Smith Integrated Sunglass Leash Installation
Smith Integrated Sunglass Leash Did you know that select models of Smith Optics are now coming with an integrated leash? Instead of purchasing an aftermarket croakie retainer, these sunglasses come…
Winter Fishing: The Most Important Part of Your Rig
Winter Fishing: The Most Important Part of Your Rig Look at this photo. There are a few winter essentials being show here…however which one do you think is the most important?…
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Matt Bennett
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Matt Bennett Author’s note: this is the first installment of an ongoing blog series titled “Tying and Designing Better Flies” where I will be…
5 For Fall
5 For Fall If Buzzfeed can make lists of cool/random stuff, why can’t we? Here is a list of 5 things that are get us all sorts of excited for…
2015 Grip N Grin Guide
2015 Grip N Grin Guide We realized something: You go to all the trouble of surfing fly fishing websites, attempting to find the best information on rivers, flies, gear, terminal…
Tarpon Diaries – Lessons and After Action Report
Tarpon Diaries – Lessons and After Action Report If you have not gathered from my previous posts, this was my first time fly fishing for tarpon. In all actuality, this…
Duranglers June Monthly Report – The Dawn of Summer
Duranglers June Monthly Report – The Dawn of Summer Despite the February-like May, the dawn of summer is almost upon us. June is game time for fly fishing in Durango…
Fly Fishing During Runoff
Fly Fishing During Runoff Don’t let the flows get you down, check out our guide to fly fishing during runoff featured on durango.org! You too can find fish during the season…
Fishing With Streamers: Switch it Up
Fishing With Streamers: Switch it Up Last year, we brought you our Beginner’s Guide to Streamer Fishing. If you are new to the streamer game, I would suggest you read…
Fly Tying With EP Fibers – Not Just for Saltwater
Fly Tying With EP Fibers – Not Just for Saltwater In the Saltwater fly fishing world, Enrico Puglisi (EP) and his fly patterns have a stranglehold on everyone’s mind and…
Duranglers Fly Fishing Festival 2015
FRIDAY APRIL 3, 2015 Double Tree Hotel, Animas Room Social 6:30-7:00 / Presentation 7:00-8:30PM Captain Jamie Allen “Transitioning From Freshwater To Saltwater” Jamie is a former Durango resident who moved to…
The Bluemouth – Early Season Pike Fishing
The Bluemouth – Early Season Pike Fishing Captain Mark Engler has noticed that some of the first pike of the year have blue mouths. Mark is our resident pike master here…
A Beginner’s Guide to San Juan River Fly Fishing
San Juan River Fly Fishing: it’s a daily topic here at Duranglers. “How is the Juan doing?” or “Whats the recent report for the San Juan?” or “How is the…
Fly Color Selection
Here is a great article from fix.com regarding how important fly color selection is when fishing. One thing to keep in mind is most fly fishing for trout in rivers…
Fly Tying: The Soft Hackle Nymph
It’s raining. Or it’s snowing. It’s one of the two, but I can’t tell. All I know is that I am wet and cold. It’s the beginning of October. I…
Fly Tying: Hareline’s Baitfish Emulator Flash
Hareline’s Baitfish Emulator Flash Hareline’s Baitfish Emulator Flash is a material we started carrying in the shop this past year. Baitfish emulator flash was created with a nice mix of differently…
January 2015 Fly Fishing Report
January 2015 Fly Fishing Report Winter: we are in the heart of it now. With the holiday season behind us, many have organized and hung up their rods and waders. Spending hours…
Fly Tying: The San Juan Worm
Winter, tying season. It’s cold outside, so more of our fishing time has turned to tying time. At home or here in the shop, we are refilling our boxes and…
Fly Boxes: What We Like and Why
Fly Boxes: What We Like and Why We’ve been seeing a lot of guys in the shop gearing up for the tying season. We are too, especially during Duranglers open…
A Beginner’s Journey Into Steelheading: After Action Report and Lessons Learned
A Beginner’s Journey Into Steelheading: After Action Report and Lessons Learned I Went Steelhead Fishing I should have taken the advice before I went. Or not. I can’t decide yet. Either…
The 5 Best Fly Tying Blogs You Should be Following
Kyle and I have been throwing around the idea of getting a lot more fly tying here on the Duranglers’ blog. We have had a few installments, but are hoping…
Corqs Strike Indicators Review
Corqs Strike Indicators have become one of the more interesting products we are carrying this fall. Made out of cork, these indicators are a throwback to the old style cork…
A Beginner’s Journey Into Steelheading: Relax and Practice
I am currently sitting at just over a week away from heading out to Oregon. Steelhead fever hasn’t taken me fully. I am not sure it could until I actually…
A Beginner’s Journey Into Steelheading: Advice
My journey has been set. Dates booked, reservations made, equipment gathering is in full force. I am going steelheading. Since my first post went live a few weeks ago; I…
September Durango Fly Fishing Forecast
September Durango Fly Fishing Forecast The end of Summer has begun. As melancholy as some feel, it is a fact we all have to face. The height of summer dry fly…