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Float & Fly for River Smallmouth Bass

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There is a lot of information out there on float and fly techniques for bass in the conventional fishing world. Most of those techniques are applied on lakes and reservoirs. The float and fly technique has been around the southeast for years, but river fishermen have mostly used conventional fishing...

TFO Two Handed Fly Rods & Fly Line Recommendations

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Confused by the multitude of two-handed or spey lines on the market? Don’t know what line you need for your TFO rod? We totally get it. As manufacturing processes continue to advance, and the divide between line designers and rod designers grows, it is becoming more and more difficult to...

TFO Wins Runner Up Awards at EFTTEX 2022

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Although the European Fishing Tackle & Trade Exhibition (EFTTEX) didn't take place in person this June, the organization still hosted a 2022 Digital Best New Product Showcase. What is EFTTEX? You can think of EFTTEX show as the European version of ICAST here in the states. The convention attracts some...

Chasing Dolly Varden in Alaska

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Alaska is known for some excellent salmon and steelhead fishing, but a species often overlooked is the Dolly Varden. Dolly Varden are typically gray accompanied by white, pink, or orange spots. They are very commonly confused with bull or brook trout, but in Alaska are actually part of the char...

Surf Fishing the Mid-Atlantic for Big Red Drum

Conventional

The days are getting shorter, and the air is getting cooler as the Northerly winds blow through.  For Mid-Atlantic surf casters this means it’s time to target big red drum in the surf! A large number of red drum migrate to Virginias Chesapeake Bay in the spring to spawn and...

Chasing Southern Appalachian Brook Trout

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Southern hospitality can entail many things. Sometimes it’s a made-from-scratch homemade meal, or maybe it’s a helping someone change a tire on the side of a two-lane highway. But sometimes, it’s sharing a special piece of water, far off the grid, where footprints from other anglers are almost nonexistent, and...

Walleye Trolling Tactics

Conventional

When trolling crankbaits for walleye, there are several key items to look at that you may not be paying attention to: How deep are the walleye’s you're trying to target? What are the walleye’s feeding on? How fast do you need to go to get a strike? These are just...

Season of the Hopper – A Monster White River Brown Trout Story

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“Can you hear me?” calls an Australian accent from behind me as another White River jon boat comes roaring past us at 8am. I quickly picked up my SA Bass Bug fly line and shoot another cast to the outside seam of a run that rides adjacent to a bank...