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Editor’s Choice Awards | Best Hooks

Tue Mar 10th 2020
Gear Guide

Umpqua X-Series

 If we’re being honest, fly-fishing hooks are sort of like an anonymous cog in a well-oiled machine; they’re only noticed when they fail. That’s why it’s important to use quality hooks in your own tying, and Umpqua’s new X-Series is a great place to start. Developed with what they dub a BN5X, or black nickel 5 times, finish for extreme corrosion resistance, the X-Series hooks also feature a high carbon content, which not only makes the points sharper, but makes the hooks stronger as well. One feature we particularly like is the V-Lock Bend, which is a slight angle placed in the bend of the hook that, when combined with the Micro Barbs, results in less fish lost. The X-Series is available in Saltwater and Trout offerings, including some of Umpqua’s most popular models over the years.

Check ’em out online!

Featured Film | Querencia

Mon Mar 9th 2020
Videos

With support from Chevron Mining, Inc., the LOR Foundation, Trout Unlimited, and dedicated village leaders, Questa is building an economy based on outdoor recreation, traditional agriculture, and light industry. And though the finish line may be a ways off, the right pieces are falling into place, including a vibrant arts scene, the opening of a Questeño guide business and the Questa del Rio Colorado News, a monthly paper featuring creative takes on local events.

Before it could sell the world on its unique appeal, Questa has had to sell that appeal to itself. In restoring its church, Questa has remembered the vital importance of its traditional culture and the need to cherish and protect it as its economy evolves. Questa has rediscovered its mountains as cultural artifacts. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout that have fed its families and will generate tourism, the liquid snow that has darkened its alfalfa for cows, lambs and cabritos, these are culture too.

This is the Questa that Questa wants to be, for those will visit and the sons and daughters who’ll come home.

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Featured Artist | David Danforth

Mon Mar 9th 2020
Gear Guide

If you’ve attended any Fly Fishing Show in North America, you’ve likely run into David Danforth this year.  And, its not an encounter you would soon forget.  His artwork is a psychedelic mix of media and colour that is like nothing you have seen in the fly-world previously.  We have fallen hopelessly in love with more pieces than we have wall space to exhibit and we’re sure you will feel the same.

Check out David’s work and follow his cross-country journey on IG @reellocal

 

Featured Video | Reset: A Fly Fishing Story

Sat Mar 7th 2020
Videos

We believe that the best part of this sport is the stories behind those that are passionate about fish on the fly.  Jacob Mogler’s film Reset is one we are looking forward to seeing on the big screen in April!

 

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First Venture to Salt | Jordan Oelrich

Fri Mar 6th 2020
Tips & Techniques

“Eighty feet. Two o’clock. Go!” The cadence of my heart increased until I thought it was about to beat through my chest. With a tarpon visible against the cream-coloured bottom, I was told to make a backhand cast into a stiff crosswind and drop my fly on a target the size of a dinner plate. Right.

But they say even a blind horse finds water once in a while and my white Tarpon Toad whistled through the air and landed precisely where I had intended, with slightly more authority than I would have liked. The tarpon now had a tantalizingly presented fly resting less than three feet from the tip of its beak. Strip, strip, pause. Both my hands were shaking uncontrollably. The fish swam slowly towards the fly but decided this was not to be my lucky day, then it exited the wind-blown flat. Game over.

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Jig Sassi Solution

Thu Mar 5th 2020
Fly Tying

“I’m the first to admit that I’m not very skilled or experienced at European-style nymphing, but I am fascinated by the techniques, the flies and the people who are obsessed with it.  When they get into fishing this way they often don’t want to do anything else,”

Jig Sassi Solution

Hook: Jig hook, #12-16

Bead: Gold or copper tungsten slotted bead

Thread: Uni-Thread, black, 8/0

Body: Pheasant tail

Thorax: Bright orange or pink dubbing

Tail: Pheasant tail

Rib: Copper wire

Catch all of Jeremy’s Flies for Euro Nymphing in the Spring 2020 issue of Fly Fusion!  Pick up your copy or subscribe today!

Pretzel Caddis | Jake Vanderweyden

Wed Feb 12th 2020
Fly Tying

Hook – Firehole Sticks 315 #14-16

Bead – 3MM Round Tungsten

Thread – UTC 70D Black

Body – UTC Ultra Wire Chartreuse & Green

Thorax – Natural Rabbit Dubbing / Ice Dub Black Peacock

Fly Tied by Jake Vanderweyden

Check out all 6 patterns of Jake’s Spring Arsenal in Volume 17, Issue 2 – grab a copy of this back issue here today!

IF4 2019 Grand Prize

Fri Dec 6th 2019
Fly Fusion Offers & Updates

Don’t miss your chance to WIN a 2020 guided float with Bow River Fly Fishing Outfitters and an epic gear package from Orivs, Water Master, Scientific Anglers, Paxis, Fly Fusion and The International Fly Fishing Film Festival! Hurry, contest closes December 24, 2019!

Click Here to Enter Now!

Turneffe Flats Solar Panels

Fri Nov 22nd 2019
News

When it comes to green tourism and environmental sustainability, Turneffe Flats has long been one of the Caribbean’s most innovative fishing and diving resorts.  “Recently, we fired up our new off-grid solar system with 288 solar panels providing approximately 80% of our energy needs,” says founder and owner Craig Hayes.

Hayes estimates “the new system will replace 17,000 gallons of diesel fuel each year, and at $5 per gallon, this will result in substantial savings.  Recent improvements in solar technology, along with lower costs, finally made our project economically feasible.  When we started looking at this, the payback was around 20 years and now it’s closer to 10 years,” he notes.  “In addition to being the right thing to do, replacing diesel with the sun also makes good economic sense.”

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