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.
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-26-17 – Runoff is Here! This time of year, folks make their way to Durango for Memorial day weekend, only to find that many of our local rivers are blown out. While fisheries are high and muddy, there are still plenty of options to wet a line. With summer on…
Animas River Lunch Report May 3rd 2017 Dropping Spring Flows It’s May…and flows are dropping? Yep! Thanks to the cold stormfront we had this past week, flows dropped and fishing in SWCO is pretty good for the moment. Look for that to change later this week with higher flows. Check out our full…
Tying a Skinny Annelid for the San Juan River and Other Selective Trout The Annelid, or aquatic earthworm, is a staple on most of our guide trips headed to the San Juan River Quality Waters below Navajo Dam in northern New Mexico. The Quality Waters are a tailwater, and therefore year round water temps remain…
Animas Lunch Report – 4/26/17 – 2.0 It’s been a while for the ole Animas Lunch Report. Well we are taking the ALR to the next level; call it 2.0, call it a vlog, call it a fishing report, call it whatever you want. We will be bringing you the Animas Lunch Report weekly…in video…
Fly Tying Tutorial: Hot Wire Prince Nymph The Hot Wire Prince has been a go-to for a few of us the past few years. A simple, but extremely effective Prince Nymph variation, this bug gets down quick thanks to the wire and bead. Chances are you already have everything you need to tie this bug…
Hump Day Motivation: Yeti Presents-The Devils We needed some midweek motivation, and I have a feeling you might have too. Here is the latest film from Yeti: The Devils. This video is a great reminder that finding remote fish in the solitude of the wilds can be had almost anywhere if you know where to…
Fly Tying: 3 Extremely Simple Caddis Patterns The old fly tying adage is always: “I got into fly tying to save money…but that didn’t happen”. It’s understandable, there is so much cool stuff out there and new flies to tie, it’s hard to save money. We really get it. We work at a fly shop…
Fly Casting Double Haul – A How-to Video Do you have a saltwater trip planned for the winter and are concerned about busting out the big stick? Are you thinking of getting into the realm of fly fishing for pike? Or are you just wanting to become a more proficient caster at longer distances? Well,…
Trout Spey: Redington’s New Find Your Water Redington just dropped their newest Find Your Water episode, and it is safe to say that it got Rob and I little excited about the trout spey action. It pumped us up because this time of year, we become a little obsessive about swinging two handers for trout. We…
Redington Find Your Water: Alpine Rises The new Redington Find Your Water episode has dropped. Aptly named “Alpine Rises”, this video contains some beautiful shots of the Rocky Mountain backcountry, high mountain cutthroat trout, and our shop friends Ben and Anna fishing dry flies to their heart’s content. What is not mentioned is that this…
Animas Lunch Report – 8/25/15 – This is Why We Fly Growing up in Iowa, there were few opportunities to catch trout on a fly rod. Even at the age of 11, fly fishing and fly tying was an intense pastime of mine and remains to this day (my mother might call it a “passion”…
A Rainy Day Lunch Break Living and working in Durango affords us a lot of very close fishing opportunities. As you should know by now from our Animas Lunch Report blog series; we like to get out and fish on our lunch break. Last year (on a rainy day in May, much like today) I…
Sage Pulse Fly Rod Video The Sage Pulse, The Missouri River, dry fly fishing, Mark Raisler, and Headhunters Fly Shop. There is lots of awesome going on in this quick video so grab your morning coffee and sit back for a minute 45 and ease into your day. SHOP SAGE PULSE SHOP SAGE PULSE
Engler The video up, and it is incredible. Engler. From Yeti Coolers…
2015 Durango Fly Fishing Film Tour tickets available now at Duranglers for Saturday, April 4th. The Fly Fishing Film Tour is rolling around on Saturday, April 4th; the same day as Durangler’s Fly Fishing Fest! Make a day of fly fishing events and then top off the evening with a viewing of the Fly Fishing Film…
John an 18 inch creek trout this summer. Read out how to find fish like this for yourself in our Guide to Fly Fishing the High Country.
