5 Ways to Pass a Quarantine With Fly Fishing
These are not easy times, and everyone is feeling the cabin fever and squeeze of businesses closing their doors, social distancing, quarantines, shelter in place, and everything else that goes…
Craft Fur Baitfish (with hollow tie) – Fly Tying With Matt Bennett
Craft Fur Baitfish (with hollow tie) – Fly Tying With Matt Bennett Matt Bennett is one of the most innovative fly designers these days. From Texas Hill Country bass to…
Animas Lunch Report – July 18th – Monsoons Have Come
Animas Lunch Report – July 18th – Monsoons Have Come On this rendition of the Animas Lunch Report: the heat is hitting us here in Durango…but so is the RAIN!!! …
Wired Stonefly – Pat’s Rubberlegs Variation Tying Tutorial
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…
Fly Tying Tutorial: Hot Wire Prince Nymph
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…
Flymen Repost: The messy fly tyer’s guide to organizing fly tying materials.
Flymen Repost: The messy fly tyer’s guide to organizing fly tying materials. Needing some help organizing your tying space? Check out the recent blog post from our friends over at…
New Additions to the Fly Tying Arsenal
New Additions to the Fly Tying Arsenal Here at the shop when it comes to flies, many people tend to lean towards the side of tradition. Even though we bring…
Animas Lunch Report – 3/16/16 – Spring Flowers Are Not Out Yet But BWOs Are
Animas Lunch Report – 3/16/16 – Spring Flowers Are Not Out Yet But BWOs Are I happened to venture to the Animas for a lunch sesh of lobbing heavy meat around…
New Fly Tying Materials You Should Know About
New Fly Tying Materials You Should Know About Here at Duranglers, we are always on the lookout for new and innovative fly tying materials that can add something interesting to…
The Stupid Fast Caddis
The Stupid Fast Caddis Playing around with a few new materials here at the Duranglers Shop, I came up with the Stupid Fast Caddis. It’s stupid fast because you can…
Coming Soon – Kreinik Flash
Coming Soon – Kreinik Flash So these look more like Christmas ornaments than actual flies…but it turns out The Kreelex is one of the hottest streamer patterns on the Missouri…
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…
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: 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…
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…
Open Fly Tying Night December 18
We will be in the shop tying our own bugs and we hope you come and do the same. Although this is not an instruction night, there will still be plenty…
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…
Simi Seal Leech
Tying the Simi Seal Leech Duranglers shop manager Kyle tied up a few Simi Seal Leech patterns the other day. We just got some Simi Seal dubbing in the shop…
Duranglers Tying Bench: WOOL!
Well we’ve sure gotten what we wished for (and then some) in terms of rain! But that’s a good thing… Fall should be great. Lets all pray for good bugs!…
The Tying Bench: Purple Products
Across the West, the color purple has certainly been the popular tendency of many fly anglers. Dries, Nymphs, Streamers, you name it. Some say the colors on the spectrum around…