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RIO: How to Fish Out of a Flats Boat

Fri Oct 12th 2018
Tips & Techniques
Videos
In this final episode of RIO’s second season of “How To” videos, RIO sales manager, Zack Dalton talks about “How To Fish Out Of A Flats Boat/Skiff”. In this film Zack explains how to orientate yourself in a flats boat, and how important it is to know the “clock face” directional method that guides around the world use to point out fish. In addition, this film goes over the really important duties and responsibilities an angler has when they are not fishing, and waiting for their turn to get up on the boat and fish.
If you are going on your first trip in a flats boat – for whatever species, this film will make sure you know how to maximize your day in the boat, whether when fishing, or when waiting for your turn.
RIO’s “How To” videos are a series of short films that explain all you need to know to learn a particular way to fish, or cast. Where applicable, each film talks through the gear that you need, shows how to rig the gear, how to read the water, and how to fish that particular technique. These educational films are packed with information and top tips designed to improve the knowledge and skill level of all fly fishers. Each one is bought to you by a RIO employee or a RIO brand ambassador.
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Backpacks & Roadmaps

Thu Oct 11th 2018
News
Couple of good friends of Fly Fusion, John Van Vleet and Tiffany Barber, are hitting the open road and will be journalling their adventures through a new travel website called Backpacks & Road Maps. We plan to live vicariously through their adventures and encourage you to join us in following this epic husband and wife team. Just a couple of outdoor lovers from Montana, they can’t get enough of life on the road. Follow along on all of their adventures, with travel reports, tips, and photography highlights from destinations all around the world. #backpacksandroadmaps

The Western Coachman

Wed Oct 10th 2018
Fly Tying

       The story of Wayne “Buz” Buszek and his Western Coachman begins in the 1930s. Buz began fly fishing the local streams of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains as a young boy. His abilities as a fly tier and fly fisher developed quickly, thanks to guidance from the local “old timers.” He excelled, developing into an exacting and innovative fly tier, a skilled fly fisher, and a “mountain goat of a hiker.”

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Fly Fusion Series: Lost!

Mon Oct 8th 2018
Fly Fusion Series
Videos

Fly Fusion Magazine editors Derek Bird and Jim McLennan look for as much information as they can find on a remote section of river and find nothing, which is exactly what they hoped to find. In this episode the hosts explore a Rocky Mountain drainage that holds cutthroat and bull trout, and both are eager to take a well-placed dry.

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A week of #flyfishingart

Mon Oct 1st 2018
Inspiration
A photographer, an artist, a filmmaker, a beard connoisseur and a true character, Marc Crapo (aka @vonbeardly) is a man of many talents.  His photography holds a special place on many walls in our office.  No fin and grins here – these are special glimpses into the mind of an individual who just plain sees the world in a different way.
Check out some more of the art we proudly hang at Fly Fusion headquarters by visiting @flyfusionmag on Facbook or IG.

Circus Peanut | Al Ritt

Thu Sep 27th 2018
Fly Tying
Tips & Techniques

Throwback to the first season of the Fly Fusion Series with Al Ritt on the vise. Filmed on location at Island Lake Lodge, nestled in the heart of the Rockies in the Kootenay region of British Columbia.

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Throwback Thursday

Thu Sep 20th 2018
Fly Fusion Series

Great times on set of the very first season of the Fly Fusion Series. On this particular day Paula Shearer – the hardest working angler of all time – found herself in a battle with a stunning bull trout while filming episode five, “Solitude”. Watch the full episode, including footage of this epic monster, on flyfusionstreaming.com

Fly Fusion Series: Season Three Begins!

Mon Sep 17th 2018
Fly Fusion Series
News
Videos

Join Fly Fusion Magazine Editors Derek Bird and Jim McLennan for season three of the wildly popular Fly Fusion Series as they explore the prairies and East slope of the Rocky Mountains. Confronted by back-country closures and wildfires the hosts embrace mounting challenges and find themselves lost, but in the right direction, while exploring new and familiar water for willing trout.

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Fly Fusion Series: Treasure Hunters

Mon Sep 17th 2018
Fly Fusion Series
Videos

The latest episode, “Treasure Hunters”, from the Fly Fusion Series has just been released! In this first episode Fly Fusion Magazine editors Derek Bird and Jim McLennan pursue some of the west’s most treasured trout – Bow River rainbows. For Jim this is his home water. He’s fished and guided on the river for a good portion of his life, so he makes the task of locating large trout look effortless. Derek, on the other hand, ends up botching a few takes before finding himself in step with the river’s cadence.

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Season Three Launch: Four Days Away!

Thu Sep 13th 2018
Fly Fusion Offers & Updates
Only four days until the digital launch of season three of the Fly Fusion Series!! The series captures the experiences that make a fly-fishing trip more than just catching fish. Fly fishing connects the individual to others, to generations, to fish, and to environments. This season we find the guys lost in the right direction.
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