up here on the Journal. And I had some prompting over the last couple of weeks about some of our past articles and how hard they are to find. Sorry to say but WordPress.com’s search feature has turned to crap, even [...]

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Rainy’s Grand Hopper Tying Video _ Homestyle

RAINY’s Grand Hopper is truly one of our favorite summer patterns, especially with the new Hi-Viz indicators on the back of the neck. It’s always been one of those patterns that has been more of a chore to tie than to buy, so I’m not showing you this video, of a fast and pretty easy version [...]

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East Coast Mayhem

Awesome video chronicling the year-long roadtrip by Pete McDonald and Tosh Brown for their coffeetable book The Blitz: Flyfishing the Atlantic Migration. There is some of Tosh’s stunning images littering the book alongside Pete’s prose. We are taking orders on The Blitz ($49.95 with $5 a copy going to support the fight for striped bass).

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It’s One Day Closer

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Stream Explorer Summer Camp _ Some Spots Still Open

The White River Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s FREE summer camp program for kids aged between 8-16 still has some spots available. Trout Unlimited Youth Camp focuses on hands-on learning via water quality sampling and habitat restoration, fly tying, fly and spin casting, stream side botany, angling ethics and wading safety. Academic sessions include entomology, trout [...]

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IT’S COMING

Arrival time. Early August.

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