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2012 Fly Fishing Gear Guide
After months of preparation, MidCurrent's 2012 Fly Fishing Gear Guide has been released into the wild. It’s the largest and most complete guide to next year’s fly fishing products that you’ll find.
This year's Guide has more than 160 new products offered by 140 brands, along with 150 videos. Review products by category and brand, check features and prices and leave your comments!
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“Fine Lines”
Current and quotable.- "As an all-around streamer, it would be tough to beat some variation of a Woolly Bugger. Depending a bit on color, it suggests sculpins, other baitfish, leeches, big nymphs—a living, swimming, wiggly chunk of food." - Brant Oswald
- "On the classic South Island dry-fly rivers I fish regularly, you can assume that, if there’s going to be an evening rise, it’ll happen in the slower, smoother bottom third of the pool." - Derek Grzelewski
- "What is it that motivates anglers to want to reach water that they cannot normally reach?" - Tom Keer
Fly Fishing Jazz: On Buffalo Springfield and Bridging the Generation Gap
And it was right then, as I was quietly mouthing the words to the tune, that Charlie chimed in, from his false slumber, to sing the high harmony part (perfectly). We laughed, and then we sped on through the night. He feigned more sleep. I held tight to the wheel.
Read more...“Ask the Experts”
Latest News
Podcast: Rosenbauer on Fishing Wild and Hatchery Trout
Tom Rosenbauer talks where fly-tying materials come from, getting wet flies to swing deeper, fishing logs, and fishing small flies underwater. The main portion of the podcast focuses on different kinds of trout and how to fish for them—hatchery vs. …
Best Wild Places Cont: Delores River
Field & Stream and TU continue their series highlighting the best wild places in America, this time focusing on the Upper Delores River in Southwest Colorado. As are many of the remaining frontiers in the United States, Delores is difficult … more
The Backup Fly Fishing Gear Box
Kent Klewein over at Gink and Gasoline reminds us why it’s a good idea to carry a “back-up” box of fishing gear in your vehicle when you can. Kent mentions that he doesn’t duplicate everything, just the essentials. He says, … more
“Let My People Go Fishing”
Using two “pay to play” fishing properties, one in New York and the other in Colorado, as the basis for his scholarly article for Syracuse University’s legal journal, third-year law student Nathaniel Amendola proposes that such properties should give back … more
Flies »
- Tying The Surf Candy
You can tie a Surf Candy to imitate almost any baitfish, from a tiny one-inch baby sand eel to an eight-inch needlefish used for barracuda.
Tippets
- Tippets: Chris Santella Interview, Claude Bernard, Seagrass Secrets, Couch Cushion Flies
- Tippets: Asheville Tie-a-Thon, Do-It-Yourself Bamboo, 400 Steelhead Donated
- Tippets: New “Flymage,” Winter Fly Fishing in Florida, Izaak Walton League Turns 90, Dynamic Nymphing
- Tippets: “Brooke Trout” Spring Arrival Forecast, “Drinking Man’s Guide,” Boise Bull Trout, Steelhead Life Cycle
- Tippets: Atlantic Salmon Magic, Streamers365 Auction, Wild Steelhead Festival, Author Pat Dorsey, Pike Regs in Michigan
Gear »
- Retro Rod Review: Four Graphite Models that Changed the Fly Fishing World
A rod is still a rod, and in some cases, some graphite “classics” still have a look and feel that cannot be replaced, even by the very manufacturers that shelved these models in favor of the “faster, lighter” brands they replaced them with.
People »
- Tom McGuane: “A Passion For Tarpon”
Some of these younger guys I have fished with are phenomenally good guides—there is no question about it. But that yuppie deal is a long time wearing off.
Techniques »
- Bass on a Fly
If you are going to catch a bass, act like a bass. This doesn't mean you have to eat frogs and harass cute little baby ducks.
