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Broken fly rods are a fact of life, but there are things you can do to stop it from happening to you. It happens to all of us. We all know the sinking feeling of holding that treasured favorite fly rod, shattered in our hands. Most of us can’t help...

In the recently published, Founder's Flies by Mike Valla (a very good read by he way, worth the space in anyone's library), is this following photo, showing Dan Bailey with his favorite fly rod. This is an Orvis 8'0", 4 3/8 ounce, 6 WT., model Battenkill...

Tips and patterns for catching exotic panfish—and some home-grown sluggers. By Ron Kowalyk Invasive, yes. But Mayan cichlids and their kin sure are great fun on the fly! If you are like me, you’ll remember days as a kid when every fish...

While Japanese master craftsmen command up to $100,000 for turning bamboo into a fishing pole, aspiring younger makers can barely find anyone to train them. And this isn’t the only time-honored Japanese crafts at the brink of extinction. How could this...

This past year I started getting more interested in fly fishing as well as fishing in general. I’m not the type of guy who stays awake at night thinking about fishing, so my needs are simple. After some research I put together a spinning set up that...