2018 Fly Fishing Resolutions 2018 is here. It’s a weird vibe, if I am honest. I don’t think I was ready for it. It’s easy to think of it as another year gone, but it might be better to think of it as having another year to look forward to. Another year to plan. Another set…
Sage – Swing Season – The Slowdown With no fish “hero shots” to speak of in this video from our friends over at Sage…it’s still very entertaining and worth your time if you have ever thought to yourself “steelhead might be cool to catch”. It’s the small part everyone plays with their daily decisions of…
Duranglers Flash Sale Day 4: Fly Tying Materials It’s time to stock up for the winter tying season! Our 4rd flash sale this week is going on all day today (Thursday, December 7th) and is a great way to load up (or load someone else up) on all materials you will need to craft those secret patterns..…
Duranglers Flash Sale Day 3: Stickers and Decals Stickers and decals: the best way to decorate your truck, boat, tying cave, or cooler. It’s custom art on the cheap! Our 3rd flash sale this week is going on all day today (Wednesday, December 6th) and is a great way to save on some beautiful stocking stuffers.…
Duranglers Flash Sale Day 2: Fly Fishing Books! Even in this digital age where seemingly endless knowledge is available at our fingertips, fly fishing books still hold many secrets. From fly tying, to beginner techniques, to guidebooks, to casting, to entomology, to just good ole fly fishing literature; there is nothing like cracking the spine on “analog” fly fishing…
December Flash Sale Week So we wanted to kick off the first week of December by doing something a little different. Each day this week, we are going to have a different flash sale for the Holidays. We will have a new opportunity every day to save 20% on some of your favorite fly fishing gear…but…
Rio Behind the Brand – Simon Gawesworth If there is only one thing you watch today, let it be this beautiful video. You may or may not have heard the name of Simon Gawesworth, but hopefully, you remember it after this. The single hand snake roll at 4:35 will haunt your dreams.
Animas Lunch Report – 11-27-17 – Holiday Troutin I wouldn’t exactly call it a tropical heat wave…but I wouldn’t call it November weather either. Call it a haunting of the Indian Summer, call it global warming…call it what you want. The weather has been warm lately, reaching 60 degrees during the day. This has set…
Holiday Gift Ideas for People You Like and Don’t Hate Holiday shopping, fun fun fun! We all know how that goes…it doesn’t sometimes. In this day in age, the default go-to is a gift card: “Buy yourself something with my money because I don’t actually know you well enough to pick it out myself!” It’s…
Straight Out of the Hatch Reels Custom Shop… Limited edition Orange and Blue Hatch reels for those living in Broncos country! Coming up on the Holiday season, these bad boys make for a Christmas present for the Broncos fan/fly fishing junkie in your life. These Gen 2 Hatch Plus Finatic reels are new this year and…
Wired Stonefly – Pat’s Rubberlegs Variation Tying Tutorial The Wired Stonefly is an amazing Umpqua signature fly pattern from the mind of Brad Befus that drops quick into the depths of any river. Stonefly nymphs are a must-have here in Colorado where ever stones are present (and even where they are not). This is our…
Animas Lunch Report – 10/27/17 – The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today It’s fall dudes. Actually, fall is almost half over. It feels weird, like the opposite of Deja Vu; “How are we here now? shouldn’t it still be summer?” Because of that, we have something important to tell you. It will probably…
New and Notable Gear For Fall Brisk days and crunching leaves underfoot. Browns are maneuvering and posturing. Elk are bugling. Pumpkin spice everything abounds at the grocery store. It’s Fall. This time of year, after the height of the summer Colorado trout excitement, things tend to slow down a little bit and we find ourselves able to take…
Animas Lunch Report – 8/30/17 – Recent Catches How has the fishing been lately? A little like this…
Animas Lunch Report – 8-23-17 – Macabre Pictures Running through a few photos from this past summer, I came across a handful that were worth a second look. Reminders of the finite nature of our existence, these photos expose the mortal nature of our lives. Some of these you may find calming, while others are downright…
Animas River Lunch Report – 8-21-17 – Total Eclipse of the Report So if it isn’t evident by now…we have been pretty swamped and have not had much opportunity to bring to the masses our usually consistent Animas Lunch Report. We kicked off our video reports….and then fell off the map. Summer hits like that around…
Thursday Motivation: Mental Baby Poons Is Thursday slogging along? Take a minute out of your day to recharge with this ridiculously sweet video from RepYourWater and Livit Films featuring some of the most fun fish on the planet.
River Trash: Big Problems, Small Solutions Don’t be trash, pick it up instead! The growing issue of trash in and around our waterways was brought to my attention in force a few weeks back while I was fishing with a buddy in the Kremmling area. We locked down a beautiful run, and began the conquest…
Rob and Andy’s Excellent Florida Adventure Up on the Redington blog today is a the story and recap of a trip Rob and I took to Florida this past March. Tarpon, snook, and questionable watercraft choices. Check it out here: Redington: Burning Both Ends of the Florida Candle Also make sure you look up Captian Jamie Allen when…
The Mountain Wilds Await – Duranglers August Fly Fishing Report The alarm always comes quicker than hoped, between the hours of “really dark” and “still dark”, when the only “dark” you want to hear about is the coffee. Times like these, the fringes of sanity are tested as multiple pre-dawn hours behind the wheel only…
4th Of July Sage Fly Rods Close Out With liberty and justice for all! Happy 4th of July, hope it is a good one! To kick off our love for living in the United States, we just put a whole heap of Made in America Sage fly rods on sale. We have done a few…
The 4th of July is for Celebrating America ‘Merica! ‘Murica! ‘Merica! USA! USA! USA! The 4th of July is almost here! Booyah! Durango is absolutely bustling with activity this week. The 4th of July week is the busiest week of the year here in our corner of Colorado. This might as well be considered the…
Animas River Lunch Report – 6-23-17 – The Longest, Fastest Day So it has been a few weeks since we last put out an Animas Lunch Report. The plan was to transition over to video reports; but as plans usually go, life happened. Well, more specifically, Duranglers summer life happened. We have been rocking full…
Clouds of Bugs – Duranglers June Fly Fishing Report As seriously cliche as it is…it’s still hard to believe that June is here. You know what else is kind of hard to believe: it looks like peak flows on our local waters crept up on us a few days ago and now we are on the…
Did We Just See Peak Flows? It seems we did just see peak flows, only time will tell over the next few days. However, our daily peak today did not reach the height yesterday. Plus, it looks like our snowpack is sitting at exactly the yearly average. We could be seeing the downslope of runoff…
