Author Archives: Marshall Cutchin
Video: How to Tie the Rainbow Warrior
Tim Flagler ties a Rainbow Warrior in this week’s featured fly tying video. Despite the fact that this fly seems to look like nothing trout eat, Team USA member Lance Egan proved its effectiveness by using it as his go-to fly …
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How to Tie the Mercury Midge
Tim Flagler ties Pat Dorsey’s Mercury Midge in this week’s featured fly tying video. “I know some people who use them year-round,” says Flagler, “but for me Pat Dorsey’s creation is kind of a quintessential winter midge pattern.”
Video: How to Tie a Copper Zebra Midge
Tim Flagler ties a Copper Zebra Midge in this week’s featured fly tying video. Tim includes come excellent tips for working with tiny beads, using Ultra-Wire for ribs on a small hook, and properly orienting herl on the body.
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Making Do with Perfection
Here we are in the peak of sight-casting season in New Zealand–an appropriate time to reveal another excellent piece of writing by Derek Grzelewski, a writer, photographer and adventurer whose The Trout Dairies one of the better pure fishing books … more
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Video: Hardy Introduces the “Artisan” Fly Rod
An interview with George Anderson of YellowstoneAngler.com regarding the new Artisan Hardy Rods incorporating 3M Sintrix technology. With Hardy’s Howard Croston and Jim Murphy.
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Abel Reels Acquired by Private Investor Group
Abel Reels was acquired by private investors The Mayfly Group on December 31, 2012. The Mayfly Group is headquartered in Nevada, and it states its mission as “to create, acquire and partner with top consumer outdoor manufacturers, distributors, and brands … more
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Video: The Aerial Mend
Carl McNeil demonstrates one of the more advanced casting techniques we’ve covered, the Aerial Mend. Though it requires more precise timing than a reach or wiggle cast, it does offer more accuracy and more control over how much slack is put …
Poetry by Robert DeMott: “The Fires Last Summer”
Robert DeMott is kind enough to let us share his most recent poem, which arrived in the form of a Christmas card yesterday. It draws from the imagery of the western U.S. tinderbox of this last summer and helps bring … more
Tying a Bead Head Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail
This week’s fly tying video features Matt Grobert tying a winter-time classic, the Bead Head Soft Hackle Pheasant Tail. This pattern is a jack of all trades: swing it, drift it, or do a little of both–it performs in just …
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Hope Notes
“In a dark time the eye begins to see.” —Theodore Roethke Fishing is about perception. Its mysteries are tied to our desire to penetrate the surface and see what we cannot see, and the joy of becoming a better angler … more →