Tippets: Kreh’s First Reel, Top Ten Winter Flies, “Strip-Set” Book Review

November 27, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • View history on display via the Orvis blog. See Lefty Kreh’s first fly reel, purchased in 1947, thanks to The American Museum of Fly Fishing and the ongoing “Museum Pieces” series.
  • Kyle Wilkinson of Trouts Fly Fishing outlines his top 10 fly picks for winter fishing Colorado’s Front Range waters. “Nymphing through the winter is the most consistent way to produce fish day-in and day-out,” he writes.
  • On Hatch Magazine, George C. Costa offers a good review of the newly released book Strip-Set: Fly-Fishing Techniques, Tactics, Patterns for Streamer by George Daniel from Stackpole/Headwaters Books.