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…
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Frank Smethurst
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Frank Smethurst Frank Smethurst has been a frequent face in Colorado over the years. Well known guide and industry sales rep, Frank has gained…
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…
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Andrew Grillos
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Andrew Grillos It’s possible you may have heard the name Andrew Grillos before. You may have heard of Andrew through reading any number of…
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Juan “Hopper Juan” Ramirez
Tying and Designing Better Flies with Juan “Hopper Juan” Ramirez If you happen to be a Colorado fly fisher or fly tier, you may have heard of the “Hopper Juan”…
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…
Creations of Duranglers Open Fly Tying Night
Creations of Duranglers Open Fly Tying Night Politics, steelhead, Star Wars, the lottery, hunting, making your own rabbit dubbing, marketing, photography, travel, Donald Trump, guide beef, questionable fly tying materials…
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…
2015 Winter Fly Tying Events
2015 Winter Fly Tying Events This time of year kicks us into high gear for tying bugs. Replacing lost flies, stocking up for a trip, or just trying weird stuff;…
Mark Engler’s WD-40 Nymph
Mark Engler’s WD-40 Nymph Over the past 20 odd years, the WD-40 nymph has rose to prominence as one of the most effective flies for catching midge and blue winged olive…
Soft Hackle…Sunday? – Kyle’s Yellow and Rainbow
Soft Hackle…Sunday? – Kyle’s Yellow and Rainbow Soft hackle Sunday? Sure why not. Since we have not been too consistent with the Soft Hackle Saturday anyway, so we figured we…
Soft Hackle Saturday – Barr’s Graphic Caddis
Soft Hackle Saturday – Barr’s Graphic Caddis Listen to elitist self, thinking “that ain’t no soft hackle”. You are stuck in the past brah, welcome to the 21st century: where…
Soft Hackle Saturday: Peacock and Partridge
Soft Hackle Saturday: Peacock and Partridge Today’s installment of the Soft Hackle Saturday highlights the Peacock and Partridge. Also known as the Soft Hackle Peacock, this fly is wicked quick…
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…
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…
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…
Open Fly Tying Night, November 20th
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…
Duranglers First Open Fly Tying Night Announcement
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…
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…