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The Art of How to Present the Nymph

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Editor's Note: Below is a submission from TFO advisor Jason Randall. Enjoy. Since the dawn of time, at least angling-wise, anglers have embraced the need for drag-free dry-fly drifts. Only in more recent history, however, have anglers come to realize the importance of a natural drift while nymph fishing. Just...

Five Tips on How to Catch Tarpon

Conventional / Fly

The Gold Cup features the best of the best in tarpon fishing. The invitation-only tournament is one of the most prestigious events of the competitive fishing season. TFO advisor Rob Fordyce has set the standard for Gold Cup consistency with 13 second-place finishes, the last of which came earlier this...

Why You Should have this Game Changer

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The cliché is true: Necessity is the mother of invention. So is patience. And persistence. That was the path that TFO advisor Blane Chocklett endured to come up the Game Changer. You might think that the Roanoke, Va. guide cranked out this revolutionary baitfish fly in a few tying sessions....

The Axiom II Switch Steals the Show

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As a college athlete, Nicholas Conklin celebrated the joy of victory. Nearly a half dozen years later, he realized of one of the fundamental tenets of human nature. Winning never gets old. It still feels good, regardless of the stage. It doesn’t matter whether you play lacrosse or whether you...

It’s Back to School for Fly Fishermen

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Editor’s Note: Even though summer yields many opportunities to fly fish, we can all use quality instruction. Ohioans need to look no further than Mad River Outfitters, which runs the Midwest Fly Fishing School near Columbus. TFO editor Mike Hodge chatted with Brian Flechsig, who runs the school and the...

It’s Time for ICAST 2018

Conventional / Fly

It’s the second week of July. ICAST 2018 is here, and Temple Fork Outfitters will be among the vendors at the world’s largest sportfishing tradeshow. TFO has participated in ICAST since the 1990s, an annual event the company looks forward to every summer. “ICAST is an opportunity for TFO to...

How to Use the Inverted Loop Cast for Those Heavy Flies

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Editor’s Note: This is a story by TFO Advisor Bob Clouser. It was first published in the 2014-15 edition of the Loop Newsletter. To see Bob’s story in its original form as well as gather a wealth of other fly-casting info, you can access the Journal of Fly Casting Professionals...

The Complete Cast Can Help You Become a More Complete Angler

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It’s late June and getting warmer by the day, so the fishing in the North Carolina mountains has slowed to a trickle. Recent rains have filled the lakes to the brim, so our tailwater rivers are running full bore; and the mountain streams, while bulging, are a bit too warm...

The Predicament of Buying the Right Fly Line

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So you want to buy a fly line. Should be a snap, right? Not exactly. Not anymore. When I bought my first fly rod in the late 1980s, I found an affordable weight-forward, 5-weight fly line, bought it and began fishing. I didn’t know how to cast or even how...

A Tip of the Hat to Anglers and Their Mothers

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When the issue of women in fishing is brought up, the name Joan Wulff usually springs to mind. After all, she’s one of the premier fly casters and anglers --- male or female --- in the world, but here’s the thing that many of us gloss over when pondering women...

Out of the Stands and Into the Arena: A TFO Angler Steps Up at Spey-O-Rama

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After nearly a half dozen years of watching and wondering. Nicholas Conklin went from spectator to participant. Motivated by his inner athlete and words of wisdom from Mick Jagger, TFO’s director of sales for two-handed fly fishing hopped a plane to San Francisco, plucked down his $100 entry fee and...

Fifteen Minutes with DUN Magazine’s Jen Ripple

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Today’s topic is women in fly fishing. And there’s no better authority on that issue than DUN Magazine editor Jen Ripple. DUN's target audience is women who fly fish or want to fly fish. TFO blog editor Mike Hodge chatted with Jen about a handful of issues. Below are excerpts...