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 this beginner’s guide before continuing on… So you are now a streamer junkie (or an aspiring one). How about a little more streamer theory, lore,…
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 box. I was late to the party. I scoffed at the thought of these synthetic fibers fishing anywhere close to natural materials, the likes…
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 never exceeds about 8 feet or so. None-the-less, very intriguing. Click the image to read the full article: Source: Fix.com
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 am currently standing knee deep in a southwestern Colorado river the color of a delicious cambric tea. The sun is shining but it doesn’t cut…
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 textured thin mylars with a specially treated edge for winding. It was designed to make quick baitfish patterns by tying in the material and giving…
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 bins with the bugs that seem to sell or get lost quickest. Since we are guiding and fishing the San Juan River most often,…
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 of learning from each other. This is a meeting of the minds: an excuse to get out of the house, get behind the vise, and…
It’s that time again. 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 of learning from each other. This is a meeting of the minds: an excuse to get out of the house, get…
The first installment of Duranglers Open Fly Tying night will be Thursday, November 6th at 6:00 PM. Hard to believe but Winter is quickly approaching. And that means it’s TIME TO TIE FLIES! Well, for us at Duranglers, tying time never really ended…but now is time to re-fill those boxes with proven patterns and new…
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 to dive headfirst into the fly tying blog underworld this fall and winter. Until then, here are (in our opinion) the 5 Best Fly Tying Blogs…
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 and this stuff looks and fishes incredible This pattern works great on San Juan River tailwater as well as our local still waters. It is…
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 Animas is at 1,130cfs, as I type, and dropping into premo streamer conditions. Get out your 6 and 7 weights, heavy tippet, and big…
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 bluish/purple are the last to lose their color at depth. Some say it’s just something new the fish haven’t seen. Some say it’s just a…
